observability Observability: Epsagon Epsagon was one of the KubeCon sponsors this year that caught my eye. They have a tracing suite with a free tier that seemed interesting. One can track a thousand traces a month
Container Registry AliCloud: Container Registry I created an AliCloud account a long time back to test their initial K8s offering but never figured out the UI. I went back to see what they had to offer by way
Container Registry Container Registries: IBM Cloud I have yet to try IBM Cloud and decided with Docker’s latest rate limiting on free accounts, it might be worth looking into alternate stores for containers. IBM Cloud has a small
k8s Kubernetes onPrem: Getting Started It started as getting a wonderful old retired MacBook Pro from my brother. I thought "Why not make a real x86 k8s cluster?". Using K3s is easy so let's get started. For the
Azure Azure DevOps: VM Deployment Environments A topic that has come up a few times lately, in regards to YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps, is how to use Environments for non-containerized workloads. Most of to whom I speak are
Chef Chef Habitat: Getting started Recently, a colleague asked me about Hashi Waypoint and how it related to Chef Habitat. While familiar with Chef's other products, I wasn't with "Habitat". What exactly is Chef Habitat and how does
AKS VS Code: Bridge to Kubernetes I was encouraged by a colleague to checkout Microsoft’s “Bridge to Kubernetes”, a Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code extension and pattern for live debugging kubernetes services. The idea is that you can
AKS Hashi Waypoint Hashicorp had HashiConf 2020 virtually this year. The two day conference debuted two new products, Hashi Boundary and Hashi Waypoint. The former is an Identity at the perimeter solution and the later is
AKS Vault on Kubernetes: Part 2 - Multiple k8s, templates and external IPs Let’s keep going with what we started last week. This week I’ll show how to format secrets for various database engines, expose Vault with a public IP and load balancer and
vault Vault on Kubernetes: Getting Started Hashi Vault has long been a leader in secret management and has had a Kubernetes Helm Chart now for a year. I've been meaning to get back to Vault for some time and
AKS Kubernetes Serverless: OpenFaaS When reviewing Serverless Kubernetes offerings over the last weeks, several sources suggested giving OpenFaaS a second look despite being one of the newer options in the space. Alex Ellis started OpenFaaS back in
AKS Kubernetes Serverless: Kubeless Kubeless is another of the popular CNCF recognized Kubernetes Serverless offerings. It’s a Bitnami supported project that has been around since late 2016. It bills itself as “a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that
Getting Started Kubernetes Serverless: fission.io Following last week's post on Knative, I thought I should check out one of the other popular serverless framework for k8s, fission.io. Fission, unlike KNative just focuses on the code. This means
AKS Kubernetes Serverless: KNative Knative is a platform to bring serverless workloads to Kubernetes. With Knative, one can create the equivalent of Azure or GCP Functions and Amazon Lambdas in K8s. More concretely, this allows one to
AKS Containerized COBOL, Pascal and a Perl based BBS Following last week's post, the very first question I was asked was "What about COBOL"? In this week's post we will not only cover COBOL, but we'll show Pascal in a container and
AKS Containerized FORTRAN in Kubernetes While there are guides to creating FORTRAN containers to solve local builds, I felt it would be a great logical followup to try and make a containerized microservice using FORTRAN. More importantly, could
Azure Getting Started with Packer and AzDO Lately I've been in many conversations about how to use Packer, especially how to use Packer with Azure Pipelines and Cloud endpoints. There are some good Getting Started trainings with Packer and Vagrant
AKS Kubernetes, SSL and Cert-Manager Recently the topic came up about how to procure valid SSL certificates for a colleague’s project. I knew I had used an earlier version of cert-manager in a post about self host
krew K8s and Krew : RBAC utilities While I cannot recall how I came across krew, it’s been in the back of my mind to check it out. I was aware that it contained a solid library of plugins
Azure Notifications: Email with Logic Apps Love them or hate them, email notifications are a topic nearly every project needs to solve. Having to trigger them from Azure has come up multiple times in the last week which prompted
Azure DevOps Diagrams as Code: Mermaid While i’ve been using Mermaid diagrams for some time, i realize not everyone knows what they are or how best to use them. I’ll work through how you can have diagrams
Datadog Datadog for DevOps : Metrics, Dashboards and Logs Last time I talked about Datadog it was to focus on how Datadog helps us track deployments into AKS and tie to Azure DevOps data from builds. Today I want to dig in
k8s Codespaces While i have signed up for the new Codespaces feature in Github and am awaiting enrollment, we can explore codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online, which Microsoft also first called VSTS, now Azure DevOps)
AKS Helm 3 : Creating and Sharing Charts Helm offers a fantastic way to install charts in a repeatable way, but often it can seem daunting to get started creating charts. And once one has charts, there are a variety of
Azure DevOps Whitesource Bolt for AzDO and Github On recommendations from a colleague, I decided to checkout Whitesource Bolt which was recently made free for developers and demo’ed at Microsoft Build 2020. It integrates natively with Azure DevOps and Github.
