dapr Dapr Part 4: Service Discovery and Bindings We've covered pubsub and secrets in detail. Dapr can also provide service-to-service discovery and routing much like istio (less the encryption). Dapr's binding component allows us to route to external services for input
dapr Dapr Part 3: Digging into Secrets Dapr provides a basic but very functional secrets abstraction component we can use in our services. In our last topic we furthered the pub/sub knowledge with a custom perl subscriber. Today we
Dapr Part 2: Sprinkle a little Perl We started out last week with Dapr and followed the getting started tutorials. At that time we experimented with local containerized installs of Dapr as well as Kubernetes through AKS. This week we
dapr Dapr: Getting started A colleague of mine has several times asked me about Dapr and what I thought. Dapr finally released a 1.0 in February this year and I figured it was time to give
k0s K0s: Mirantis' tiny k8s distro I was chatting with some folks from Mirantis about Lens and some of their offerings and they highly encouraged me to try out K0s ("K Zeros"). This week I took some time to
logging LogDNA: Logging and Alerting LogDNA has been around about six years and I became familiar with them at DevOps Days in Minneapolis 3 years ago. Their offering has matured a lot since then and it was time
hashicorp Terraform and Azure DevOps: Awesome. It's always fun when two things I really like come together. I was thrilled to see the news out of Ignite from one my favourite companies, Hashicorp that it added support for one
KEDA Revisiting Kubernetes and KEDA Let's revisit KEDA (Kubernetes Event Drive Autoscaling) and Azure Functions. We looked into this last March and did a hello world sample using Dockerhub and a simple function. Since then, Azure Function Core
Azure DevOps Azure DevOps: Secrets in Files We've discussed AKV and Hashi Vault, but one simple pattern for secrets storage and decimation is to use encrypted file storage. While not as elegant, it can be more than sufficient, fast and
AKS Chef: Getting Started Chef has been around a long time as is definitely a key player in deployment suites. What started out as OpsCode over a decade ago is now part of Progress Software. They have
Azure DevOps Private SSH Git with Azure DevOps This is more a short story of getting nerdy with a NAS. I wanted to figure out if I could really host a GIT repo locally on my NAS for private work or
nomad Nomad: Getting Started There is one Hashi Tool I really haven't dived into much and that is Nomad. Nomad has been the Hashi product for deployments, containerized and otherwise for a while and some large companies
hashicorp Terraform Cloud: Getting Started Hashicorp has had the Terraform Cloud offering now for the last year. It’s been something I really wanted to try since HC 2019. Interest was so high at that time, there was
iis Azure DevOps: Deploying to IIS with Windows VM Environments In Azure DevOps we’ve covered plenty with linux deployments and containerized workloads. But at times we may need to deploy to a set of Windows hosts, especially if we need to support
Azure DevOps Azure DevOps Pull Request Checks One of the nice features of Azure DevOps Repos is the ability to control Pull Requests with PR Policies. Policies such as minimum number of reviewers, PR build checks, comment response and Work
Azure DevOps Azure DevOps Agent Pools: The Power of VMSS Most recently in conversation with my colleague Jason, I brought up the power of VMSS backed agents. I covered them in my WhizLabs course, but haven’t discussed them, to date, here in
rollbar Rollbar: Getting Started What is Rollbar? They bill themselves as the Continuous Code Improvement Platform with real time AI-assisted workflows.Interestingly enough I found them through a mobile advert and subsequently signed up on my phone.
Oracle Oracle Cloud: VMs, K3s, and Container Registry There is one cloud I’ve avoided. I have feelings about their business policies and treatment of the open source community. However, since Oracle is buying Tik Tok to leverage their Cloud, I
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
