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
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
