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.
Arc Azure Arc for Kubernetes Azure Arc for Kuberentes has finally gone out to public preview. Like Arc for Servers, Arc for Kubernetes let’s us add our external kubernetes clusters, be them on-prem or in other clouds
Clickup ClickUp and Gitlab: Let's do OAuth2 (Part 2) In our first blog entry we showed how we could create a ClickUp project, Gitlab repo and setup basic notifications. We now want to actually create a basic Oauth2 flow using NodeJS. We
Clickup ClickUp, FB Workplace and Gitlab: (Part 1) While I’ve made no bones I’m an Azure DevOps fan and use it for all my work, not everyone has the warm feelies for Microsoft as I do. So what other
stategery Operationalization in Day 2 Operations In the world of Operations, there is a tenant of supportability called Operationalization. This is a method of measurement used when a tool or system moves from Proof of Concept (POC), past Early
Pipelines Azure DevOps : Templates and Integrating Teams Notifications Now that we have YAML pipelines, one powerful feature we’ll want to leverage is the use of templates. Templates are the YAML equivalent of Task Groups - you can take common sets
AKS DataDog: Kubernetes and AzDO In our exploration of Logging and Metrics tooling, one company/product worth checking out is Datadog. It's been around since 2010 and is one of the larger offerings with over 350 integrations out
Azure DevOps Azure DevOps: Debt, Pipelines and YAML Let’s talk about why I spent $40 this month because of DevOps debt. That’s right, even yours truly can kick the can on some processes for a while and eventually that
AKS AKS and NewRelic As we look at various APM and Logging tools, one suite that deserves attention is NewRelic. New Relic is not a new player, having been founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne (anagram of
Getting Started Azure Arc for Servers (Preview) Azure Arc is a preview feature for Azure that will let you manage in Azure resources outside of Azure. So far they’ve discussed Arc for databases, servers and Kubernetes. I was recently
AKS AKS and Ingress : Constraining Access In my last missive I detailed out AKS and Ingress using NGinx Ingress Controllers. For public facing services this can be sufficient. However, many businesses require tighter controls - either for canary style
AKS AKS and Ingress, again I wrote most of my Azure Kubernetes guides a while back in a time where Helm 2 was standard and RBAC was an optional add-in. Recently when doing AKS work for work, I
KEDA Getting Started with KEDA A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine posted to our slack this medium article about KEDA and Kafka.I wasn’t familiar with Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler (KEDA) and wanted to find
k8s K8s and Redis; a tale of Layer 4 Ingress One thing that Kubernetes does particularly well is Layer 7 routing with Ingress. If you have an HTTP/HTTPS service, there are a slew of tutorials out there as well as best practices
github Github Actions with Pi4 k3s In our last post we covered using a k3s on a Raspberry Pi4 to serve up build agents for Azure DevOps. But what about those who use Github? Github has a robust yaml
k3s K3S, Pi4, and Azure DevOps We've explored Rancher's K3s before as well as K3OS. It's a pretty handy lightweight kubernetes environment. However, past attempts to make my Pi3b's proper containerized build agent pools ultimately fell down due it's
k8s CIVO Kubernetes: a solid managed k3s offering I love exploring alternative cloud providers. A new one I had not been aware of until recently is CIVO. They are a smaller cloud company focused on DevOps based out of Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Self Hosted Container Registry in Kubernetes When using kubernetes, one piece that always goes hand-in-hand is the container registry. often when we talk about bringing up a cluster, there is the implicit assumption that the registry is “someone else's
