k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 6 Let's cover all the ways we can create clusters in AKS (and other providers as well): CLI, Kubespray, Terraform, and ARM Templates. We can start by comparing CLI and Kubespray.Azure CLILet’s
k8s AKS and Service Mesh: Istio In our prior guides we covered creating and monitoring clusters, but how do we handle service mesh? That is, a service for discovering and routing services. There are many options for “service mesh”
k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 5 (AppD) In Part 4 we explored setting up EFK, both OSS and Commercial. But in considering commercial, there are other great options as well including ApplicationDynamics (AppD). We are going to use the same
k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 4 (EFK) In the case of those who have a cross cloud or hybrid cloud environment, or prefer to use cloud-agnostic tooling, there are ways to monitor using several other monitoring frameworks. One of the
k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 3 In our last post, we tackled Auto-Scaling AKS clusters which adjusts the size of our clusters based on load. However, we have yet to address monitoring. How can we monitor our clusters using
k8s Backing up and Restoring Containerized PostgreSQL databases Using containerized databases in Kubernetes is quick and convenient. But how can we ensure backups and restores work? Let's examine this in my favourite chart lately, Sonarqube.Assumptions:you have AKS running with
k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 2 In Part 1 we covered the basics of AKS including installing CLI tools, creating a cluster, installing Helm and launching a stable chart. In Part 2 we will be covering scaling, both veritical
tutorial Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 1 Azure’s managed kubernetes service (AKS) is surprisingly easy to get started. Let’s start our series by clearing up an FUD and fire up a little cluster on our own.Creating the
tutorial Azure DevOps (VSTS) security and policies (part 5) In our last post we showed how we can validate candidate code prior to merging with a Pull Request. Pull Requests are a great way to validate code, but sometimes we need specific
tutorial Azure DevOps (VSTS) security and policies (part 4) In our last post we covered the Pull Request process and problems with leaving merged feature branches. But what about validating the code in a pull request before merging? What does AzDO offer
tutorial Azure DevOps (VSTS) security and policies (part 3) We have now created a PR but there are some features we can explore that make it even more automated.Auto-complete is a great feature that lets me, as the author, say “when
tutorial Azure DevOps (VSTS) security and policies (part 2) We had set up some common branch policies in our last post. But how does that really work?I’ve applied these changes and now will instantiate a change from a normal contributor
tutorial Azure DevOps (VSTS) security and policies (part 1) Azure DevOps security and policiesAzure DevOps (VSTS) by default has a model where any contributor can contribute to any branch in any Repo of projects for which they are Contributors.Many organizations desire
Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 3 Nexus is used as a medium between components.Repositories:Plugin: where to fetch build pluginsRepository: similar to above, where to find plugins, parent poms, etcDistribution repository: where to transmit built things. If you
tutorial Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 2 Pom RelationshipsAll POMs can have a parent POM. They can share a parent. The parent POMs store common settings (e.g. nexus creds, clover license, fixed versions of plugins)POMs can have modules
tutorial Maven and Nexus Tutorial: Part 1 Apache Maven is the logical successor to Ant is remains one of the most popular tools of orchestrating build environments and steps for Java based build. Maven is entirely java based making it
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 7 Many Enterprise features will make their way to OSS. However, as solid as the OSS version is, there are features as Enterprises scale that make the Enterprise offering make more sense
blog Automating Blog Updates with Azure DevOps In the past I've discussed trying to automate this blog. Phase 1: KISS methodI created some scripts that would sync it locally from a local node server (using httrack) then parse the html
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 6 API AccessWe can use REST APIs to interact with Vault as well. We can use these APIS to init, unseal and even create and update roles.# init with curl $ curl --request POST --data
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 5 So far our basic containerized Vault has worked for dev, but it’s not re-deployable in its current fashion. We would never use in-memory storage for keys (wanting instead to persist them).We
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 4 Authentication and PoliciesBy default, Vault uses token authentication. One can use vault create token to create a new token that inherits the privileges of the creating user.The token can be revoked by
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 3 One can add other secrets engines. Secret engines are Vault’s extensibility model that allows a way to take data, do an action and return a result. For instance, if one would like
tutorial A Vault Tutorial. Part 2 With Part 1, we showed how to launch a Vault instance locally with a focus on using docker and containers. Now that you have vault installed, let's check out what it can do.
vault A Vault Tutorial. Part 1 While Vault can be installed to a variety of platforms (www.vaultproject.io/downloads.html), one very straight forward approach that will work for later cloud migration is to use the published docker
blog Creating a blog. I've honestly been thinking through the many ways one could host a blog. I tried a few methods.Azure Hosted WordpressI used the standard Wordpress template with minimum settings and had the whole
