Published Apr 7, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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.

Published Mar 31, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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 both...

Published Mar 25, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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.

Published Mar 17, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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 and h...

Published Mar 10, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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.

Published Mar 3, 2019 by Isaac Johnson

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 people to validate...