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 FORTRAN in Kubernetes While there are guides to creating FORTRAN containers to solve local builds, I felt it would be a great logical followup to try and make a containerized microservice using FORTRAN. More importantly, could
Azure Getting Started with Packer and AzDO Lately I've been in many conversations about how to use Packer, especially how to use Packer with Azure Pipelines and Cloud endpoints. There are some good Getting Started trainings with Packer and Vagrant
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
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.
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
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
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
nexus Getting started with Containerized Nexus Last month we looked at Artifactory, both Commercial and OSS and how it could be used to host artifacts and containers. Let’s also look at the other big artifact management suite, Sonatype
Getting Started Getting Started: Skaffold, a k8s build framework Skaffold is a recent project from Google recently covered in an article by CBR. It is meant to be a simple pipeline tool for building container images. It dates back to January 3
k3s Ubuntu Multipass - Better than Docker? Multipass is billed as a “mini-cloud” for Mac and Windows machines. . It’s ubuntu’s play at a small virtual machine environment akin to Docker. How well does it perform and can we
artifactory Let's try JFrog Enterprise+ CICD One of the more interesting offerings that was presented at HashiConf 2019 came from the JFrog vendor booth - makers of Artifactory, one of the two leading binary artifact storage and dissemination tools
k3s K3S on Win 10 WSL 2 In our last post we dived into k3s - running it from a docker container with k3d and from both Pi (ARM64) and Google Cloud. But what about from Windows? Is it possible
Getting Started Getting Started with K3S With all the kubernetes talk lately, it caught my eye when k3s started to make its way into my news feeds. After a conference seeing plenty of k3s stickers, i felt it was
GCP GCP: App Engine Flex Last time we experimented with GCP App Engine Standard which provides an easy way to launch a containerized app provided we stay within some narrowly defined guardrails.But what if we wish a
GCP GCP: App Engine Standard Google Cloud App Engine Standard is an easy way to launch supported languages (Go, Java, PHP, Python and NodeJS) in a preconfigured cloud container. Google gives you 1Gb of data and traffic for
Getting Started Where it began: GCP and Kubernetes It’s probably about time we cover the other leading cloud compute provider - Google. Google gave birth to Kubernetes as an internal project called “Borg” in 2003 and eventually it grew to
digitalocean DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 2) Let’s get started making the pipeline. Microsoft will likely suggest the best way is to use the YAML editor, but generally I find it cumbersome and unintuitive. So we’ll use the
