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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
k3s Ubuntu Multipass: Part Deux (k3s and PVC) K3s on Multipass is pretty nice, but we have to add storage to make it useful. Let’s add StorageOS to provide a Persistant Volume system.We can follow this guide (https://docs.
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
digitalocean Kubernetes Aspen Mesh Aspen Mesh is a supported distribution of Istio with hosted Graphana and Prometheus among other features. It has an "Enterprise" offering "coming soon" but for now has a free public beta. I became
k8s Automating AKS Deployments like a Boss: Part 8 (AKS and AAD) In recent weeks I’ve been helping several clients with AKS and RBAC. Specifically, how can we use Azure Kubernetes Service but still leverage our identity management in AD (be it native or
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
k8s DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 4) When we last left off we had our Digital Ocean k8s cluster spun with Terraform and Istio installed with helm. Our next steps will be to have automatic sidecar injection and create a
digitalocean DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 3) At this point we have a pipeline that is dynamically created, a helm chart launched and lastly torn back down. But how can we actually use this? What more can be done with
digitalocean DO K8s and AzDO Automation (Part 1) We've dug into a few kubernetes launch guides, but in reality, once launched, they aren't of much use without a DevOps pipeline to deliver content. Let's focus on taking a Digital Ocean kubernetes
Getting Started Harness Harness bills itself as "the industry's first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform". You can signup up from the website https://harness.io/ using a few different credentials providers. The product is priced in a few
