Managing secrets is a complicated endeavor. Kubernetes has a native secrets implementation, that allows you to store and access secrets from your deployments. A while ago, I read a short free book on Kubernetes Security, by Liz Rice and Michael Hausenblas (apparently O’Reilly calls it a report, but I actually have a hard copy that […]
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Integrating your a helm blue/green deployment into a CI/CD pipeline
A while ago, I wrote about setting up a Kubernetes blue/green deployment using the service object in Kubernetes. All the work done there, was done editing yaml files and using direct kubectl commands, which you wouldn’t do in production. Later on, we updated those yaml files to Helm charts, so we can update with a […]
Writing a Helm v3 chart
Helm v3 recently became generally available. This looks like a great time to discover what Helm can help you do in your journey building cloud-native applications. I’ve been playing around with Helm charts (using v2) for a while, but I have never written a chart from zero (I typically use charts I find online and […]
Git branching explained
I am not a developer. I’m more of an infrastructure person, who delves into development sometimes. As part of a hackathon last week, my team and I ended up needing to do branches in git, and I had to shamefully admit that I always check-in to master. Most developers will be shooting me the same […]
Simple Kubernetes blue-green deployments
I had a great week this week at Ignite. There were a couple of nice announcements that I want to dive into soon (Azure Arc being one of them). If you have doubted about attending Ignite before, I can highly recommend it for a couple of reasons: There is a great atmosphere, and there a […]