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How to use ‘terraform output’ in a GitHub action

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

Recently, I was building a GitHub Actions pipeline, and needed to access output from Terraform. There’s a very convenient feature in Terraform that allows you to get output from your applied .tf files. You can call those values from the shell directly, and assign them to variables in your shell. What you need to do […]

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Onboarding a Kubernetes cluster to Azure Arc

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

Azure Arc is part of Microsoft’s vision for a successful hybrid cloud deployments and management. Arc enables consistent management of your IT estate across multi-cloud, hybrid and edge deployments. What Arc enables is the use of Azure management and policy tools to manage and secure your IT estate. Currently, there are three solutions announced that […]

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Taking the Open Service Mesh for a test drive

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

It caugt me a little by surprise last week when Microsoft released a Service Mesh: We are beyond excited to introduce Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight and extensible #servicemesh that implements @SMI_spec and runs on @kubernetesio @EnvoyProxy! Check out what we’ve been up to here:https://t.co/l6fy4OUorO — Open Service Mesh (@openservicemesh) August 5, 2020 The […]

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Maintaining client IP on a Service in the Azure Kubernetes Service

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

Did you know that if you’re running a service in Kubernetes without additional configuration that you lose the client’s IP address? If you’re answer was ‘no’, you’re in the same boat I was last weekend. Tim Hockin from Google made a nice presentation about connecting into a Kubernetes cluster that opened my eyes to this […]

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Run Kubernetes clusters locally using kind

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to ‘test something new’? How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to start learning about new functionalities? In my case, I do this pretty frequently. I very frequently spin up (and down) Azure Kubernetes clusters. This approach comes with two downsides however: it takes […]

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I'm Nills, a cloud architect focused on cloud automation. I share my technical stories on this blog, mainly on Azure, Kubernetes and cloud networking.

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