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Introduction​

Docker introduced containers technology as mainstream around 2013. Since then, containerization became an integral part of the cloud and digital transformations. Nowadays most of the traditional server workloads such as web APIs, web apps (broadly speaking server side workloads), are containerized. Heck, even Microsoft saw the writing on the wall and since 2016 windows containers are also there (albeit a bit on the heavy side). 2017 saw the introduction of Kubernetes, a container orchestration, which even more cemented already strong position of containers as compute workhorses.

Easily Deploy Containers to Azure directly from your Desktop​

Introduction​

Containers are now a mature solution providing an additional level of infrastructure abstraction. In many cases, containers can replace workloads traditionally powered by virtual machines.

GitOps with Kubernetes​

Introduction​

In 2017, a cloud-native company Weaveworks release a blog post called “GitOps — Operations by Pull Request”. The post introduces the term GitOps defining it as *using Git as a source of truth to operate almost anything. *Since then GitOps movement has been growing and gaining in popularity.

How to create Kubernetes home lab on an old laptop​

Introduction​

I’ve recently “discovered” and old laptop forgotten somewhere in the depths of my basement and decided to create a mini home lab with it where I could play around with Kubernetes.

How to learn and stay up to date with DevOps and Cloud Native technologies​

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Bejnamin Franklin

Know what is important to know​

A famous Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC — 322 BC) has been called the last person to know everything there was to know in the science. Since than science grown exponentially, became divided and subdivided into specialized, narrow disciplines.

I have given a talk about this topic at the WorldWide Architecture Summit 2 on the 3rd of August 2021. You can find the talk recording here.

Cloud Native - Developer Workflow​

Software Development Lifecycle with Kubernetes and Docker​

Introduction​

Software development tooling and processes have evolved rapidly in last decade to meet growing needs of developers. On top of mastering, often a few, programing languages and paradigms, software developers must learn to navigate increasingly complex landscape of tools and processes.

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Static websites have become a mainstream content delivery medium consumed by modern browsers. In this blog, we will look at different ways of deploying a sample static website using automated CI/CD pipelines and different hosting providers.

Expose local Kubernetes service on internet using ngrok​

Working with local Kubernetes cluster such as minikube, k3s, microk8s or others is great for testing new features, experimenting and running POCs. Once you are ready with a cool new functionality or just want to share quickly results of your work with colleagues or customers, well you have to push everything to an online cluster. It might not be an issue if you have good CI/CD pipeline setup, but most of the time it’s simply too much effort for a simple one-off demo.

Continue reading if you are interested in learning about Docker architecture and how containers work.