Monthly Archives: February 2021

Agile – DevOps Explained – Episode 2

DevOps Explained is a series of episodes that go through history and different aspects of DevOps.

Agile changed the way the software industry operates. Was that enough?

In this episode, we are exploring Agile and how it changed the software industry.

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Waterfall – DevOps Explained – Episode 1

DevOps Explained is a series of episodes that go through history and different aspects of DevOps.

Without understanding how we developed software in the past, it is close to impossible to understand the motivations behind starting the DevOps movement.

In this episode, we are exploring Waterfall and how we were developing software in the 20th century.

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Ketch – How to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments

Ketch makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes through a CLI. It removes the need to deal with Kubernetes complexity. It even removes the need to write YAML files.

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Crossplane – GitOps-based Infrastructure as Code through Kubernetes API

Crossplane is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) project that enables us to use Kubernetes to provision and manage infrastructure, services, and applications. Combined with Argo CD or Flux, it allows us to apply GitOps principles not only on infrastructure.

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Linode – The Fastest Cloud Computing Provider

Linode is a simple, cheap, and fast cloud computing provider. Should you use it? Does it have a good managed Kubernetes or any other "basic" cloud computing service?

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Automation of Everything – How To Combine Argo Events, Workflows & Pipelines, CD, and Rollouts

What do we get if we combine events, workflows, GitOps, progressive delivery, and secrets management? The short answer is that we get automation of everything in Kubernetes in a way that we should be operating in 2021.

We’ll combine Argo Events, Workflows & Pipelines, CD, and Rollouts and sprinkle all that with SealedSecrets, Kaniko, and a few other tools.

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Docker Is Dead? What Now? How Are We Going To Live Without It?

Dockershim has been deprecated in Kubernetes 1.20 and is scheduled to be removed in 1.22. That effectively killed Docker in Kubernetes. When your clusters are concerned, it is dead. What should we do about that?

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Argo Workflows and Pipelines – CI/CD, Machine Learning, and Other Kubernetes Workflows

Argo Workflows & Pipelines is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. It is a cloud-native solution designed from ground-up for Kubernetes.

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Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure vs Linode – Speed Comparison

Which cloud provider is the fastest? Is it Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Linode?

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