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DevOps. Comining development practices with Operations practices. Shifting things left. Moving to a more continuous cycle of integration and delivery.

DevOps has spawned a culture. A set of tools. It is highly complementary with Agile, of which Agilicus is a strong proponent.

Articles

Kustomizing Kustomize: Releasing Our Tools

Declarative. It becomes a way of life. We have chosen kustomize to safely build our inventory of YAML, including Istio and Cert-Manager. But, it has proven incredibly non-DRY. After some refactoring etc, I made a few Generators and Transformers to cover some…

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Unix to the Rescue

Ever wanted to apply Kubernetes secrets without displaying or persisting the secret value? Well now you can: Unix to the rescue!
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Laughably Loquacious Logging

Cloud logging. How much space does a typical keep-alive take if you log it? You would be shocked that 1 byte of log could be 32+ KiB of output space. Watch the entropy!
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I Declare is not the same as Make It So

Declarative vs Imperative. In a ‘declarative’ world I document the desired state, and it is the job of the system to ‘make it so’. In a declarative world you don’t need to worry about ‘how’, and you don’t need to worry about…
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When you throw in the towel on declarative

In a declarative world its all written down and checked into version control. No commands are used. Sometimes you hit a wall and have to punt. Here I show a simple workaround using `envsubst` for those times that declarative just doesn’t work.
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pause: how to debug your Kubernetes setup

Sometimes you need a debug container hanging around to check something from within your cluster. You cobble something together, make the ‘command’ be ‘sleep 3600’ or ‘tail -f /dev/null’ and call it a day. But they don’t terminate gracefully. Let’s learn how to…
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Speed your CI, decrease your cost. The preemptible node

Cloud Native means being resilient to unexpected changes, to achieving high availability through embracing failures rather than designing them out. Google has added ‘preemptible’ nodes to their Google Cloud, available to their managed Kubernetes. These nodes are a lot cheaper, but there’s a…
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