Solutions from the DevOps front lines
In Part 1 of this project we covered building the infrastructure that underpins Kubernetes; the Virtual Machines that make up it’s Control and Data Planes, implementing high availability, bootstrapping the core Kubern...
My home lab has been getting a bit long in the tooth recently. These days I work mostly with container platforms and Infrastructure as Code but those are mostly put to work inside the opaque walls of public cloud prov...
Previously we looked at using Localstack to emulate AWS services and speed up the feedback loop during development. In this short post we’re going to look at how to integrate this tool with Terraform to perform some s...
Recently I’ve been writing some Ansible plays for a personal project and looking around online reminded me just how much people struggle with handling loops. It’s not a huge surprise, whilst the documentation is prett...
One of the challenges that seems to crop up pretty frequently is reliably simulating a cloud platform or application without having to tediously configure a sandbox environment for every little change. Even when a san...