Solutions from the DevOps front lines
Recently I’ve been having some fun with writing a fairly complex Terraform module which of course has to make use of Conditional Logic a fair bit. The Terraform documentation covers both Conditionals, Functions and Op...
At the end of last year I wrote about some basic methods for debugging networking issues inside a Kubernetes Cluster. In that article we very briefly mentioned a then-_alpha_ feature (with a complicated sounding name)...
I have a t-shirt that says “There Is No Cloud, It’s Just Someone Elses’s Computer”, I also have that same quote on a sticker on the laptop I’m writing this on. It’s a good gag and it’s a view I used to subscribe to bu...
Ansible Vault isn’t, if I’m honest, a solution that I’ve ever found much use for in my day to day work. I prefer to use a centralised Secrets Management solution wherever it’s practical (particularly favouring Hashico...
Recently I’ve had the experience of reconfiguring the popular Kubernetes Service Mesh Istio (using it’s Gateway ingress model) to work with an AWS Application Load Balancer with a degree of automation and scalability....