If you have ever built a home server or local Kubernetes lab, you probably know the classic homelab lifecycle:...Infrastructure as Code (IaC), synchronized via GitOps, and portable across machines using containerized...environments. Here is how I designed and architected…
A unit test exercises the function. It does not exercise the deployment. That gap is where a staging container ships with security controls that pass everything they are handed and are still wrong in the image that ends up running.
they run fleets of microservices orchestrated by Kubernetes, managed by Helm, and secured by Istio. You think: If it's good enough for them,...sound impressive in a meeting. When you adopt Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio, you aren't just adopting software;…
deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux CD v2, Kustomize overlays, and automated GitOps continuous reconciliation. If you have ever spent...self-hosted services using docker compose or ad-hoc kubectl apply commands, you know the inevitable pain:...workflow and…
Two ways to run containers on Windows without Docker Desktop, plus every red error message I met on the...the situation. Your laptop is locked down, Docker Desktop is not on the approved list (or the license...finance" thing), and…
Jenkins credential errors to a working pipeline, Kubernetes deployment, and automated GitOps reconciliation Author: Jamiu Olatunji Bakre Role:...through an automated build process, becomes a Docker image, and is ultimately deployed and managed in Kubernetes. I wanted to go beyond…
GitOps gives you an auditable, pull-based control plane for everything that lives in the mesh...source of truth for declarative mesh state. The GitOps pattern — declarative state + versioned in Git...reconcile agents — lines up exactly with how service meshes…
concern in security-conscious environments. Docker Engine does provide a rootless mode, but it is not...and is not always enabled on production servers. Podman removes the daemon entirely, runs containers as...to an unprivileged host user. It also supports Kubernetes…
In this lab, I installed Argo CD on a two-node Kubernetes cluster using the official Argo CD installation manifest and configured it to deploy...an Nginx application from a GitHub repository. Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool…
This step-by-step guide shows how to use Istio to easily expose your Kubernetes dashboard to users and administrators of your cluster. But first, an introduction to Istio and the advantages it offers for managing cluster communications. Istio is a platform-agnostic…
Packaging and orchestrating workloads: Kubernetes releases and operations, Docker and containers, Helm, GitOps and the platform tooling around clusters.
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