Jenkins

There are a myraid of ways to deploy Kubernetes clusters these days. Kubernetes the Hard Way Cluster API Kubeadm Kubespray kops Those are just a few of the ways and I’m sure you’ll have a favorite. But for the work I’ve been doing lately, I don’t want to spend a bunch of time cloning repos, updating configs, running ansible scripts and the like, just to get another clean kubernetes cluster in my lab to break. So, I took the individual parts of a Kubernetes build and created a list of ordered jobs in my Jenkins server. ...

If you’ve been doing application development for long, having tools in place to check the health of your code is probably not a new concept. However, if you’re jumping into something like Cloud and you’ve been an infrastructure engineer, this may be a foreign concept to you. Isn’t it bad enough that you’ve started learning Git, JSON, YAML, APIs etc on top of your existing skill sets? Well, take some lessons from the application teams and you may well find that you’re improving your processes and reducing the technical debt and time to provision infrastructure as code resources as well. ...