I’ve been building a couple of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines on Azure DevOps lately. Azure DevOps is formerly known as Visual Studio Team Service (VSTS). As I mentioned recently, VSTS had nothing to do with Visual Studio and we’re very happy with the new brand name. With CI / CD, … More Azure DevOps – Task output to a variable
In the last article, we authored a very simple chart. In this article I want to show how to use one of the powerful features of Helm: values. Values act as parameters to a chart. Having parameters is key for dev ops as we want to deploy the same chart to different environment with different … More Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS – Parametrized values
As we discussed in our last article, Helm is a great technology. I recommend using it not only to manage third party packages but also your own custom-developed solutions. But how do you author a Helm Chart? I found that question hard to answer. The common answer is “look at existing ones”. I have two … More Authoring a Helm Chart on Kubernetes / AKS – Getting started
Kubernetes is a big platform to absorb. It has a rich resource & networking model. In many ways it is a miniature version of a fully fledge cloud provider, abstracting the underlying cloud provider. That is my excuse for postponing addressing Helm for such a long time. Until today. I’ll look at why you should … More 5 reasons to use Helm charts in Kubernetes
I have this personal project where I have a swag of micro services collaborating to serve different web applications. I started to work on the Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD) using Azure DevOps. I did toy around those areas before. But this was really a rubber hits the road experience for me. … More Azure Dev Ops CI / CD pipelines with AKS – Lessons learned
I did a bit of experimentation with Kubernetes Ingress, more specifically NGINX, lately. I found the concept of Ingress utterly confusing at first. It is actually relatively simple. So, I thought I would share this sense of simplicity. This article is conceptual. There will be no code nor even Portal tour. If you want to … More About Ingress in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Logic Apps is a powerful integration platform. Some workflows naturally land themselves to recursion. For instance, handling a hierarchical data structure often has a natural recursive solution. Azure Logic Apps doesn’t allow recursion directly. It forbids a Logic App invoking itself. In this article we are going to explore two avenues to deal with … More Handling recursivity in Logic Apps
