Shipping daily
On November 28th, I decided to take on a challenge. To blog daily for 100 days. I didn’t have a strong logical reasoning on why. No huge pay off. It felt really difficult to do. I certainly haven’t seen a...
State-based vs migration-based database deployments
In the world of SQL, there’s a lot of great tools available to help with automated database deployments. Ultimately, there’s two main paradigms available in these tools. There are migration-based database deployments and state-based database deployments.
User Assigned Identity using an ARM template for an App Service
Managed identities on Azure are great. No need to store client secrets corresponding to a service principal. Instead, we let Azure worry about that. We can let compute resources (like app services) authenticate against Azure AD to use other Azure...
Installing Linkerd using Azure DevOps
Similar to a previous post, this is a small guide on how to create some glue code to ensure Linkerd is installed on a Kubernetes cluster.
Building and pushing a container to a registry with environment/git commit tag
One way to implement promotions in GitOps is to have the operator deploy images published with a prefixed environment tag. For example, if you want your operator in your staging cluster to deploy only images ready for staging, you can...