Immutable infrastructure
Cattle vs pets is a well known concept in DevOps used to describe a mindset when treating servers. The core meaning behind it is immutable infrastructure.
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Installing Flux using Azure DevOps and Helm on AKS
Flux is an open-source project that’s currently being incubated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It enables Kubernetes cluster to adopt a GitOps workflow for deployments. Terraform can get you most of the way there. But, ultimately, there’s some glue...
Azure AD permissions to read service principals
Yesterday, I wrote a guide on configuring an AKS cluster to pull down images from a private Azure Container Registry. I demonstrated this using Terraform. If you’re like me, you’ll want to run any automation using a pipeline so that...
Azure container registry and AKS with Terraform
Here’s a quick guide on how to provision an Azure Container Register with Terraform. Also, we’ll cover how to grant AKS permissions to read from the newly created registry.
Code promotion with containers
Due to the nature of containers, to deploy changes to an environment, these environments have to pull a chosen image tag from a container registry. In other words, there’s no code pushed to environments. The easy and dangerous way is...