Tag: Devops and ci cd
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Optimizing docker images for a faster development workflow
Posted on August 11, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
jobandtalent Engineering published an interesting article on Docker images optimization. Architecture being based on docker means that every change that improves the usage of a resource (time to execute, memory usage, disk space usage, network usage…) in any stage of the process, will have an impact in each one of the environments.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Creating a load-balanced web service on cloud with Ansible
Posted on August 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Alex Callejas from RedHat wrote quick tutorial about Ansible as a tool for creating of load-balanced web service on cloud. Through a practical example, author will show how to automate creation of one of the most basic web services, with three instances of Apache as a backend and a load balancer as frontend.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Code review best practices
Posted on August 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Palantir Technologies article about insights and best practices for code reviews. Organizations with deep cultural reluctance to peer reviews may want to consult Karl E. Wiegers' excellent essay on Humanizing Peer Reviews before trying to follow this guide.
Tags software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career
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Setting up a reverse-proxy with NGINX and docker-compose
Posted on July 28, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dominik Weber tutorial how to set up reverse-proxy with NGINX, which can then handle server-related aspects, like SSL and caching, completely transparent to the application behind it. It is good practice in general to not make internal services public-facing that don't have to be.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd how-to software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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A sysadmin's guide to Ansible: How to simplify tasks
Posted on July 26, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Jonathan Lozada De La Matta from RedHat wrote this article about sysadmin tasks automation. There are many ways to automate common sysadmin tasks with Ansible. In this article you will find several of them.
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CI/CD with Kubernetes: tools and practices
Posted on July 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Rob Scott intro into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with Kubernetes. Setting up a CI/CD pipeline on top of Kubernetes will speed up your release life cycle — enabling you to release multiple times a day -- and enable nimble teams to iterate quickly.
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How to build your own serverless platform
Posted on June 5, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this post, Tomasz Janczuk, will provide a blueprint for building your own serverless platform, based on the lessons learned from working on Auth0 Extend in the recent years.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd
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Locking down Kubernetes workers: hardening Kubernetes security
Posted on June 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Kontena's blog on ht topic of Kubernetes security. One of the trickiest parts in setting up a proper Kubernetes cluster is making it secure. There are numerous communication paths that must be secured.
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Beyond CPU: horizontal pod autoscaling, custom metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine
Posted on May 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting article by Maks Osowski addressing common problem for enterprises and their need to autoscale their environments based on more than just CPU usage. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10+ will enable you to configure your deployments to scale horizontally in a variety of ways.
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Advanced logging on Kubernetes
Posted on May 22, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Sandor Guba article diving into Kubernetes logging. The article covers some advanced techniques and visualizations of the collected logs. It is part of the series of articles on Kubernetes topic. Banzai Cloud puts huge efforts to monitor large and federated clusters and they push large amounts of logs of the distributed applications to Kubernetes.
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Fact vs. fiction: 6 myths about container security
Posted on May 21, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
David Lawrence wrote this article to help you to quell these myths so you can find default security and secure coding at the heart of well-architected containers. In this article, authors take a look specifically at the myths surrounding container security -- and the opportunities container technology presents to integrate security at each stage of the application lifecycle that otherwise would be hard to achieve.
Tags software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy
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Twitter Lite and high performance react progressive web apps at scale
Posted on May 4, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Paul Armstrong interesting article about a look into removing common and uncommon performance bottlenecks in one of the worlds largest React.js progressive web apps, Twitter Lite. Creating a fast web application involves many cycles of measuring where time is wasted, understanding why it's happening, and applying potential solutions.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd