Kubernetes

Enforcing Kubernetes best practices and simplifying Kubernetes Configuration Validation with Kube-Linter and GitHub Actions

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creenshot showing the output of Kube-linter within GitHub Code Scanning, displaying 7 issues identified by Kube-linter. The image highlights the list of opened issues, each detailing specific problems detected in the Kubernetes configurations, providing a clear overview of areas needing attention

Kubernetes is ever growing and certainly a standard for container orchestration, however with it being picked up more and more by development teams, we want to ensure best practices and correctness of Kubernetes configuration files are valid. This can be tough and challenging to manage, let’s look at a tool that can assist you in … Read more

Deploying Azure AKS with Application Gateway and Flux extension – An introduction to GitOps

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Screenshot from the Azure Portal showing the successful deployment of GitOps configuration in Kubernetes. The image highlights the deployment status, indicating that the GitOps configuration was applied successfully. It includes details such as the deployment name, status, and any relevant logs or messages confirming the successful integration

In this blog post/tutorial, we’ll dive into a range of topics that are all deployed using GitHub Actions and Terraform. The focus is on deploying key components: This is also part of the Festive Tech Calendar – do check it out for even more awesome content! Prerequisites Before diving into Terraform deployments and application setups, … Read more

Building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps with Kubernetes and Helm providers

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I have a few blogs now on deploying Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) with different scenarios, such as deploying AKS with Application Gateway Ingress, in this blog post I am going to be building and deploying to an AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps. You will also have noticed in the title, it references both … Read more

Analyze your Kubernetes YAML files and Helm Charts to ensure best practices using KuberLinter in Azure DevOps Pipeline

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Screenshot from Azure DevOps showing the Kube-linter checks stage with a message indicating that lint errors were found, causing the pipeline to fail. The image highlights the error details and confirms that the pipeline did not pass due to the identified lint issues.

Deploying a number of YAML files or Helm Charts as part of your Kubernetes deployment? Unsure if they are representing best practices? KubeLinter will help you to achieve best practices within your YAML configurations & Helm Charts – I will show how you can add this tool as part of your CI integration tooling or … Read more