Shifting Security Left by scanning your container images It’s been quite some time since I wrote a how-to article. A lot has changed since then with me personally but let’s get right into it. Anchore Engine is an open-source tool that scans your container images to see if there are…

On Windows 10 with minikube & different namespaces So far, we have covered GitOps in theory. Now, we are going to put GitOps into practice using Weaveworks Flux and Kustomize. We are going to set up our hello-world example so that every time you push a change to a particular…

One more step in our automation quest… In my last post, I covered GitOps, how we got here, and why it’s important. In this post, we are going to get back to the technical stuff and cover the deployable artifact, a Helm Chart. As a quick recap, by going #GitOps…

From 1.6.2, eek! It’s been a few months since I fired up my minikube instance and since then, minkube v1.9.2 and K8S v1.18.1 have come out. Time to upgrade! Upgrade Minikube to v.1.9.2 minikube stop choco upgrade minikube --version 1.9.2

A brief history lesson of how we got here. GitOps is a practice that uses Git (source control) as the source of truth for your codified infrastructure. Coupled with a way to sync your stack’s current state against this source code, your system will continuously converge to what has been…

Updated — Testing out Knative Serving v0.16.0 Knative (pronounced kay-nay-tiv) is a serverless solution you can run on Kubernetes, except in our case it’s minikube. …

Some changes you must know about before getting started. After a 60 day break from working on all things #DevOps, I wanted to jump back in by refreshing my local environment. While spinning things up, I noticed Helm v3 was released back in November 2019. After an internet search, I…

Upgrading from v1.5.2 to v1.6.2 I feel like it’s been ages since I’ve played with Minikube. The last thing I remember is I was trying to write a post about serverless on minikube but my machine ran out of resources. …

Another tool to help you release software Skaffold is a command line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications. You can iterate on your application source code locally then deploy to local or remote Kubernetes clusters. Skaffold handles the workflow for building, pushing and deploying your application. It also…