By Lionel Gurret In Memory of René Kammer In remembrance of René Kammer, a beloved MCT who left us this year. His presence and contributions to our community are deeply missed. Introduction Ever wondered what goes down when Europe’s Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) come together? Well, it’s the MCT Summit Europe — a gathering packed …
By Lionel Gurret. Introduction In this article, we will explore how to provision an Azure infrastructure to enable backing up an AKS cluster. While services like Azure Backup can be used, they do not allow for automating the creation of different resources via Terraform or remain in "preview." For these reasons, we will learn how …
Protect your Kubernetes Applications on AKS: Configuring Velero with Terraform Read More »
By Lionel Gurret. Introduction The setup and management of infrastructure for your Cloud computing projects can be a tedious and time-consuming process. An Infrastructure as Code solution such as Terraform allows you to create and manage cloud resources using configuration files. As we will see in this article, Terraform can be particularly complex to manage …
Terragrunt: Simplify the management of your Terraform infrastructures Read More »
By Lionel Gurret and Fabrice Vergnenègre. Introduction The Kubernetes Community Days took place at Google’s offices in Zurich Europaallee for the first time in Switzerland! These global events bring together experts and adopters from the open source and cloud native community. The first day was dedicated to hands-on workshops where participants could apply their skills …
Kubernetes Community days Zurich 2023 – Feedback Read More »
By Lionel Gurret. Day 1 DevOpsDays Zurich is a much-anticipated annual conference that brings together professionals from the DevOps community to share ideas, learn from one another, and explore the latest trends in technology. As an avid attendee of last year’s event, I was thrilled to participate in this year’s conference, which spanned two days …
Originally posted on Sokube’s blog Context Thanks to the Openshift platform (OCP), thousands of companies allow their developers to build, deploy, and run applications in containers. This platform also offers advanced features such as: This platform can be hosted both on a private cloud (on-premise) and on a public cloud. It is possible to install Openshift …
Introduction As seen in the previous articles on Jenkins, you can deploy plugins to which are the primary means of enhancing the functionality of a Jenkins environment to suit organization- or user-specific needs. There are over a thousand different plugins which can be installed on a Jenkins controller and to integrate various build tools, cloud providers, analysis …
Originally posted on Sokube’s blog. The importance of testing your code as soon as possible In the Agile world, development teams are required to reduce delivery time as much as possible while continuously improving the quality of the code produced. Indeed, it is important that at each release, the version is documented, tested, validated and secure …
How to leverage Pre-commits hooks with Terraform Read More »
Introduction The twelve-factor application is a methodology for Softwares or web applications deployed in the cloud. These best practices are designed to enable applications to be built with portability and resilience when deployed to the web. The purpose is the following : once you develop and set your application, it has to smoothly operate from the Cloud without having …
Originally posted on https://en.sokube.ch/post/introduction-to-portworx Introduction to Kubernetes Storage As you may already know, Kubernetes is a free and open-source container orchestration platform. It helps you manage containerized environments and provides amazing features such as self-healing, rollout, rollbacks, auto scaling and packaging ! Storage may not be your main concern if you are running stateless workloads …