In this guide, we will use Ansible as a Deployment tool in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment process using Jenkins Job....
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IntroHaving a proper backup recovery plan is vital to any organization's IT operation. However, when you begin to distribute workloads across data centers and regions, that process begins to become more and more complex. Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes have begun to ease this burden and enabled the management...
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Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration system, however, it can be really hard to configure its deployment process. Specific apps can help you manage multiple independent resources like pods, services, deployments, and replica sets. Yet, each must be described in the YAML manifest file. It’s not a problem for a...
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In a previous article, we discussed How to improve your CI/CD workflow using GitHub Actions. Today we are going a step further. We will work with some additional actions to test our application, before submitting the Docker image and sending a notification to a Slack channel. First of all,...
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This blog post demonstrates how you can use the Operator Lifecycle Manager to deploy a Kubernetes Operator to your cluster. Then, you will use the Operator to spin up an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) cluster. An operator is a software extension that uses custom resources (extension of the Kubernetes...
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ADD and COPY copy files to a Docker image. ADD can also extract tar archives and it can download files from URLs and copy them into the Docker image. The best practice is to use COPY....
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Gremlin is a leading software company focusing on chaos-test in the market. It also has a tool similar to Chaos Monkey which belongs to Netflix, but is more customized to test the system with random loads or scheduled shutdowns. In the article below we will be testing a simple Kubernetes...
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This is the third part of our series about Sysdig. The first tutorial walked you through the process of capturing and analyzing data with the Sysdig command-line utility. The second tutorial showed how to use Csysdig, the ncurses based GUI. Now, we'll focus on explaining how you can troubleshoot your...
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While developing a web application, a common method of calling the application from a local machine is through http://localhost:x ports, which essentially means that we are required to expose several ports to access different modules of the application. In the article below, we will go through the method...
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Today, container technology is one of the most popular and essential tools for producing and deploying various applications. Docker is one of them. It has gained popularity over the past years and has been using this technology as a native system. But container technology was designed only for Linux or...
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