Field Notes
Experience from real life projects
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Local multi-node cluster – Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD
ReadIn this post we compare Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD as different approaches to build multi-node cluster locally. Is Docker desktop bad? In the previous post…
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Creating X.509 TLS certificate for workload on Kubernetes
ReadIn deployment automation, I often had to create self-signed X.509 certificate for testing TLS traffic into Kubernetes. Sometimes self-signed, sometimes signed by a CA. This…
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Single-node Kubernetes cluster – docker desktop
ReadWhile there are many tools to set up single-node Kubernetes cluster (e.g. minikube, MicroK8s, kind, or k3s with the k3d wrapper), docker-desktop has a significant…
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Infrastructure deployment in Terraform 1/2
ReadTerraform is an excellent Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool based on Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL). Compared to JSON or YAML based declarative templates (e.g. CloudFormation and ARM),…
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Git Branching Strategy
ReadHaving been in two discussions about Git branching strategy with different organizations, I decide to jot down the details of all the common branching strategies…
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Host legacy application in Docker 2 of 2
ReadMy previous notes include some tricks in hosting legacy application in docker. This is a continuation from that work, after 1.5 months… Use Case I…