Field Notes

Experience from real life projects

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    Azure Deets

    Both Azure and AWS are leading players in public cloud. AWS developed a lot of SMB customer in technology. Azure attracted many enterprises from their…

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    Local multi-node cluster – Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD

    In 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

    In 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

    While 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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  • Git Branching Strategy

    I have been in two discussions about Git branching strategy in different organizations. Too many concepts! So I open this post to jot down the…

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