Since Microsoft acquired GitHub, and the anti-Microsoft folks had calmed down, there have been a number of interesting developments in the GitHub ecosystem. If you’ve ever read one of my blogs or attended any events that I’ve spoken at, you’ll know that I am a raving Azure DevOps fan. I do, however, also have several repos on GitHub. As a DevOpsologist (someone who is in a constant state of ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing Part 4: Telemetry with Prometheus (this post) Part 5: Prometheus Operator In my previous post in this series I wrote about how I used Traefik to do traffic shifting and canary testing. I asserted that without proper telemetry, canary testing is (almost) pointless. Without some way to determine the efficacy of a canary deployment, you ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing (this post) Part 4: Telemetry with Prometheus Part 5: Prometheus Operator In my previous post I compared Istio, Linkerd and Traefik and motivated why I preferred Traefik for Container DevOps. I showed how I was able to spin up Traefik controllers - one for internal cluster traffic routing, one for external cluster in-bound traffic ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik (this post) Part 3: Canary Testing Part 4: Telemetry with Prometheus Part 5: Prometheus Operator In Part 1 of this series, I outlined some of my goals and some of the thinking around what I think Container DevOps is - it's far more than just being able to build and run a container or two. Beyond just automating builds, you have to think about how you're going to ...