Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik (this post) Part 3: Canary Testing 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 release. Zero downtime and canary testing, resiliency and ...

Series: Part 1: Intro (this post) Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing I've written before that I think that containers - and Kubernetes (k8s) - are the way of the future. I was fortunate enough to attend my first KubeCon last year in Seattle, and I was happy to see the uptake of k8s and the supporting cloud native technologies around k8s are robust and healthy. But navigating the myriad of ...

Series: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Traefik Basics Part 3: Canary Testing (this post) 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 routing. With that foundation in place, I can easily implement ...

It's no surprise that I'm passionate about DevOps. I think that has to do with my personality - my top five StrengthsFinder strengths are Strategic, Ideation, Learner, Activator, Achiever. I love the combination of people and tools that DevOps brings together. Being deeply technical and also fascinated by how people interact means I'm built for DevOps consulting. Add to that my love of learning, ...