Google is well known for the minimal design of its homepage, but has it always been this way? — Google became the world’s largest search engine, with over 70% of all searches performed through its search engine. “Focus on the user and all else will follow. With this in mind, we seek to design experiences that inspire and enlighten our users.” This post is going to explore how the…

Pre-requisites In this article, I will be working with the following software, it makes sense to have these pre-installed before continuing. minikube — minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes kubectl — The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, allows you to run commands against…

And how to set up ingress in minikube — Why Do We Need Ingress? Some pods will require user input of some kind to interact with the running container. An example of this might be a web application. Without the user being able to browse the application in their web browser, the application is useless. Within Kubernetes, setting up access to a pod from…

I was working on an application that was only compatible with a particular Linux distro because it depended on some software that was running on the particular distro. …

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is a software pattern, which in its simplest form, looks at segregating Commands from Queries. Most applications do far more reading from writing, and in this scenario, CQRS can really improve scalability. …

What is a semantic version? Software versioning has always been an issue ever since software has been created. Semantic versioning is a universal way of versioning some software or a development project where multiple versions of the software exist, or plan to exist. A semantic version comes in the form of a number, split into…

When working with kubernetes, it is sometimes useful to spin up a container within a cluster to just test something quickly.

What is AWS Client VPN? AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables you to securely access your AWS resources and resources in your on-premises network. With Client VPN, you can access your resources from any location using an OpenVPN-based VPN client. Mutual authentication — generating certs With mutual authentication, Client VPN uses certificates to perform authentication…

GitOps is a broad term, which generally describes some processes used when deploying cloud-native applications. A source control repository is used as a mechanism to provide a declarative description of the current state of some infrastructure.