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.

I’ve recently had to work on services that require to be installed on Windows, and because of this, using a container was out of the question. It was part of a migration which due to time constraints required lifting and shifting the machines rather than spending time automating and getting…