MCB - Atorico

Conftest: Path-based Validation by Using the Combine Flag

If storing Infrastructure as a Code, such as Kubernetes manifests, linting your configuration files with Conftest is a great first step. If you've structured your IaaC repository based on your infrastructure layout, ie. Stage-Environment-Domain-Application, you could also use Conftest to help validate the service

Conftest

Conftest: Validating Schemaless Configuration Files Such as Like Helm Chart Values

One of the biggest problems I needed to overcome while using OPA-Policy-Language with our Helm Chart configuration repositories is that each values.yaml could have a unique structure and ensuring stage specific values don't creep into the wrong stages. An inital working example can

Tutorial

Conftest: Configuration linting using OPA's rego policy language

Manageing configuration tends to come down to maintaining loads of yaml or json files which can get messy pretty quickly. To help ensure some standards it's important to lint even these files. In Kubernetes there are some nice projects to that end, such as

Opinion

Software Development as an Employee in Central Europe

As an American I can confirm what most non-Americans believe about Americans: nothing outside of North-America really matters. Working in the tech industry in Europe, this part of American culture has somehow crept into the sub-conscious of the IT world even here. Probably thanks

Kubernetes

ExternalName Services: Keeping your critical Stateful Applications out of Kubernetes

Once you start using Kubernetes, there's a strong desire to run everything on it. I'm not saying this is not possible, but for one reason or another it is not always practical. ExternalName services are a type of Service which allow you to map

Ingress

Kong Ingress Controller: Configure nokia/kong-oidc in Kubernetes with Kong CRD's

Here is an example of how to configure the nokia/kong-oidc plugin using Kong's KongPlugin CRD : --- apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1 kind: KongPlugin metadata: name: kong-oidc-plugin-example namespace: dev config: client_id: **** client_secret: **** discovery: https://****.auth0.com/.well-known/openid-configuration scope: openid email profile

docker

Docker to Podman

Over the last few years Docker has been a staple of our workflow. Without it what could we have accomplished? Lately, it seems like the hit is in on Docker. First, Kubernetes trumped Docker Swarm as the orchestrator of choice, then Kubernetes dropped support