DevOps

Kubernetes: Extension of disk in Rook Ceph

In my previous blog, I’ve introduced the storage solution Rook Ceph for Kubernetes. We saw that in our architecture we had 3 workers dedicated for storage using Ceph file system. Each worker had 2 disks of(…)

Introduction to Rook Ceph for Kubernetes

We have been doing a lot of tests around Rook Ceph lately for one of our customer and it may worth sharing what I’ve learned. If you want a quick overview on that topic before diving into the official documentation(…)

Windows Server container on an AKS cluster

A few weeks ago I participated at the dbi services bootcamp. All new employees are gathered for a refreshment of dbi services best practices. This is also an opportunity to ask questions directly to our CEO(…)

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes: Create your first cluster

This is the second part of my journey with Tanzu (follow the first part here in case you missed it: VMware Tanzu Kubernetes: Introduction), this time I’ll describe how to initiate our first managed cluster. Then,(…)

GitLab Migration and Upgrade

I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release 13.3.4) running in a pod in(…)

Ansible Event Driven Automation

In my previous blogs about Ansible, I covered a few use cases: Simple playbooks Use Ansible like a Programming Language REST API calls Gather(…)

ChatGPT vs DevOps

As a lot of curious people, I have experimented with ChatGPT in order to figure out if it could be helpful in my work as a DevOps consultant or even replace me (why not?). If you are also interested to(…)

Docker Containers for Developers

As I am working on developing a component for YaK, I have to stick to standards on how to write code in Ansible as well as many other constraints regarding security. I always thought of docker(…)

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes: Introduction

Welcome in the world of managed Kubernetes! You’ve probably click or found this blog searching for more informations on Tanzu. Probably also because full or part of your infrastructure is managed with vSphere and you have interests. Perfect, you’re in(…)

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD: The Production Solution

In my previous blog I’ve detailed the tests we did regarding SSO in Kubernetes using Azure AD. I’ve described all the steps of our research on this topic in order to give our readers a real(…)