Posts published under the DevOps account are collective contributions by the dbi services DevOps consultants. The practice covers Kubernetes and container platforms, CI/CD toolchains, and infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, including the YaK framework for multi-cloud deployments, helping organizations make their infrastructure reproducible, scalable, and efficient.
The question comes frequently: How can I monitor my MongoDB cluster (ReplicaSet or Sharded) in a production environment? To answer this question we need first to get an overview of all potential monitoring solutions, and then compare them one by one. That’s exactly what we gonna do in this blog post series of MongoDB Monitoring solutions. Actually, a few monitoring…
After more than 2 years of experience in Kubernetes cluster administration, I am deeply convinced that one of the most important things to have as an ops guy is a sandbox cluster at your disposal. This can be either a sleeping cluster or a new fresh installation with all your standards replicated on it to perform your series of tests.…
Kubernetes is very popular and well-known open-source orchestration platform for containers. Very dynamic ecosystem, the release cycle is also very fast. Six months passed since the K8s team announced the dockershim will be deprecated and the 1.22 release deadline is approaching. As they informed in their quite detailed post in early Dec. 2020, Docker support will be removed in 1.22…
I did not intend to create a new blog on Ansible so fast, but here it comes. My previous blog on that topic was a first step in Ansible world. Now, it is time to use some of the advanced features. Context We recently had an issue at a customer site, where some of the servers were having time synchronization…
Over the last years GitLab became one of the most popular and powerful open source git source code platform. From pure source code repository to a DevOps platform, it’s interesting to see how GitLab has evolved and this is reflected in the technological choices made by the technical teams. GitLab can be deployed on Cloud or On-premise environments in multiple…
One of the most important and basic concept in Kubernetes is the Service exposition. How about exposing a Kubernetes Service deployed inside a cluster to outside traffic? Let’s have a look on the different approaches to expose a Kubernetes Service outside the cluster and particularly the role of the Ingress Controller. NodePort, Load Balancers, and Ingress Controllers In the Kubernetes…
For a few months now, we started a huge project at a customer; build a complete CI/CD platform for Documentum. The final goal is to create a CI/CD process for platform and software delivery to reduce as possible the delivery of the releases. To achieve this goal, 2 main products have been introduced at our customer by our DevOps team:…
On this second day here at DevOps World in Lisbon, I built a very interesting and intensive program of sessions to attend which I will explain to you more in detail below. This was also the opportunity for us (Arnaud and I) to meet our main customer from whom we are working with Jenkins X each day. It is always…
Welcome to the DevOps World – Jenkins World in Lisbon 😀 ! I’m very excited to attend my first DevOps World, thanks to dbi services for allowing me to attend this event. By the way, it’s my first time here in Lisbon and I fell in love with this city. The first day was exclusively book for workshops, and we…
For one of our important customers, we are working on a major project to migrate critical applications to containers. From the implementation of the Kubernetes architecture to the deployment of applications and the administration of the platform, we are responsible for an important technological stack with new challenges for our team. One of the challenges, both important and exciting, is…
Nowadays the market for cloud providers is very competitive. Large companies are fighting a very hard battle over the services they provide. Each offers a wide range of more or less identical products with specific features for each. In my point of view, having deployed Kubernetes clusters in several environments (Cloud and On-Premise), I pay particular attention to Google Cloud…
