DevOps

Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry

You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how to do(…)

Elasticsearch – Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM)

In a previous blog, I spoke about snapshot, restore, and briefly about Snapshot Lifecycle Management. In this blog, I will go more in deep in SLM.

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.

Zabbix Agent Automated Registration

For those reading my blog posts regularly, you know I am an fan of automation. Declaring each host in Zabbix configuration manually is not an idea I like very much. Moreover, in dynamic environments which are moving a lot, manual(…)

Kubernetes Community Days 2023 in Zürich

I attended for the first time the KCD (Kubernetes Community Days) in Zürich with my colleagues Jean-Philippe and Arjen. I can say I was pretty eager to know more about topics around Kubernetes and eBPF stuff as Isovalent was well(…)

Kubernetes Community Days landed in Zürich

Today at dbi services, with my colleague Chay Te and Arjen Lankkamp, we attended to the KCD in Zurich. First occurrence of the Kubernetes Community Days organized in Switzerland, the KCD Zurich hosted 250 participants. The previous day was devoted(…)

Prometheus and the AlertManager

In any monitoring tool, the question of alerting arises. Prometheus has a component dedicated to this function called the “Alertmanager”. One of the strengths of Alertmanager is its ability to evaluate and group alerts, thus avoiding false positives and waves(…)

Build and containerize an Angular application with GitLab CI/CD

To deploy an Angular application into Kubernetes, the application needs to be build, containerized and pushed into a container registry before the deployment. In this project, I want to: Build the Angular Application using Angular CLI Create a new image(…)

Elasticsearch Upgrade – What about index compatibility?

Upgrade Elasticsearch is an easy task, I always heard this sentence. Which is correct if you take care about indices and compatibility. At a customer, I had the chance to upgrade an old version of Elasticsearch, today I will share(…)

Elasticsearch queries: Domain Specific Language (DSL)

There are several query languages to query Elasticsearch (e.g. KQL, EQL, DSL, aso), in this blog I will speak about Domain Specific Language (DSL) which is the most flexible and gives access to all Elasticsearch options!(…)