DevOps

Cloudbees CD/RO, Pipelines advanced parameters

Cloudbees CD/RO is a highly flexible tool. You can define your own customized parameter forms for pipelines or procedures.For example, the same parameter form can be adapted according to the users: user-friendly for common users or more permissive for admin(…)

Combining Powerful Cilium Features Together In Kubernetes

My colleagues and I have played with Cilium from Isovalent for a while now and we have successfully deployed it as simple CNI (Container Network Interface) along with Hubble on several production Kubernetes cluster of our customers.

Rancher autoscaler – Enable RKE2 node autoscaling

In Rancher, if you make use of node drivers to provision your RKE2 nodes, you can also make use of the cluster autoscaler. In this article, I will show you how simply you can configure the autoscaler for your cluster.

Share Gitlab agent to deploy microservices projects

In a microservice application, the code for each service has its own git repository. However, how do deploy without duplicating the Gitlab agents ? In Gitlab, you can share an agent between several projects to deploy the application on a(…)

CloudBees CD/RO – How to use formal output parameter

Did you have issues using output parameter in CloudBees CD/RO or didn’t find much documentation about it? Then you are at the right place. I will present and guide you through an example of how to use the output parameter.

Running .NET applications in a Kubernetes cluster: A step-by-step guide

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform that allows you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications with ease. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of running .NET applications in a Kubernetes cluster. We will cover(…)

Deploy an application with GitLab CI/CD

Following on from my previous article “Build and containerize an Angular application with GitLab CI/CD“, it’s now time to deploy this application. In this article, I will deploy the application on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm. Prerequisites Before starting,(…)

Kubernetes CoreDNS in depth

You know that CoreDNS is one of the core component of Kubernetes. You may also know that the CoreDNS pod is up and running only after the Container Network Interface (CNI) has been installed in your(…)

Swiss Cloud Native day landed at the Gurten!

On the 21st of September this year, we attended the Swiss Cloud Native Day. I was accompanied by two of my colleagues, Arnaud Berbier and Christoph Bernhard. This event took place for the third time, and this year, it(…)

Declaring environments in GitLab

Why do I need to declare environments in GitLab ? To track deployed versions on each environment To control deployment on environments (e.g. add an approval to deploy production) Add environment-related variables An environment can be linked to a pipeline(…)