devops

Are You Afraid of the Word DevOps? – Part 2

In my previous blog post, we started to explore how to increase the Time-to-Market (TTM) of your simple application. We improved it and to go further we will now leverage containerization. As in part 1,(…)

Are You Afraid of the Word DevOps? – Part 1

We came to realize recently that there is a resistance to the word DevOps and it repels some of you. Sadly, by stopping to this word, it prevents you from entering his world! Do you feel that DevOps is(…)

Interacting with OpenShift Local in an Azure VM

In my previous blog I’ve written about the no or low cost solutions to setup an OpenShift cluster to play with. I’ve detailed the installation of OpenShift Local on Azure. OpenShift Local is like a mini cluster that(…)

Cloudbees CD/RO, send and receive parameters with bash / Ansible scripts

Sending a pipeline parameter to a bash or Ansible script is easy, but the reverse is less obvious. In this article, we’ll look at how to return parameters from an Ansible script to a Cloudbees CD/RO job. The(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)