Docker

Run 2 specific GitLab Runners in local containers for CI/CD Pipeline

By testing GitLab CI/CD pipeline on my free SaaS GitLab account, I’ve explored the setup of specific GitLab Runner in containers on my local machine. For those who don’t want to use the shared runners of GitLab (it’s free but(…)

Using Docker containers for Ansible testing

I’d like to share in this post a quick setup using Docker containers for Ansible testing. I wanted to create a small lab for my Ansible scripts testing. The natural option that came to my mind was to create some(…)

Extract all DDL from an Oracle database

Introduction Extracting DDL is sometime useful for creating similar objects in another database without data. Basically everything can be extracted from a running Oracle database. The needs My customer asked me to replicate a database without any data. The goal(…)

Rancher installation on RHEL 8 compatible Linux

This Blog is about the installation of Rancher Community on a RHEL 8 compatible Linux, for this Blog i choose AlmaLinux 8.4, but i will also work on Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate. Base is an AlmaLinux / Rocky(…)

DevOpsDays 2020 Geneva – Day 2

As promised in my previous blog, I will give you a short feedback on the second day here at DevOpsDays 2020 Geneva. In fact, I prepared a very interesting program of sessions to attend and people(…)

Jenkins X ecosystem: Kaniko as image builder

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(…)

NFS Storage Configuration for Kubernetes

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(…)

Create a Kubernetes cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine

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(…)

Kubernetes DNS resolution using CoreDNS (force update deployment)

After installing your Kubernetes cluster composed by masters and workers, a few configurations steps need to complete. In fact, the join command is not the last operation to perform, in order to have a fully operational cluster. See how(…)

Windows Docker containers, when platform matters

A couple of days ago, I got a question from a customer about an issue he ran into when trying to spin up a container on Windows.