lifecycle

GKE: terraform lifecycle ‘ignore_changes’ to manage external changes to GKE cluster


Categories: Automation, DevOps, Hyperscaler

As much as Terraform pushes to be the absolute system of record for resources it creates, often valid external processes are assisting in managing those same resources. Here are some examples of legitimate external changes: Other company-approved Terraform scripts applying labeling to resources in order to track ownership and costs Security teams modifying IAM roles … GKE: terraform lifecycle ‘ignore_changes’ to manage external changes to GKE cluster

Kubernetes: volumeMount, emptyDir, and env equivalents during local Docker development


Categories: Containers, Kubernetes

Kubernetes has a rich way of expressing volumes/ volumeMounts for mounting files, emptyDir for ephemeral directories, and env/envFrom for adding environment variables to your container definition running on a Kubernetes cluster. However, if you are actively iterating on the development of an image, it may slow you down to require a deployment to a remote … Kubernetes: volumeMount, emptyDir, and env equivalents during local Docker development

CloudFoundry: The lifecycle of a simple BOSH release


Categories: Virtualization

BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. Software to be deployed via BOSH is called a release, and in this article I will use a very simple release to illustrate how to create, deploy, version, and revert these releases.

CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application


Categories: Containers

Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale.  It supports multiple infrastructure platforms (EC2, VMware, OpenStack), and is able to standardize deployment, logging,  scaling, and routing in a way that is friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. In this series of articles, we will use the spring-music web application … CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application