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By Stéphane Métairie. Context For companies that primarily host their services in "legacy" systems, the movement toward Infrastructure-as-code poses the question of tool choice. Terraform and Ansible are commonly used tools in this area. But, when, how to use Terraform, Ansible? And do we have to use both? Important Note: This article intentionally ignores Kubernetes […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction to Kubernetes Storage As you may already know, Kubernetes is a free and open-source container orchestration platform. It helps you manage containerized environments and provides amazing features such as self-healing, rollout, rollbacks, auto scaling and packaging ! Storage may not be your main concern if you are running stateless workloads or […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction Ansible is a well known open source automation engine which can automate, provision, handle configuration management and orchestration. As it doesn’t need an agent by using SSH protocol, and because you don’t need to write code using simple modules, Ansible eases the deployment and management of your applications ! Before discussing […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction As you already know, Kubernetes is a great and popular container orchestrator. You can use its features to deploy your applications and it will take care of many things like scaling, rollouts and rollbacks or even self-healing as described below. To do so, you will write manifests in YAML format (deployments, […]

By Sami Amoura. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a service to deploy a fully managed Kubernetes cluster. This service is called Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Amazon EKS gives you the flexibility to start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud or on-premises. Amazon EKS helps you provide highly-available and secure clusters and […]

By Yann Albou. Working with Kubernetes on a local machine when you are a Dev or an Ops is not as easy as we could think. So, how to easily create a local Kubernetes cluster that would meet these needs ? At SoKube we heavily use k3d and k3s for these purposes. More than a […]

By Sébastien Féré. Over the last twenty years, Open Source Software components – powered by a vibrant Open Source community – have radically changed the way we develop software. A "proxy" instance of a Binary Repository can do much more than just caching artifacts. This article details some opportunities from security best practices to advanced […]

By Fabrice Vergnenègre. Photo by David Marcu on Unsplash — TL;DR Who said practising GitOps always requires complex tooling and expensive infrastructure, even for simple scenarios ? In this article, we will demonstrate how to setup (and run) a GitOps environment with K3D and Argo CD for local development. Operating an application the GitOps way […]

By Sébastien Féré. A few days ago, I passed the CKAD exam – the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer – and scored a respectable 95% and also got rewarded with the CKAD badge! I hope my story will help you either in getting your certification or in giving you the desire to pass one of the CNCF […]