Author: Himanshu Chaudhary

Diagrams/Architecture as a Code

Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re seeing more and more tools that enable you to create software architecture and other Diagrams as Code. The main benefit of using this concept is that majority of the Diagrams as Code tools can be scripted and integrated into a built pipeline for generating automatic documentation. The other benefit responsible for the growing use of Diagrams as code to create software architecture is that Continue Reading

Create Kubernetes Manifests files Quickly

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this article, we will learn some of the easy and fast methods to create a Kubernetes YAML manifest for testing and deploying applications on Kubernetes. So, whenever we want to deploy anything on Kubernetes then we tend to search for the Kubernetes YAML files. As no one wants to write every line of the YAML file. Let’s look at some of the tips to Continue Reading

How does SRE support DevOps principles & philosophies?

Reading Time: 4 minutes With the growing complexity of application development, organizations are increasingly adopting methodologies that enable reliable, scalable software. DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) are two approaches that enhance the product release cycle through enhanced collaboration, automation, and monitoring. Both approaches utilize automation and collaboration to help teams build resilient and reliable software. But there are fundamental differences in what these approaches offer and how they operate. So, Continue Reading

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Introduction to External DNS in Kubernetes

Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you running your workloads in GKE / EKS / AKS? Do you use the ingress and load balancer service type for public-facing domains? Are your sub-domains increasing and changing regularly? If yes, then external DNS is for you. Problem Let us suppose you have a web application running in your Kubernetes Cluster. You might have a public-facing load balancer so that your application is Continue Reading

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Configure SSL certificate with cert-manager on Kubernetes

Reading Time: 3 minutes After hosting an application on Kubernetes we need to configure TLS/SSL certificate to serve our application over HTTPS securely. Configuring certificates in Kubernetes is a little tedious task because we need to apply certificates, configure them for auto-renewal and get certificates from trusted CA automatically. Cert-manager comes here to rescue certificate management. What is a cert-manager? cert-manager adds certificates and certificates issuer as resource types Continue Reading

Special Variables in Bash Scripting

Reading Time: 4 minutes Special variables are the variables that have a predefined meaning within a computer programming language. They are different in different languages but in this blog, we are going through the special variables in bash scripting. List of special shell variables These are the special shell variables that are set internally by the shell and which are available for the user: Variables Description $0 The filename Continue Reading

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An Introduction to AWS GovCloud

Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS GovCloud(US) is an isolated AWS region that is designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the AWS cloud. Basically, it helps customers to support their government compliance requirements (currently only in the US). Compliance requirements related to FISMA, fedRAMP, DoD, etc of the US.  FedRAMP stands for the “Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program”. DoD stands for the “Department of Defense”. FISMA stands Continue Reading

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How to integrate AWS simple email service with Jenkins

Reading Time: 5 minutes Jenkins is an open-source tool written in java and also have a plugin built for continuous integration and build automation purpose. It helps in automating the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery. In this blog, we are going to learn how can we integrate an AWS simple email service with Jenkins default email notifier. Email Continue Reading

Jenkins builds on Kubernetes cluster

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello everyone, so in this blog, we are going to learn today that how can we run Jenkins build in Kubernetes as a pod. Jenkins is an open-source tool written in java and also have a plugin built for continuous integration and build automation purpose. It helps in automating the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous Continue Reading

Creating and mounting an ext4 file system

Reading Time: 4 minutes What is Ext4 file system? The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a widely-used journaling file system for Linux. The ext4 file system is a scalable extension of the ext3 file system. It was designed as a progressive revision of the ext3 file system and overcomes a number of limitations in ext3. After installation, it is sometimes necessary to create a new file system. For Continue Reading

How to install python in target host using Ansible

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ansible is an open-source automation engine that automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. It is quickly becoming the popular configuration management tool today. It lets you to control and config the target nodes from single host machine. As we know the only requirement in target machine is the modern version of python installed. But what if the python version is not installed on Continue Reading

An Introduction to bitbucket pipeline

Reading Time: 4 minutes Bitbucket Pipelines is an integrated CI/CD service built into Bitbucket Cloud that’s integrated into the UI and sits alongside your repositories. It allows you to automatically build, test, and even deploy your code based on a configuration file in your repository. CI/CD tools are an integral part of a software team’s development cycle. Whether you’re using it to automate tests, a release process, or deployments to customers, Continue Reading

Jobs and CronJobs in Kubernetes

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Job creates one or more Pods and ensures that a specified number of them successfully terminate. Kubernetes Jobs are created to run pods for a short period of time which are running for completion as opposed to different objects in Kubernetes like Replicasets, Replication Controllers, Demonesets, which is run continuously. In Kubernetes , we have two types of jobs: Run to completion Cronjobs Run Continue Reading