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Cloud Native Academy

Cloud Native Academy is on-the-job experience. It's a way to gain real-world experience through hands-on learning labs.

Kubernetes

How to Deploy Anything to Kubernetes (Part 1 - Containerizing an Application)

Do we really mean anything? No. Because not everything is capable of being deployed with Kubernetes, and some things are not worth deploying on Kubernetes. Those things are beyond the scope of this writing, but in a future series, we will explore the options available for getting those applications onto

Kubernetes

ELI5: Kubernetes

Explain it like I'm five: Kubernetes. Here are the big highlights that define the use case of Kubernetes.

Kubernetes

Create a full-featured Kubernetes Cluster on your PC

With only a single command, you could have a fully-functional cluster running locally in seconds!

github

Sorting GitHub Repositories

GitHub has taken a strong stance on not implementing a folder structures to support sorting of repositories. Why is that? They believe that it is unnecessary – and it is. Adding folders would add a layer of confusion that can be solved easily at a more meta level. This holds true

Career

How to Keep up with the Rapid Pace of Azure

I work with Azure a lot. And as a Solutions Architect, I often find myself seeking answers to rather deep questions, refreshing my memory on old tech or concepts, or seeking new technology or solutions to solve my problems. I admit, it's extremely hard to keep up. Whatever

Kubernetes

Set a Default Namespace for Kubectl (And Easily Jump Between Namespaces)

A few quick and easy ways to switch contexts rapidly.

Kubernetes

The Purpose of Labels and Selectors in Kubernetes

Logically isolate and group objects inside of Kubernetes with loose coupling.

manager

How to Make your Developers Work Faster

Find the courage to slow down so you can speed up. This counterintuitive approach is indubitably the most effective way to create a high-performing team or organization.

git

Choosing a Git Branching Strategy

There are several out there, and a lot of opinions to go with them. Having served in a consulting capacity for many organizations, ranging from small startups to very large enterprises, I have seen all of the major strategies. I've even seen organizations make up their own strategies

Azure Kubernetes Service

How Many Kubernetes Clusters You Should Have 🚢

At my current company, the powers that be have bought into a multi-cluster approach. I'm not saying 1 cluster per environment or region. No. I'm saying 1 non-production  and 1 production cluster per system per region. Essentially, each team gets their own pair of clusters in

DevSecOps

Pipelines as Code - Don't Reinvent the Wheel

The term "Pipelines as Code" means that you are defining the process through which your code moves from source control, all the way to running in production. This practice is absolutely necessary if you want to build a high performing development process that allows your system to be

Azure Kubernetes Service

GitOps with Terraform for Kubernetes

Did you know that Terraform can run kubectl commands? Yep! There's a provider for Kubernetes. The Kubernetes provider has a growing list of resources that you can manage via Terraform. For instance, you could declaratively and explicitly manage Kubernetes permissions via Terraform by defining roles and role bindings.

Kubernetes

Migrating to Kubernetes: A Manager's Guide to Effective Transition (Part 1)

For teams that are looking to build out a Kubernetes cluster and migrate their applications, my first reaction is always the same, no matter the skill-level and capability of the team. Here's something of how the conversation goes: First, let's identify your Kubernetes administrators and let

Kubernetes

When to use a StatefulSet in Kubernetes

To put it simply, a StatefulSet should be used to govern one or more related pods that need to track state in some way. A StatefulSet would be what you use instead of a Deployment. StatefulSets are a particularly cool implementation detail among Kubernetes workload APIs. It works very similarly

Career

How to Get Started with Kubernetes

When getting started with Kubernetes, I was extremely lost. I tried jumping straight into the Kubernetes documentation, but I wasn't able to make sense of it all and where to begin. It's okay if that's where you are – that's totally normal. So,