kubernetes Kubernetes - 413 Request Entity Too Large How to solve 413 Request Entity Too Large in Kubernetes using NGINX Ingress.
kubernetes Restrict Traffic to a Pod in Kubernetes Let's say you have a pod that you want to reject all traffic to, unless the traffic is coming from a specific type of pod. In this case, an ingress
kubernetes Verify Node is Ready to join K8s Cluster What happens if a node joins a cluster before it is ready? Fortunately, you'll never have to find out. For this very reason, there is a test suite maintained by
culture On Creating Culture In the workplace, few things are more pervasive than a bad culture. A poor culture leads to clinical depression in employees, declined productivity, and poor results. It's rather unfortunate that
Azure 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
aks 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!
kubernetes Set a Default Namespace for Kubectl (And Easily Jump Between Namespaces) A few quick and easy ways to switch contexts rapidly.
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
aks 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
aad Visualize Azure Active Directory Role-Based Access Control for Kubernetes Acronyms: AAD - Azure Active Directory AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service RBAC - Role-based access control Recently, I implemented AAD for AKS RBAC. The documentation doesn't do a great job
culture A Guide to Building Tech Team Culture In my career, I have worked across so many types of companies. (List not in order) A large tech companyA large non-profitA small non-profitAn early-stage tech startupA small boot-strapped Azure
aks 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.
aks How to Fix Terraform Helm and Kubernetes Providers after implementing AAD RBAC in AKS I implemented the Azure Active Directory (AAD) integration with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) today in an existing cluster. I use Terraform to manage the
kubernetes Connect to an Application in Kubernetes as Localhost This is an incredibly useful tool. If you have an application running in Kubernetes and you need to connect to you application or database, you can simply forward a port
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
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
aks 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
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
terraform Terraform and Helm Did you know that you can fully create a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure using Terraform? Well you can take that one step further and also manage what's installed in
ci/cd CI/CD for Kubernetes Applications (Part 1) So you're ready to automate your application deployment to Kubernetes. You've made the right choice! Let's consider what a pipeline might look like if you are using Kubernetes manifests directly
GitOps What is GitOps Simply put: GitOps is a way of managing infrastructure, configuration, permissions, etc... in an explicit and repeatable way by simply pushing changes to git and allowing an associated pipeline to
ghost Ghost CMS in Kubernetes Let's get right down to business: Can Ghost CMS run in Kubernetes? Yes! This site is proof. It's running on my personal cluster in Digital Ocean (previously Azure Kubernetes Service,
golang Calculate Total Execution time to Compute Fibonacci Sequence An exponential big-O is represented by: O(c^n) The n in an exponential problem means that the time of each consecutive computation of n will increase by c^n.