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Best Practices DevOps Orchestration

Dynamic Provisioning of Kubernetes Storage

If you are a professional Kubernetes storage administrator you probably performed dynamic provisioning of Kubernetes storage and avoided creating the volumes manually. We’ll see the motivation for dynamic storage provisioning and how using storage classes serves this purpose.

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DevOps networking

Kubernetes Networking Explained

Kubernetes networking might seem like a service we get for free from Kubernetes. Yet, it’s important to understand the principles and ideas behind it. Keep reading to find them out.

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CI/CD DevOps

Helm Charts CI/CD: Chart Dependencies

How to handle helm chart dependencies as part of CI/CD pipelines? Keep reading to find out. We’ll explore helm charts SDLC in the context of charts dependencies and base CI/CD on it.

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Best Practices CI/CD DevOps

How to test helm charts?

As a developer of helm charts’ CI/CD pipelines you probably wondered how to test Helm Charts. This may seem challenging because on the one hand, it seems like there’s nothing to test. On the other hand, you probably encountered numerous cases when the deployment of helm chart failed because of some missing bracket. Keep reading to find out how to test helm charts. If you later find this article useful take a look at the disclaimer for information on how to thank me.

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Automation CI/CD DevOps

Running minikube in Docker container

In the last article we saw how to run Jenkins Docker in Docker Agent. In addition to its obvious use case of building and pushing Docker images, I also noted that such an agent allows to run minikube inside. Today, I’ll show how to run minikube in Docker container. Of course, we’ll use docker in docker client and daemon images for that.

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Automation CI/CD DevOps

Jenkins Docker in Docker Agent

So you installed Jenkins helm chart on Kubernetes cluster. Now you want to build Docker images. How would you do that? There are several ways. Today, we’ll focus on creating and using Jenkins Docker in Docker agent for that purpose.

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Best Practices DevOps

Kubernetes Labels Demo

You’ve most likely stumbled on Kubernetes labels while writing deployment manifests. What are they for and how to use them? As always we’ll see a practical demo to answer these questions. Keep reading to find out more.

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DevOps Orchestration

Kubernetes Namespaces Explained

You have probably heard of Kubernetes namespaces. But what are they for? What purpose do they serve? How to use them correctly? Keep reading to find out.

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Best Practices DevOps Orchestration

Kubernetes ConfigMaps Demo

Kubernetes ConfigMaps provide Kubernetes Pods with configuration information. How to create and use ConfigMaps? What are Kubernetes ConfigMaps concepts? Keep reading to find out.

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Automation CI/CD DevOps Orchestration

Kubernetes Volumes Introduction

What are Kubernetes volumes, their types and concepts behind them? We’ll cover all of that below. In addition, we’ll see practical demo of using Kubernetes volumes.