Blog about DevOps, distributed applications and microservices
It finally happened. With release of Windows Server 2016 you can run Docker containers with Windows inside. There’s no Virtual Machine hiding somewhere in order for that to happen, or some sort of Windows emulation built on top of Linux core. It’s true Windows in true Docker, which supports Dockerfiles, docker-compose and other docker-goodies.
Having an app running from within Docker container is fun, that’s for sure. But do you know what would be even more fun? Many apps running from within containers and talking to each other. Imagine that after playing enough with microservices, you finally decided to split some real monolithic web application into: container, serving static web content, and container, serving data through some sort … Continue reading “Communication between Docker containers”
So last time I mentioned, that another Kubernetes compatible service mesh – Conduit – has chosen another approach to solve the problem. Instead of enabling the mesh at machine level via e.g. http_proxy env variable, it connects k8s pods or deployments to it one by one. I really like such kinds of ideas that make 180° turn on solving the problem, … Continue reading “Service mesh implemented via iptables”
I was looking for something new to play with the other day and somehow ended up with the thing called a service mesh. Pretty interesting concept, I can tell you. Not a game changing, or world peace bringing, but still nice intellectual concept with several scenarios where it can make life much simpler. Let’s have a look.
Well, it might seem surprising, given what this blog is usually about, but during most of my career my main focus was… in front-end development. Yup, JavaScript and friends. It wasn’t the only thing I did, but definitely the biggest one. After moving to Canada focus shifted a little bit: I still do occasional front-end tasks for our web project, which … Continue reading “Caveman’s brief look into modern front-end”
Our company is obsessed with IT security, so even though that’s not really my area, every other week I hear something new about the subject, whether I like it or not. However, sometimes interesting thing happen, when I learn about something I’ve been using for years, but only now realized that it actually has a name. I’m talking … Continue reading “Web application firewalls”
I’ve been looking through the latest Technology Radar issue and here’s what I found in its new Techniques section: “TDD’ing containers”. Wow. Mentally, I’m not yet ready to connect TDD to containers, but I took a look at the tools used for that, and those are quite interesting. The first one is serverspec, which allows running BDD-like tests against … Continue reading “How to unit test.. a server with goss”
So far all examples I made for Docker in Swarm Mode or Kubernetes blog posts were built around some sort of a service: web server, message queue, message bus. After all, “service” is a main concept in Swarm Mode, and even the whole micro-service application thing has, well, a “service” in it. But what about … Continue reading “One-off Kubernetes jobs”
Much to my surprise, starting from the last week Kubernetes became the part of my job description. It’s no longer something just interesting to try, I actually have to understand it now. And as you probably could tell from my older k8s post, I’m not quite there. The post sort of builds a logical example (containerized web … Continue reading “Dissecting Kubernetes example”
I’ve been using Gitlab CI for a while now and until certain point it worked really well. We had three build servers (GitLab runners) in the beginning, and when number of teammates or build steps and therefore commits and build jobs increased, I’d just add one more server to handle an extra load and felt that problem was solved. … Continue reading “Autoscaling build servers with Gitlab CI”