Python templates in GCP Deployment Manager
Imagine we have Deployment Manager’s config file that creates a virtual machine from certain image and assigns an ephemeral public IP address to it. Something like this: …
Automating GCP Infrastructure with Deployment Manager
I don’t know how and why, but even though for the last couple of years I was spending at least few hours a week doing something …
Drones and possible blog theme shift
When I started this blog my initial impulse was to write about things that I usually work with or at least have a relation to. I …
Quick intro to helm – a package manager for Kubernetes
I suddenly realized that I haven’t blogged about Kubernetes for quite a while. But there’s so much happening in that area! For instance, even though creating …
The mystery of package downgrade issue
In last six or so weeks Microsoft managed to release whole bunch of .NET Core 2.1 SDKs (Preview 2, Release Candidate 1, Early Access, RTM) …
Service mesh implemented via iptables
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 …
Playing with a service mesh
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 …
Debugging .NET Core app from a command line on Linux
Million years ago, way before the ice age, I was preparing small C++ project for “Unix Programming” university course and at some point had to …
Sending proactive messages with Microsoft Bot Framework
I was thinking again about that bot, who supposedly will monitor unreliable tests for me, and suddenly realized one thing. All examples I dealt with were dialog …
Playing with Microsoft Bot Framework
Part of my job description is our CI/CD and it kind of implies that I’m interested in keeping the build green. It doesn’t mean that I immediately …