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: …
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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 …
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 …
Quick intro to etcd
It feels like last months I focused way too much on debugging and .NET Core and stopped paying attention to topic I enjoyed to blog about …
Sending .NET Core app metrics to Graphite with StatsD
It’s been more than a year since I connected a small piece of JavaScript to collectd plugin and started to gather our CI’s monitoring data and store it in …
One-off Kubernetes jobs
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, …
Dissecting Kubernetes example
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 …
Provisioning cluster of VMs with Ansible
Seeing how easy it was to provision one VM with Ansible, I can’t stop thinking: would it be as easy to deal with the whole cluster? …
Provisioning Vagrant VM with Ansible
I’m still looking for ways to automate hosts configuration. So far I’ve been using Vagrant + bash/PowerShell for configuring Linux or Windows hosts, but somehow I …
What exactly is Kubernetes
Kubernetes (or K8s) is another tool for orchestrating containerized apps in a cluster. It’s job is to find the right place for a container, fulfill its desired …