Local developer CI/CD with Tilt

This post is a continuation into the world of locally executing CI/CD for developers, with my prior post being about Skaffold.  In this post I'll look at another one of these tools called Tilt. Background The world of software development and how apps are run in production environments has come a long way over the …

Continuous delivery with Flux

The acronym "CI/CD" and its respective phrases (continuous integration & continuous [delivery|deployment]) are sometimes munged together yet there are clear definitions and lines of delineation for each, despite many CI/CD offerings out there that enable you to use a single framework to implement both sides of the CI/CD equation using the same tooling. The intent …

Retrying failed operations

This is a long overdue followup to my prior article titled "Reactive re-engineering with Akka" in which I described an approach to processing large amounts of data more efficiently by using reactive actors and how they were used to massively scale up an existing data synchronization platform that was starting to bottleneck. In this article …

Local CI/CD with Skaffold

The world of software development and how apps are run in production environments has come a long way over the years. Starting with bare metal physical servers, we evolved to virtual machines, onward to LXC, Docker daemons, and now our current state of container orchestration via things like Kubernetes. The other side of the world... …

Migrate from Helm 2 Tillerless to Helm 3

If you're like many others out there, you've been holding off of migrating to Helm 3 until at least version 3.1 is out. Well as of early February it finally was released. Since then I've recently gone through some analysis of migrating Helm 2 releases (with the Tillerless plugin) to Helm 3.x and figured I'd …

Why doesn’t Azure DevOps git repos get any love?

One team I've been working with utilizes Azure DevOps Git Repos, not necessarily by an act of free will, but more one due to their governance policies and budget reasons that are above their heads. Azure Git repos are fine, its Git, it works and gets the job done etc, but when it comes to …

git2consul alternatives: key-value filesystem syncing for Consul

I've recently been working on a project where a set of application runtime configuration was stored in Consul by using Consul's key-value store functionality. The application could dynamically materialize its configuration at runtime by using consul-template which is another handy tool by Hashicorp. Consul-template permits you "watch" a Consul KV space and automatically render Golang …