PinnedMember-onlyIssue #6 — Cloud-Native Untangled: 05/09/2022–05/15/2022Your Weekly Summary of What I Found More Relevant in the Cloud-Native Ecosystem. — Summary Cloud Cost Management is the topic for this issue and I hope I have brought to you a different perspective to first think about how to improve cloud cost management but also how tools and techniques we have at our disposal to optimize cloud costs. We will start with a…Cloud Computing3 min readCloud Computing3 min read
Oct 24Member-onlyTIBCO BW Hashicorp Vault Configuration: More Powerful and Better Secured in 3 StepsThis article aims to show the TIBCO BW Hashicorp Vault Configuration to integrate your TIBCO BW application with the secrets stored in Hashicorp Vault, mainly for the externalization and management of password and credentials resources. As you probably know, in the TIBCO BW application, the configuration is stored in Properties…Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
Oct 17Member-onlyCreate Secrets in Hashicorp Vault Using 2 Easy WaysCreate secrets in Hashicorp Vault is one of the most important and relevant things you can do once you have installed Hashicorp Vault on your environment, probably by recovering and getting these secrets from the components they need it. …Hashicorp4 min readHashicorp4 min read
Oct 10Member-onlyHadolint: Best Practices for your Dockerfiles In 3 Different ModelsHadolint is an open-source tool that will help you ensure that all the Dockerfiles you create follow all the Dockerfile best practices available in an automated way. Hadolint, as the name already suggested, is a linter tool and, because of that, can also help you to teach you all these…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Oct 3Member-onlyOpenLens vs Lens: A New Battle Starts in January 2023Again another battle between the OpenSource version and the company-sponsored one — We already talked about Lens several times in different articles but today I am bringing it here OpenLens because after the release of Lens 6 in late July a lot of questions have arrises, especially regarding its change and the relationship with the OpenLens project, so I thought it could…Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
Sep 26Member-onlyHelm Loops: Helm Hack #1Discover how to add Helm Loops to your helm charts to provide more dynamic behavior to your Helm Charts. — Introduction Helm Charts are becoming the default de-factor solution when you want to package your Kubernetes deployment to be able to distribute or quickly install it in your system. Defined several times as the apt for Kubernetes for its similarity with the ancient package manager from GNU/Linux Debian-like distributions, it seems…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Sep 19Member-onlyHashicorp Vault Installation on Kubernetes: Quick and Simple in 3 Easy StepsIn this article, we are going to cover the Hashicorp Vault Installation on Kubernetes. Hashicorp Vault has become one of the industry standards when we talk about managing secrets and sensitive data in production environments, and this covers cloud and non-cloud-native deployments. But especially in Kubernetes, this is a critical…Kubernetes3 min readKubernetes3 min read
Sep 12Member-onlyHow To Inject Secrets in Pods To Improve Security with Hashicorp Vault in 5 MinutesThis article will cover how to inject secrets in Pods using Hashicorp Vault. In previous articles, we covered how to install Hashicorp Vault in Kubernetes, configure and create secrets in Hashicorp, and how tools such as TIBCO BW can retrieve them. …Technology5 min readTechnology5 min read
Sep 12Member-onlyBanzaiCloud Logging Operator in Kubernetes Simplified in 5 minutes.In the previous article, we described what capability BanzaiCloud Logging Operator provides and its main features. So, today we are going to see how we can implement it. The first thing we need to do is to install the operator itself, and to do that, we have a helm chart…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Aug 29Member-onlyEmpower Log Aggregation in Kubernetes with BanzaiCloud Logging OperatorWe already have talked about the importance of Log Aggregation in Kubernetes and why the change in the behavior of the components makes it a mandatory requirement for any new architecture we deployed today. To solve that part, we have a lot of different stacks that you probably have heard…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
