Building a Blog With a CMS Using Hugo and Netlify
I consume a ton of media - books, shows, movies, games, you name it. And there are moments or lines in them that stick with me long after I’m done. So, I wanted a place to keep all these gems. Instagram was a big no-no for me because I have a love-hate relationship with that app. I wanted something different. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a convenient solution to save and list all these snippets for later viewing....
Setting Up a GitOps Workflow with Argo CD and GitHub Actions
GitOps is gaining increasing popularity these days, and for good reason. The principles of GitOps promote the use of Git repositories as the ultimate source of truth for application infrastructure and configuration. This concept revolves around storing all application-related files and manifests in a Git repository, leveraging it as the central hub for deployment management. By combining GitOps principles with declarative continuous delivery tools like Argo CD, you can significantly improve your deployment workflow and expedite the shipping processes, achieving faster and more efficient results....
Platform Engineering and Developer Experience: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Around a year ago, the term “developer experience” was all the rage. It was on everyone’s lips, with discussions about its immense importance. However, the current focus seems to have shifted towards “Platform Engineering” - a term that, in my personal opinion, has become quite convoluted. Nevertheless, I feel both concepts essentially revolve around the same idea. Platform Engineering is merely a means to achieve a better developer experience. But what exactly does that mean?...
If You're Using Helm, Why Not Give It a Pretty UI As Well?
Helm Dashboard is an open-source project by Komodor that offers a visual and user-friendly way to manage and visualize all the Helm charts installed in your clusters. Instead of using the terminal, you can leverage the Helm Dashboard’s intuitive UI to perform a variety of tasks that make working with Helm a breeze. Here are some of its key features: Visually pleasing chart list: The dashboard presents all the installed charts in an aesthetically pleasing manner....
Deploying Your First Microservice to Kubernetes
I have written extensively about different Kubernetes concepts in my previous blogs, but I haven’t covered a proper, step-by-step hands-on guide for getting started with Kubernetes. In this article, my plan is to do exactly that. After all, there’s only so much you can learn by reading without trying things out yourself. We will take a simple microservice-based application, containerize it, and deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. I will be using Google Cloud for this, but you can use any cloud provider to follow along....