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MAY
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DevOps DevOps practices using Azure DevOps (and not only), and automation
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AUG
Azure Resource Inventory (ARI)
As cloud environments grow more complex, keeping track of every resource within an Azure subscription can quickly become overwhelming. Whether you're managing a small deployment or an enterprise-scale environment, the need for a comprehensive overview of your resources is essential for maintaining control, ensuring compliance, and optimizing costs. This is where Azure Resource Inventory (ARI)
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AUG
Changing editor for Git
When using Git on the command line, you may encounter a challenge with the default editor when writing commit messages. While typically, you can use the -m flag to include the commit message directly in the command like git commit -m "My commit text", sometimes you may need to amend a commit or accidentally run git commit without specifying a commit message. In these instances, you might be
04
DEC
Deploy Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator to AKS
Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes is the cloud-native way to manage your own database-as-a-service (DaaS) in any public, private, or hybrid cloud. Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes is an enterprise deployment solution for PostgreSQL that unlocks true open-source cost savings and efficiency with the flexibility to run your databases on any infrastructure from a single interface. 'Cui bono' you
13
NOV
Enable SSH for containerized Azure Functions
Very often, in the active development phase, regular logging does not help too much. Azure Functions that process some data or heavier payloads (like images or video files even) tend to store temporary processing data inside the container. By default, there's no way you can get inside the container to take a look at what's going on at the file system level. For such purposes, Secure Shell (SSH)
01
OCT
Design your app for the cloud (best practices)
I had no opportunity to write in recent days. In this topic, I decided to share something unusual and highly theoretical. I want to talk about the best practices for adapting apps for the cloud (Microsoft Azure, particularly, but most of them are applicable to any cloud provider). I hope that the concepts outlined below will help you to understand the process better, and hence, apply it in
24
SEP
Fixing an issue with self-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines
If you decided to go with a self-hosted agent(s) as I described in one of my previous articles, you might run into specific runtime issues related to the absence of a framework or software installed on a target machine. One such error is “[error] No agent found in pool … which satisfies the specified demands: java Agent.Version -gtVersion 2…x”. The ways it looks in Azure Pipelines: The error
03
FEB
Google Cloud Architect certification prep notes
As an Architect and consultant, I try to broaden my knowledge horizon by learning something new. Getting the new certifications and keeping those I already have up to date is an essential part of my job. This article is devoted to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and respective certification, i.e., Professional Cloud Architect. I began my journey with the set of courses form Coursera. The beauty
20
DEC
SSH keys to access your VMs securely
We have already covered SSL certificates preparation and conversion in the previous topic. For completeness sake, I’d like to cover another important aspect in DevOps, which is SSH keys configuration. The case where you may need an SSH key are: Accessing a Linux-based Virtual Machine (VM) Accessing Git repository Build/release pipeline Deployment automation tools like Chef/Ansible/Puppet etc.
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DEC