Alex K.

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Posts in January 2019

DevOps Friday: Using SonarQube with Azure DevOps

If you never used static analyzers in your project, it’s about time. The idea is not new, although, it’s a huge asset to the development business. SonarQube is a set of static analyzers that can be used to identify areas of improvement in your code (eliminate code smells, excessive complexity, code inconsistencies, security vulnerabilities etc.). It also allows you to analyze the technical debt
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DevOps Friday: Kubernetes advanced configuration - introducing Ingress

Assuming you read all my previous articles (or at least part of them) related to Kubernetes, you’re ready to move from theory to practice. Meaning, you know K8s Fundamentals, how to deal with Kubernetes secretes and even how to deploy all this stuff using Azure DevOps. Part 1: The simplest scenario Now we need to have a more production-like environment. Using IP’s to access your services is
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DevOps Friday: Configure Helm for AKS

There are many ways to automate the same in the world of DevOps. One of the tools from the arsenal that could be potentially used for the matter is Helm. I’m sure you’ve heard of it already and my point here not to teach you how to run Helm charts but how to get started by configuring Helm for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). Before we get started, let’s agree on terminology: Helm chart (or
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