Alex K.

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Posts in 2020

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
Azure DevOps Kubernetes PostgreSQL

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)
Azure DevOps

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
Azure DevOps

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
Azure DevOps SonarQube

Beautify your Windows 10 terminal

Windows Terminal became generally available in January this year. It supposes to replace the existing command line and offers many curious features, like: multiple tabs (for quick quickly switching between Windows Command Prompt, PowerShell, Azure CLI, Linux, etc.), create custom key bindings (shortcut keys for opening or closing tabs, copy+paste, etc.), uses the search feature, and custom themes
Windows WSL ZSH

Install Ubuntu Linux on Windows 10

DevOps craft is tough, no doubts. If you’re a big Windows fan, it makes the business even tougher, as there are tasks that could only be performed in Linux. This article is not about the profession challenges, but rather about the approaches of how you could resolve ones. There are several categories of tasks you may need Linux for: Running or developing Bash shell scripts Running Linux-
Windows WSL Linux

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
Certification DevOps GCP