Overview: I talked about deploying Velero using ArgoCD in my previous post, but A lot of people reached out that their team do not have an active to Azure active directory(Dont want to get into the hassle with IT team) hence wanted to a different method of providing credentials for Velero …

Overview: Velero is an open-source tool that is used for backup and restore, perform disaster recovery and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and the data in persistent volumes. In addition to that users can use Velero to replicate the production cluster to development and testing clusters Velero consist of a server that…

Overview Semantic Version is great but implementing it in GitHub Actions for bumping Helm Chart is not that straight forward(There is not much information out there on how to do it for Helm Chart) Here is how I do semantic versioning of Helm Chart in my GitHub Workflows, Refer the sample…

Overview We’re all big fans of container images. In this post, I’d want to focus on the most important aspect of using container images: the CI Pipeline for container images In the Kubernetes world, in order for the pods to use an image, the image must be pulled from the container…

Overview Semantic Version is great but implementing it in GitHub Actions for bumping docker images is not that straight forward(There is not much information out there on how to do it for Docker images) Here is how I do semantic versioning of Docker images in my GitHub Workflows, Refer the sample…

Overview Prometheus is the perfect tool for monitoring time-series metrics, and it’s interesting how many Kubernetes custom resources we get with by using prometheus-operator. So, using the PrometheusRule Custom Resource obtained using prometheus-operator, this is how we can use the PrometheusRule Custom Resource to manage Prometheus alerting and recording rules using…

Overview Grafana Loki is fantastic, and love it, however the only flaw I found was that the alerting and recording rules could only be set in the Helm chart’s values.yml(or one configMap mounted by ruler if not using Helm to deploy Loki) This meant that the only option to use GitOps…

Overview We can use nektos/act to run the actions locally instead of needing to commit/push every time we want to test out the changes we’re making to our .github/workflows/ files (or any changes to embedded GitHub actions) With act, we can use the GitHub Actions defined in our .github/workflows/ …

Overview Typically, we add Grafana dashboards from the Grafana UI, either by importing or by creating them. However, many DevOps Engineers and SREs prefer the declarative method of adding resources. So here is how we can add Grafana dashboards as configMaps Prerequisites Kubernetes cluster GitOps workflows are set up for the cluster…