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Hiring Lead Developers – Seeing The Project End State

I was recently reflecting on hiring and team management decisions. Particularly, how can you tell that a developer would make a good lead? My current thinking on this is following. The most important differentiator of whether a developer is a good lead is the ability to see the project end state. While junior and intermediate… Continue reading Hiring Lead Developers – Seeing The Project End State

Running k3s on Windows with WSL2

Update 2024: Another good alternative to Rancher Desktop is to run K3s via k3d project. It allows to create potentially multiple K3s clusters in docker. In example, to create a cluster you would simply type: That would expose its port 80 on your port 8087. Update 2021-12-20: While the instructions below still work, the current… Continue reading Running k3s on Windows with WSL2

List All Docker Containers with IP Addresses

Solution for one container can be found in this stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157721/how-to-get-a-docker-containers-ip-address-from-the-host Solution for all containers is below:

New Documentation Site for Reliza Hub

We have launched a new Documentation site for Reliza Hub – https://docs.relizahub.com. While this is very much work in progress, I would appreciate any feedback or comments via pm on twitter @taleodor.

Versioning Feature and Release Branches

For some time I was thinking how to solve a use case where we track both feature and release branches in Reliza Hub. The problem encountered is related to versioning. Here is the problem in a nutshell: if all branches share same versioning schema, then releases overlap and by simply looking at versions we don’t… Continue reading Versioning Feature and Release Branches

Recorded Video How to Import GitHub Repositories into Reliza Hub

7 Best Practices of Modern CI/CD

This is a summary of my research of modern CI/CD practices while working on Reliza Hub. This list is rather opinionated but I try to provide explanations why I hold specific opinions. Finally, I’m making this an ordered list, but it’s not actually sorted by importance. So, let’s start: 1. Separate CI and CD –… Continue reading 7 Best Practices of Modern CI/CD

Using Google App Engine and GitHub Actions for Static Websites

There are 2 most popular platforms today to host static websites: Netlify and Google App Engine (GAE). Netlify gained a lot of popularity recently because it provides integrated experience with building and deployment static websites – all in the same platform. GAE is more flexible in terms that it supports non-static web-sites as well but… Continue reading Using Google App Engine and GitHub Actions for Static Websites

On-demand builds on GitHub Actions with Reliza

10 days ago I published an article how we integrate Reliza Hub with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for continuous delivery to Kubernetes. Today I am going to improve the approach described there with a new feature we just added to Reliza Hub. The feature is on-demand builds for GitHub Actions that would run on new… Continue reading On-demand builds on GitHub Actions with Reliza