How To Spin Helm Ephemerals with Reliza Hub: Tutorial

Here I will show how to configure Self-Serviced Ephemeral Instances for Helm projects with Reliza Hub. This is going to be a complete end-to-end tutorial. I will use Rebom project as an example and use GitHub Actions as our CI platform – although any other CI may be used in practice. Note that any Kubernetes… Continue reading How To Spin Helm Ephemerals with Reliza Hub: Tutorial

How To Convert Kubernetes YAML to Helm

And Why Helm is Actually a Light-Weight Approach to Kubernetes deployment Recently I saw several comments on various forums suggesting that Helm is a heavy-weight approach. Instead, people were resorting to using plain YAML applied via Kubectl and trying to use sed for modifications. In some cases they were going towards Kustomize even though Helm… Continue reading How To Convert Kubernetes YAML to Helm

GitOps for Ephemerals is a Mess

I was working with Ephemeral instances for quite some time now. At this point I believe a different solution rather than pure GitOps is needed for them to operate efficiently. I’ll give some explanation below. I What are Ephemerals? Currently in DevOps / SRE, we define 2 types of Deployment instances: Persistent Instances and Ephemerals.… Continue reading GitOps for Ephemerals is a Mess

In Love With Ukraine

Here is a short summary of my thoughts on what’s happening and some possible actions around it, presented in bullet points. Just for the background – I’m a Jew, born in Russia, moved to Canada almost 15 years ago (left Russia for political reasons). My first education is in Journalism, which included a lot of… Continue reading In Love With Ukraine

6 DevOps Trends for 2022

Traditionally before the New Year, I list most significant DevOps trends for the next year. Here is my list for 2022. 1. SBOMs are Getting Traction I previously mentioned Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) in my list for 2021. The key trigger accelerating industry-wide SBOM adoption was Biden’s recent Executive Order requiring vendors to provide… Continue reading 6 DevOps Trends for 2022

Reliza Log4j Update

Since the discovery of first major CVE related to Log4j we had to fix several components in Reliza Hub exposed to this vulnerability. There was some back-and-forth with more CVEs published, after which we updated components one more time to make sure we are at 2.17.0 version of Log4j. This effort concluded on December 18,… Continue reading Reliza Log4j Update

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