Traditionally at the year end I like to note most significant trends that I see unfolding in the DevOps world. I did not know about the level of disruption that Covid would cause when I put “Remote Asynchronous Workforce” on the last year’s list. As we now know this actually turned out to be the… Continue reading DevOps Trends for 2021
Reliza Hub: Individual vs Bundled deployments
Pretty excited to announce a new feature we just added to Reliza Hub. As requested, it is now possible to choose deployment strategy per instance – that said to use either Individual or Bundled deployment strategy. You can switch between deployment types on the Instance screen, after expanding instance settings: Deployment types function as following:… Continue reading Reliza Hub: Individual vs Bundled deployments
DevOps Bundles – New Name of The Game
The way we deploy software for the Web has come a long way from bare metal to VPCs to on-demand VMs with SOA to microservices. Latest big game in the DevOps world was container orchestration which is largely being won by Kubernetes and its ecosystem. What is coming next? I am starting to believe that… Continue reading DevOps Bundles – New Name of The Game
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 2021-12-20: While the instructions below still work, the current recommended way to use k3s on Windows is via Rancher Desktop. The original instructions were for microk8s but I had glitches with its operations on Windows.So I replaced microk8s with k3s and it worked.Algorithm of installation goes as following: 1. Install WSL2 – instructions here:… 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