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Azure pipelines is a cloud-based continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) platform to build, test and deploy applications to cloud environments like Azure, AWS, or GCP through Kubernetes Services, Azure Web Apps, and Azure Functions. Azure DevOps pipelines can build container images, push the images to a container registry and deploy these images to Kubernetes environments […]

Gone are the days when ideation to productization took years. Between 2011 and 2016, the cloud and DevOps showed the path to versatility and automation. However, every cloud offering had a unique interface. Multicloud was a wishful strategy, as automating operations even for a single cloud platform was a daunting task due to lack of standardization. When […]

Configurator Configurator is an open-source project that version controls and keeps Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets in sync with the deployments. Configurator uses CRDs to create CustomConfigMaps and CustomSecrets that in turn creates ConfigMaps and Secrets with a postfix. As and when a change is detected in a CustomConfigMap or a CustomSecret, Configurator automatically generates a new ConfigMap with a new postfix. This […]

gopaddle v4.1 is a minor update with a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. In this minor release we have introduced a gopaddle command line utility – gpctl to scaffold applications and import existing Kubernetes workloads to gopaddle. We have added support for Huawei Cloud and features that help in advanced configurations for service deployments and Docker builds. gpctl import Imports a pre-existing Kubernetes […]

Deploying on Kubernetes is one complex task, but dealing with surprises during maintenance is another. I can talk from my own experience of maintaining our gopaddle platform deployments on Kubernetes for more than a year now. Even with careful planning and collective knowledge from within the team, there are still hidden challenges in keeping the […]

Continuous Integration (CI) and Rolling Update to a kubernetes service can be achieved seamlessly when using gopaddle Deck and Propeller together. gopaddle Deck does an automatic source to image conversion and uses Kubernetes based build environments to build Docker images. gopaddle Propeller helps to create services and application templates that can be deployed across different […]

This new year brings a great relief to the Cloud Native Developers. Today we are pleased to announce gopaddle v4.0 release. This is a major release from gopaddle as we have extended the platform to address the developer needs right from the microservice transition to maintenance, in a simple, yet powerful fashion. Challenges today Refactoring […]

Introduction In order to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), application access, transaction and system logs need to be monitored. Fluentd is an open source, distributed logging and aggregation framework. It offers a unified logging layer to collate & filter logs of different nature like access logs, application logs and […]

2016 being the year of DevOps, IT organizations are already looking at scale-out and economies of scale, while e-commerce companies have understood the impact of agile delivery and zero downtime of their applications. As Gartner predicted, it is becoming a mainstream strategy employed by 25 per cent of Global 2000 organisations. While the need for […]