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Container Development - Getting Started

Container Development - Getting Started Application development is something that can be done so many different ways its hard to keep track of all the tools that are available. Some just use whatever standard toolset is available while others try to find "3rd party" tools for their chosen language to

Tekton is groovy...

Lets not upset anyone, Tekton doesn't use "Groovy" as its configuration language (thankfully). Tekton is groovy in its own right however. I believe Ash said it best: Short History of CI/CD Tooling For those that don't understand what Groovy is (the syntax used for Jenkins Pipelines), I'm happy for

mineOps - Part 6: ArgoCD to the Rescue

ArgoCD for mineOps Since it seems we are now using Kubernetes and our CEO is happy and doesn't appear to be playing buzzword bingo anymore, its time to do something for us to make our lives easier. After spending some time scouring the internet, it looks like we may have

mineOps - Part 5: Making Containers Highly Available

Before this post begins, I would like to apologize for the long delay in getting this part of the series done. There were a few challenges in the way I was attempting to write this and life got in the way as well. But we are done with the Kubernetes

mineOps - Part 4: Containers Have Joined the Party

In Part 3 we started to use Git to track our files for the company and then put these files in GitHub as our remote repository. Business is good, we've got Minecraft Servers running and happy customers, but trouble is on the horizon. Despite things going well, our CEO has

mineOps - Part 3: Keeping it together with Git

In Part 2 of this series we began to use Ansible to manage our customer servers from deployment, backup and configuration. We ended that post discussing what to do with all of those files which has led us here, to Git. There are some out there who are not familiar

mineOps - Part 2: Automation with Ansible

In Part 1 of this series we went over manually deploying a Minecraft Server as part of a fictitious business to show their journey of growth through DevOps. In this post we will go over automating all that was done in Part 1 through Ansible. We will also touch on

mineOps - Part 1: Manual Minecraft Server Installation

As was discussed in the Introduction to this series, we will be focusing on deploying Minecraft Servers as part of a fictitious business. This business needs to get up and going with their first customer, so we need to get at least one Minecraft Server up and running. Let's get

DevOps Through Minecraft

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DevOps Through Minecraft

What is DevOps? Development + Operations aka DevOps has been a buzz word for some quite some time now. Most people in the Technology industry probably have some idea of what it is or what they perceive it to be. Kelsey Hightower has once called it "Support groups for sysadmins" which

VS Code - The Best IDE?

VS Code - The Best IDE?

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you've undoubtedly heard about Microsoft's open source code editor, Visual Studio Code. In typical Microsoft fashion it bears a name similar to that of one of its products, but is not in the same product line. Unlike Visual

My HomeLab

Working for Red Hat and focusing on Red Hat products, specifically OpenShift, I try to utilize the same products at home. This allows me to have a similar environment to what my customers use and keep my mind sharp on various products (and potential pitfalls). Every VM and host runs

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Long time reader, first time blogger (in a decade or so). For a more detailed insight into who I am, checkout the about page here: https://blog.kywa.io/about/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This blog will be focusing on a few different things. I will try to keep this blog as tech