devops

How to create an Azure PostgreSQL instance without public access and passwords using Terraform while ensuring security. Additionally, I will explain how to access this database from a container app using access tokens.

Nginx is a popular Web-server/-proxy that is often used to serve frontend applications within a Docker container. But did you know that you can also implement some (business) logic with Nginx? Here is how!

I have been working with Kubernetes as a container orchestration tool for years. Although I think Kubernetes is a great tool if it solves the issues it was meant to solve it also comes with, at least one 😀, issue - Kubernetes is a complex tool to operate and to work with. In this post, I describe my first steps to get in touch with Nomad by HashiCorp, which promises to be less complex than Kubernetes.

Recently, I stumbled over Hurl which is an exciting tool in my opinion. To play around with it, I created a sort of integration test for this homepage utilizing Hugo, Docker, GitHub actions, and Hurl.

Recently, I had to check the connectivity to a Redis 6 TLS enabled and password protected instance. In this post, I want to give you an overview of the different approaches to verify if a Redis is up and reachable.

In my daily business I have to deal with a lot of YAML files. In my opinion, it is best practice to write --- (three dashes) at the beginning of a YAML file. This post describes how to utilize Git pre-commit hooks to automatically insert --- at the beginning of your YAML files before committing them.

Imagine you require a simple reverse proxy for one of your servers but you don’t have the permission to install Nginx, Apache etc. Or you really just need a simple proxy and don’t want to mess around with proxy configuration. In this post we will have a look for an comparatively new proxy called Caddy which is a perfect match for this scenario.

In this post I want to briefly describe how to build Docker images for both platforms at the example of a Docker image for troubleshooting purposes especially within a Kubernetes cluster.

While in my early days of working with Kustomize, I was missing some condensed practical hands-on how to build deployments with Kustomize and how to achieve common requirements in a multi-cluster setup. In this blog post, I want to fill this gap and give you a somewhat holistic overview of Kustomize.

What do I understand with DevOps and the related topics Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as Code