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  • Front Door with WordPress on Azure App Service

    Front Door with WordPress on Azure App Service

    Here’s a quick overview of the steps you need to take to put Front Door in front of an Azure Web App. In this case, the web app runs a WordPress site. Step 1: DNS Suppose you deployed the Web App and its name is gebawptest.azurewebsites.net and you want to reach the site via wp.baeke.info.… Read more

  • Trying Civo’s Kubernetes Service

    In a previous post I talked about k3sup, a tool to easily install k3s on any system available over SSH. If you don’t know what k3s is, it’s a lightweight version of Kubernetes. It also runs on ARMv7 and ARM64 processors. That means it’s also compatible with a Raspberry Pi. If I am not mistaken,… Read more

  • Trying out k3sup

    k3sup is a utility created by Alex Ellis to easily deploy k3s to any local or remote VM. In this post, I am giving the tool a try on a Civo cloud Ubuntu VM. You can of course pick any cloud provider you want or use a local system. Deploying a VM on Civo Cloud… Read more

  • GitOps with Weaveworks Flux – Installing and Updating Applications

    GitOps with Weaveworks Flux – Installing and Updating Applications

    In a previous post, we installed Weaveworks Flux. Flux synchronizes the contents of a git repository with your Kubernetes cluster. Flux can easily be installed via a Helm chart. As an example, we installed Traefik by adding the following yaml to the synced repository: apiVersion: helm.fluxcd.io/v1 kind: HelmRelease metadata: name: traefik namespace: default annotations: fluxcd.io/ignore:… Read more

  • GitOps with Weaveworks Flux

    GitOps with Weaveworks Flux

    If you have ever deployed applications to Kubernetes or other platforms, you are probably used to the following approach: developers check in code which triggers CI (continuous integration) and eventually results in deployable artifacts a release process deploys the artifacts to one or more environments such as a development and a production environment In the… Read more

  • AKS Azure Monitor metrics and alerts

    AKS Azure Monitor metrics and alerts

    In today’s post, we will take a quick look at Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) metrics and alerts for Azure Monitor. Out of the box, Microsoft offers two ways to obtain metrics: Metrics that can easily be used with Azure Monitor to generate alerts; these metrics are written to the Azure Monitor metrics store Metrics forwarded… Read more