Wild-Card Certificates with Nginx-Ingress and Kubernetes Cronjobs
Wild card certificates (*.example.com) allow you to secure multiple subdomains using a single TLS certificate. Inside a kubernetes cluster we can use a tool called cert-manager to automate the creation of these certificates. Pair these newly created certificates with Nginx ingress and voila! We have SSL secured endpoints!
Webinar: Cloud-native Continuous Delivery with Kubernetes
So you’ve decided on Kubernetes as your container orchestration platform of choice and started the process to roll it out in the organization. But do you know how to effectively configure, deploy, run and maintain an entire continuous delivery...
Baking to Align: How to Help Teams Work from the Same Recipe
Achieving alignment is a challenge when you are working in collaborative software development environments. Teams frequently consist of Product Managers, Solution Architects, Tech Leads, Project Stakeholders, Developers, Site Reliability Engineers...
Oteemo becomes a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider, and joins CNCF as silver member
We are excited to announce that Oteemo is now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) and a silver member of Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF). The KCSP program ensures that enterprises get the top notch support they’re looking for to...
Contributing to Helm Community Charts: Getting Started
Helm community charts are curated applications for Kubernetes that thrive on community input. Rob Kernick provides a primer on contributing to them.
Accelerating Kubernetes and Cloud-native Transformation
At Oteemo, we leverage years of experience in people, processes and technology to accelerate cloud-native container adoption in the enterprise.
Developing and Testing Ansible Roles: Part 0
Introduction Hello World! At Oteemo we like to automate things. One of the tools that we use for automation is Ansible and a question that we often are asked is, “How can we develop and test our Infrastructure as Code?” In this series, we will...
First Steps: Backing up Kubernetes with Ark
Ark is an open source, kubernetes disaster recovery solution from Heptio. It allows you to backup all or part of your kubernetes cluster.
STIG, SCAP, AWS, Ansible, Oh My!
If you work for the government or are familiar with TLA (Three Letter Acronyms, i.e. FBI, CIA, WTF. etc.) then you know what this blog is about. If not, it is about automating your deployment to the cloud and knowing there is some level of security...
Organizing Ansible
What version of Ansible are we up to? 2.5?? Seems like just yesterday I started using Blocks for error handling. Even more recently, I decided to retrofit some of my roles with the new yum_repository module which allowed me to drop my repo file...
Think Before you NodePort in Kubernetes
When first starting with Kubernetes, new users quickly find out about exposing their applications via the built-in Service resource. Two options are provided for Services intended for external use: a NodePort, or a LoadBalancer. Often, the NodePort...
5 Ways to Leverage Slack in DevOps
The hot word in IT is currently *DevOps,* and for good reason! If you can get your development and operations teams in sync, then you can deliver quality software faster, improving time-to- market with smoother deployments. Unfortunately, the...
Stages of Continuous Delivery Part 1: The Build
Continuous Delivery (CD) is what every team wants to be doing, but without understanding of the core steps of this process it can be difficult or impossible to achieve. This post will outline the important steps of the CD process and why they are needed to ensure high-quality, on-time application delivery to your customers.
The Jenkins Password Parameter Obituary
The Jenkins Password Parameter Obituary Blaine Whited 17 October 2017 Jenkins Password Parameters, born on August 3, 2009, lived its life and provided useful functionality to many a time-pressed user. Its life was a storied one, as evident from the...
Building on Shifting Sands
When we think of architecture in general, we think of a static plan for a structure. I mean, it's as if we're building a house and we need a plan. However, plans do not always take into account situations when fundamental...