I am working as a consultant and software architect on different projects that focus on microservices, DevOps, and Kubernetes. Many of my consulting jobs consist of explaining microservices, why th...
Deploy Applications from private Repositories using Flux GitOps and Azure Arc
In my last post, I showed you how to install a GitOps operator and deploy an application using Helm charts. For this demo, I used an application from a public repository. Almost all companies host ...
Deploy Helm charts with the Azure Arc Flux GitOps Extension
Combining Azure Arc with the Flux GitOps extension is a great way to deploy your infrastructure and applications to Kubernetes. In my last post, I showed you how to install the Flux extension and h...
Securely deploy Applications in Azure Arc with the Flux GitOps Extension
Azure Arc allows developers and administrators to implement a simple but secure GitOps process with the Flux extension. My last post explained how you can use Kustomize to create configuration fil...
Manage your Kubernetes Resources with Kustomize
Azure Arc offers the Flux extensions to enable a GitOps workflow. You should know about Kustomize before you can use the Flux extension though. Today, I want to show you what Kustomize is and how ...
Create a VPC Connection between Azure and Timescale
This week, I was helping a customer of mine to migrate from an on-prem database to a cloud-hosted TimescaleDB. Since the customer is using Azure, they wanted to host their new TimescaleDB in Azure....
Introducing GitOps
GitOps is a way to manage infrastructure as code (IaC) which gains more and more traction lately. Today, I want to give you an introduction to GitOps, talk about the good and bad, and also introdu...
Use the TokenRequest API to create Tokens in Kubernetes 1.24
In one of my former posts, Securely connect to an on-premises Kubernetes Cluster with Azure Arc, I showed you how to securely connect to an on-premise Kubernetes cluster using Azure Arc. To achieve...
Programming With Wolfgang is now on Youtube
As the title already mentions, I have created a Youtube channel and uploaded my first video explaining how to install Azure Arc to manage an on-premise Kubernetes cluster. I am not sure yet where ...