The newbie cloud architect diary

A Docker registry is an open-source server that is able to store Docker images organised in repositories, and distribute them via an HTTP REST API. The daily mood We had our second team call (we mostly talked about internal/confidential topics). I doubt a bit about my directions, and I feel the need to prevent it to turn into frustration or failure. I wonder if I should involve more support from my team, or apply more structure inside my posts, in oder to ensure productive Goals, Steps, and Results on a daily basis. Though my previous achievements were not too bad after all, so why change and make it worse? Let's rather enjoy what has been done so far and keep going. Following to my  previous blog  on Deployment stacks, I realised that I need a local Docker repository in order to be able to accelerate my deployment activities or switch-off VPN tunnel to our internal network. Docker registry We need a registry hosting a repository. I added an insecure registry entry ...

Helm is a template-based spec format for configuring, packaging and deploying  applications that consist in multiple resource objects to Kubernetes. The daily mood My last posts were about setting up a Kubernetes environment. We'll now learn the tooling. In general i am not yet much familiar with common developer productivity tools like  Z-Shell ,  Gists  and  Lints , but i assume this will come with the time. Now we are going to look into the packaging of Kubernetes applications. What is Helm Helm is a commonly used package manager for Kubernetes. It is not the only one option for managing your Kubernetes applications but the one which happens to reach critical mass at enterprise grade, just like Docker did for Containerization and Kubernetes for Orchestration. One of the reason for its great popularity is the Helm Hub , the official Helm public repository which is hosting tons of standard packages. At its core, Helm generates Kubernetes manifests out of...