Now that the Flux v2 extension for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Arc is generally available, let’s do a quick guide on the topic. A Quick Guide, at least on this site 😉, is a look at the topic from a command-line perspective for easy reproduction and evaluation. This Quick Guide is also on GitHub. … Continue reading “Quick Guide to Flux v2 on AKS”
If you have read my blog and watched my Youtube channel, you know I have worked with Flux in the past. Flux, by weaveworks, is a GitOps Kubernetes Operator that ensures that your cluster state matches the desired state described in a git repository. There are other solutions as well, such as Argo CD. With … Continue reading “An introduction to Flux v2”
Image Source: crossplane.io Although Crossplane has been around for a while, I never got around to trying it. Crossplane has many capabilities. However, in this post, I will focus on the following aspects: Installing Crossplane on a Kubernetes cluster (AKS); you can install on a local cluster as well (e.g., k3s, kind, minikube, …) but … Continue reading “First steps with Crossplane”
A while ago, I published a post about deploying AKS with Azure DevOps with extras like Nginx Ingress, cert-manager and several others. An Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template is used to deploy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The extras are installed with Helm charts and Helm installer tasks. I mainly use it for demo purposes but … Continue reading “Deploy and bootstrap your Kubernetes cluster with Azure DevOps and GitOps”
Flux has a feature called manifest generation that works together with Kustomize. Instead of just picking YAML files from a git repo and applying them, customisation is performed with the kustomize build command. The resulting YAML then gets applied to your cluster. If you don’t know how customisation works (without Flux), take a look at … Continue reading “Kustomize and 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 … Continue reading “GitOps with Weaveworks Flux”
I recently gave a talk at TechTrain, a monthly event in Mechelen (Belgium), hosted by Cronos. The talk is called “GitOps with Kubernetes: a better way to deploy” and is an introduction to GitOps with Weaveworks Flux as an example. You can find a re-recording of the presentation on Youtube:
A while ago, I blogged about an Azure YAML pipeline to deploy AKS together with Traefik. As a variation on that theme, this post talks about deploying AKS together with Nginx, External DNS, a Helm Operator and Flux CD. I blogged about Flux before if you want to know what it does. I added the … Continue reading “Deploy AKS with Nginx, External DNS, Helm Operator and Flux”
If you have followed my blog a little, you have seen a few posts about GitOps with Flux CD. This time, I am taking a look at Argo CD which, like Flux CD, is a GitOps tool to deploy applications from manifests in a git repository. Don’t want to read this whole thing? There are … Continue reading “Giving Argo CD a spin”
Image above from: https://kustomize.io/ When you have to deploy an application to multiple environments like dev, test and production there are many solutions available to you. You can manually deploy the app (Nooooooo! 😉), use a CI/CD system like Azure DevOps and its release pipelines (with or without Helm) or maybe even a “GitOps” approach … Continue reading “A quick tour of Kustomize”
