Author: rodrigtech

  • Google Kubernetes with Prometheus

    If you’ve been following along in the previous posts I’ve also stated that I’d release more content in regards to infrastructure as code and cloud native security content. Like anything if you’d like to follow along this time I’ll actually have a git repo for you to clone and work through should you like to…

  • Running Azure with Ansible

    It’s likely you’ve heard of Ansible by Redhat this is a open-source configuration management language that can provision services and beyond. Recently I’ve been wanting to expand my knowledge in this area of code but also the use cases to see how its leveraged. For a quick introductory of how the tool works essentially you…

  • Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes with Kiosk

    Multi-tenancy shouldn’t be unfamiliar to those who’ve already adopted some type of cloud model regardless if it’s hybrid and not full cloud-native. This also has been a area of adoption in the realm of kubernetes as likely every organization is facing financial optimization decisions. Today’s blog post explores the tool known as Kiosk that is…

  • Kubernetes with Calico – BYOCNI

    Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service opens up a whole world of exploration with the option for the customer to bring in container network interfaces of your choice. Wait what’s a Container Network Interface? Okay, lets start at the top for Kubernetes to communicate with networking services a Container Network Interface is needed the Cloud Native Computing…

  • Deploying Policy-as-Code with Kyverno in Kubernetes

    Security in Kubernetes shifts the security enforcement with Admission Controllers the flow of these systems can be enhanced with utilization of tools such as Open Policy Agent which leverages rego to define parameters that must be met prior to authorization of operations requested against the Kubernetes api server. What is Kyverno? Kyverno is (greek for…

  • Otomi – PaaS for Kubernetes

    Otomi is a platform as a service for Kubernetes, well let’s unpack exactly what that breaks down to. For instance in Kubernetes you’re mostly empowered depending on how you configure your cluster by numerous plugins/resources. Depending on how you are hosting your cluster this can be limited to the CSP’s native controls but also can…

  • Jenkins on Kubernetes

    Jenkins can be deployed and utilized in many ways for this blog post we are going to deploy the jenkins operator via kubernetes with the use of helm. If your curious on how this is implemented in your kubernetes cluster this blog is just for you and to replicate this I’ve also included the documentation…

  • Jenkins with SAST

    Photo Credit of Jenkins – created by Sarah Moreau – sarahmoreau1995@gmail.com In this tutorial I’m going to run tfsec on a Jenkins Pipeline continuing where we left off last time in Jenkins on Azure. Today I’ve redeployed Jenkins via a container packaged by bitnami as a different approach and set up a fresh CI/CD Server.…

  • Jenkins in Azure

    Jenkins is an open-source automation server that is widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. It allows developers to automate the building, testing, and deployment of their software applications, making the development process faster and more efficient. For todays post this will show how to run this on Azure Virtual Machines and…

  • Deploying Istio Ambient Mesh

    Istio Ambient Mesh is a fairly new area in the service mesh ecosystem this premiere with collaboration of Solo.io and Google and I wanted to cover that further in the purpose of service mesh along with the approach of losing the sidecar. What is a sidecar container? Sidecar containers were introduced as a approach initially…