Tagging in Gitlab CI Pipeline using Deploy Keys
When building your application in a Gitlab pipeline you often want to push back changes to your repository. You can use deploy keys to accomplish this. Read on to learn how to use these.…
Upgrading Kubernetes Nodes without disruptions
Upgrading your kubernetes cluster is a process not to be taken lightly. In this article we will shine a light on a recent outage we experienced while doing so and what we have learned from this.…
Kubernetes workshop at EV-Box
EVBox is a producers of electric vehicle charging stations and has these come bundled with a managed software solution. Given the fact that the Philips Hue cloud is somewhat alike (hardware + cloud offering) they reached out to us to share our knowledge during a workshop.…
Getting StatsD up and running on Ubuntu 14.04 in 10 minutes
Even though that sending metrics to StatsD is really easy the installation of the StatsD stack on a webserver is historically non-trivial. Because the components are now available as apt-get packages and all guides that I found are long, incomplete or contain user intervention I have scripted an unattended install…
Mitigating a Pushdo DDoS attack on your azure website
Recently one of my clients websites was under a DDOS attack and this resulted in a less-then-desirable site performance. In this blog post I will elaborate which precautions we did to make certain our site will be performing as requested (and not scaling to 10 instances costing us lots of…