2023 Highlights

Image generated with Craiyon. Finally, 2023 is over! What a year! One more crazy year, but it was the culmination of many actions I've started previously. Starting with the fun facts ... this is the post no. 100! After 9 years of tech blogging in English (I had another...

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Become a DevOps Engineer with the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap - Career

A couple of months ago, I discussed why all linear DevOps learning roadmaps are broken by default (like roadmap.sh/devops)! In that post, I've discussed the issue, where it comes from, and the solution I tried for over 5 years! The solution is simply switching to an MVP-style learning roadmap...

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DevOps is not only a culture - Discussion Panel

Today is my second session JobStack 2023 after my previous one yesterday titled "Platform Engineering: Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane", but this time it was a discussion panel with Ahmad Aabed (CTO of Zyda). For a long time, DevOps methodologies have...

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Platform Engineering: Manage your infrastructure using Kubernetes and Crossplane - Presentation

Just fresh out of the kitchen, part of JobStack 2023, today I conducted a session about a great tool ... Crossplane, the open-source control plane! I've been using Crossplane for over a year and a half, and it helped me a lot to manage my infrastructure without the need to use Terraform (I still...

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🔀Merger🔀, a schemaless strategic merge plugin - Kustomize

Kustomize is a great tool. I've been using Kustomize for almost 4 years and am happy with it. However, it's known for its strict merging methods, where it needs to have an OpenAPI schema to merge files properly. There were many use cases where I needed a more flexible way...

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Helm chart keyless signing with Sigstore/Cosign - DevSecOps

Software supply chain security has been one of the hot topics because of the continues attacks and exploits shown in the latest few years. So having a proper security practices like signing artifacts in today's CI/CD pipeline is not a luxury! Which became a standard DevSecOps practice. However,...

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My Master's Dissertation: Modern Data Platform with DataOps, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native Ecosystem

Almost 3 years ago (September 2020), I enrolled in a part-time master's program in data engineering at Edinburgh Napier University. Finally, two weeks ago, I got an email informing me that I successfully completed my master's and the program board of examiners awarded me Master of Science...

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Your DevOps learning roadmap is broken! - Career

... ⚠️ Update ⚠️ If you are looking for the solution for this dilemma, then check this out: How to become a DevOps Engineer in 2024 with the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap. ... Can you read it? Probably not, it's already broken! As of 2023, the DevOps Engineer...

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KubeconformValidator, my first Kustomize validator plugin - Golang

TL;DR In the past, Kustomize suggested using transformers to validate resources, but later, it introduced validators, which are like transformers but read-only. Say Hi to KubeconformValidator, a plugin built around Kubeconform to validate manifests schema within Kustonize...

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Awesome Kustomize list - Kubernetes

After 3 years of using Kustomize intensively to manage Kubernetes manifests, I just created a list of "Awesome Kustomize" resources 🤩️ If you are using Kubernetes, this repo will be a pretty good starting point for Kustomize plugins, guides, tips and tricks, and more. Kustomize...

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