Yesterday, I presented at Talents Arena's virtual tech job fair which was a great event and a result of hard work!
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3 ways to customize off-the-shelf Helm charts with Kustomize - Kubernetes
3 ways to customize off-the-shelf Helm charts with Kustomize - Kubernetes
If you are working with Kubernetes probably you know Helm and Kustomize. Both are used to manage Kubernetes' deployments and resources. Each one of them has its own philosophy and a
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Set kubectl context per shell or terminal - Kubernetes
When I started to work with Kubernetes, It was a bit annoying to deal with multi clusters from CLI at the same time.
First suggestion was always
09/06/2020
Now I'm a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer + 10 exam tips
On 08.06.2020 and in less than 48 hours of the exam, I got an email that I passed from the first try and I'm now a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) 🎉🎉
Well, as you know, there is no DevOps without Dev and Ops ... but this time it was a bit different!
05/05/2020
DevOps is not just a culture and it is also a role! - General
OK, probably you heard this many times before; "DevOps is a culture, not a role". It also has other varieties like "DevOps is a culture, not the tools" and so on. Well, I believe that this is not so accurate!
Maybe it looks like a philosophical post but it's actually not. It comes from a purely practical problem! After some time I realized that sentence became kind of a "cliché" and
04/04/2020
Validate, format, lint, secure, and test Terraform IaC - CI/CD
Ahmed AbouZaid
04/04/2020
Automation, CI/CD, Developer Enablement, GitOps, IaC, Security, Terraform
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Nowadays Terraform is one of the pioneer tools used to manage modern infrastructure. It provides a declarative way to provision infrastructure, i.e Infrastructure as Code.
15/03/2020
Introduction to Kubernetes Operators - Presentation
Well, usually I post my talk presentation when it's done. But due to the current situation with Coronavirus all meetups have been canceled (the talk is meant to be held in
02/02/2020
Do not block automation! - DevOps
In an ideal world, when you have all the time, resources, and money ... we would automate everything, from small tasks to mission-critical tasks. However, that world almost doesn't exist! In real life,
11/01/2020
The Road to Cut Production Incidents by 67% and Reduce Downtime to Zero - SRE
Last year, I had started a new position as SRE and it's been an exciting journey so far!
As part of the SRE team and cross-functional squads working in
Hello, my name is Ahmed AbouZaid, I'm a passionate Tech Lead DevOps Engineer. 👋
I specialize in Cloud-Native and Kubernetes. I'm also a Free/Open source geek and book author. My favorite topics are DevOps transformation, DevSecOps, automation, data, and metrics.
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