This guide is a follow-up from my original tutorial. I’ve updated my blog to Azure’s new infrastructure over a year ago. This site currently receives about 12,000 page views per month. In my previous tutorial, it cost about $0.20 per month to handle storage and bandwidth costs. But for the last 12 months, it cost me $0.01 per month to keep this site running. $0.05 for storage, and $0.07 for bandwidth. … Read More
Further reading: Steve Lasker also wrote a similar blog post on container registries here. Helm Chart Repositories were deisgned to store, share and distribute Helm Charts. After the last Helm Summit, members from Microsoft Azure, Codefresh, Quay and others from the Helm Community have been advocating for a new standard so that Chart Repositories can scale to meet the demands of the broader Helm community. If we take a look at the broader Cloud Native ecosystem, Docker’s Distribution project checks off many of the boxes we were looking for in a successor: a battle-hardened, secure and highly reliable service being used in production today. … Read More
I’m an absolute sucker for free (or at least incredibly cheap) stuff. If you’re reading this, you probably are too. As a semi-recent hire at Microsoft, one of the employee perks is an Azure subscription with a monthly quota worth $150USD. For Canadians, that translates to $190CAD per month. While that is plenty enough to host a few websites on several fairly beefy VMs, why not optimize costs and host for as little as $0. … Read More
Deploying applications to web servers on your own infrastructure these days has never been easier. Gone are the days of having to manually install packages, run bootstrapping scripts, replicate production environments, and document the entire process so that you can successfully run the same job at 3AM because your application went down. Thanks to new emerging technologies like Configuration Management tools, Platform as a Service layers, and the push for companies to adopt a DevOps approach to their solutions, IT orchestration and application management got a hell of a lot easier. … Read More
Some hilarious one-liners from deis-bot, a buildbot that sits in #deis on IRC: <gabrtv> deis-bot: if you bitch about db schema changes you're gonna make me upset <deis-bot> gabrtv: if you need to reprovision your controllers <gabrtv> that's a good point, but i tested it and the schema migration is backwards compatible w/ my existing controller <deis-bot> build #261 of deis is complete: Success [build successful] Build details are at http://buildbot. … Read More