Multi-Stage Dockerfile is the pattern you can use to ensure that your docker image is at an optimized size. We already have covered the importance of keeping the size of your docker image at a minimum level and what tools you could use, such as dive, to understand the size of each of your layers. […]
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How To Inject Secrets in Pods To Improve Security with Hashicorp Vault in 5 Minutes
Introduction This article will cover how to inject secrets in Pods using Hashicorp Vault. In previous articles, we covered how to install Hashicorp Vault in Kubernetes, configure and create secrets in Hashicorp, and how tools such as TIBCO BW can retrieve them. Still, today, we are going to go one step ahead. The reason why […]
OpenLens vs Lens: A New Battle Starts in January 2023
Introduction We already talked about Lens several times in different articles but today I am bringing it here OpenLens because after the release of Lens 6 in late July a lot of questions have arrises, especially regarding its change and the relationship with the OpenLens project, so I thought it could be very interesting to […]
Hadolint: Best Practices for your Dockerfiles In 3 Different Models
Introduction Hadolint is an open-source tool that will help you ensure that all the Dockerfiles you create follow all the Dockerfile best practices available in an automated way. Hadolint, as the number already suggested, is a linter tool and, because of that, can also help you to teach you all these best practices when creating […]
TIBCO BW Hashicorp Vault Configuration: More Powerful and Better Secured in 3 Steps
Introduction This article aims to show the TIBCO BW Hashicorp Vault Configuration to integrate your TIBCO BW application with the secrets stored in Hashicorp Vault, mainly for the externalization and management of password and credentials resources. As you probably know, in the TIBCO BW application, the configuration is stored in Properties at different levels (Module […]
Create Secrets in Hashicorp Vault Using 2 Easy Ways
Introduction Create secrets in Hashicorp Vault is one of the most important and relevant things you can do once you have installed Hashicorp Vault on your environment, probably by recovering and getting these secrets from the components they need it. But in today’s article, we will focus on the first part so you can learn […]
Hashicorp Vault Installation on Kubernetes: Quick and Simple in 3 Easy Steps
Introduction In this article, we are going to cover the Hashicorp Vault Installation on Kubernetes. Hashicorp Vault has become one of the industry standards when we talk about managing secrets and sensitive data in production environments, and this covers cloud and non-cloud-native deployments. But especially in Kubernetes, this is a critical component. We have already […]
Helm Loops: Helm Hack #1
Introduction Discover how to add Helm Loops to your helm charts to provide more dynamic behavior to your Helm Charts. Helm Charts are becoming the default de-factor solution when you want to package your Kubernetes deployment to be able to distribute or quickly install it in your system. Defined several times as the apt for […]
BanzaiCloud Logging Operator in Kubernetes Simplified in 5 minutes.
In the previous article, we described what capability BanzaiCloud Logging Operator provides and its main features. So, today we are going to see how we can implement it. The first thing we need to do is to install the operator itself, and to do that, we have a helm chart at our disposal, so the […]
Empower Log Aggregation in Kubernetes with BanzaiCloud Logging Operator
We already have talked about the importance of Log Aggregation in Kubernetes and why the change in the behavior of the components makes it a mandatory requirement for any new architecture we deployed today. To solve that part, we have a lot of different stacks that you probably have heard about. For example, if we […]