When I did initial research on these two GitOps tools a couple of years ago, I went through several comparison articles that looked at the key features - often in the form of a table. ...
Why? # JFrog has some useful GitHub Actions workflows available that authenticate against Artifactory. ...
When deploying infrastructure that includes Kubernetes clusters, there is always a point where we have to decide exactly what resource should be handled via infrastructure code tools like Terraform, and what resources will be managed by Kubernetes itself. ...
Use case # Though you’d usually assume that a Kubernetes or OpenShift environment would always have a container registry available, this may not always be the case in more restricted or highly secured environments. ...
TL;DR GitOps is king, and once you’ve tried it you can’t go back 👑 ...
TL;DR # Coming from Kubernetes, my expectations were high for ECS + Fargate to be an “easy way” to deploy stuff. ...
Despite reading through the docs on Pulumi Outputs a few times, getting a grasp of how to deal with outputs can be difficult. ...
Purpose # Cloud infrastructure is nice and all, but sometimes you just want a simple kubernetes cluster to play around with as cheaply as possible, taking advantage of some hardware you already have laying around. ...
What is AWS App Runner? # In brief, AWS App Runner is a (highly) managed service AWS offers to run your applications with as little infrastructure knowledge and maintenance as possible. ...
What is the aws_auth and why does it exist? # Unlike AKS, by default AWS EKS uses AWS authentication tokens for managing access to the cluster. ...