Alright, here’s what’s up: TL;DR We tried Ansible Container. We’d rather keep using Dockerfiles for image builds: creating a Docker image and provisioning servers with Ansible are two very different things. Different in terms of lifecycle, philosophy and workflow. So different, that in our opinion, they’re not compatible. Wanna know why? Read on. Disclaimer: While the current status of Ansible Container is not clear, it seems that during the writing of this article the tool has been deprecated: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-container/commit/2fa778a7c8d1699672314ac0b89c53554f435cb7. After the limitations we noticed, we…

This is another episode of the “The Wizard” series. If you haven’t read the previous episodes, you can find them here and here. You just don’t know how to do it. You’ve been thinking about it for a while too. It’s an important issue. The crafting of the spell is the most important part. The journey is usually more important than the destination itself. But you don’t feel like you are doing it right.

Alright, stranger! As we pass through the stage of basic Jenkins X overview in our  first part , we are ready to go to infinity and go beyond the general application of Kubernetes environment. In this article, we are going to step further into Jenkins X world, by going through a step-by-step setup process and creating quickstart project. Furthermore, you will get an overview of what is going on in the background, detailed description of Git flow, release management and magic behind deployment automation. Please,…

Hi there! Today we’re going to share about Jenkins X. I think every developer knows what Jenkins is. Or at least has heard of it once. But what is ‘X’? Basically, Jenkins X is not just a CI/CD tool to run your builds and deployments, it is an attempt to automate the whole development process end to end for containerised applications based on Docker and Kubernetes. It is obviously open source, as all best applications. This sounds very promising at a high level. So, let’s…

Kubernetes has quickly become the de facto standard for container orchestration. If the basics are now well understood, the new “upstream” features are much less, even though they make the product richer and able to address some very specific use cases. This article is a review of these new features, as well as the upcoming ones that come with the 1.10 release. A prior knowledge of kubernetes is a prerequisite. Disclaimer: some of these features are alpha, meaning that some backward incompatible changes may be…