Somebody has to write some code, so others can use it. This section covers tools and technologies helpful for your development workflow. IDEs, frameworks, programming languages and scripting will be gathered here.
Podman
The world of containers consists of images, which are made out of layers. Normally, everybody with access to the image can investigate it, check out what's in there and how it works. Encrypting your images can prevent others to see the content of your images, even if they get access to it.
DevOps
My last DevOps article was published 3 months ago, so I assume it is time for another one. The last time, we had a look at ideals – things you will never reach, but always aim for. Now, let's have a look at principles – things you can apply to work towards ideals.
DevOps
If you say "DevOps", people will understand "Kubernetes", "Ansible" or "Cloud", most likely. But, the true nature of DevOps is a cultural change, based on 5 major ideals. Let's dig into these and explain, how they can change your way of working, more than JIRA or Scrum ever did.
Kubernetes
In some past articles, I talked about Kubernetes and how to get started. Minikube is awesome for local development, but what about Kubernetes on small environments? k3s is one of the easiest ways to deploy and run a Kubernetes instance, which can also be used to create high available clusters.
Fedora
Our Home Server is doing some nice stuff already. With the last articles, I want to demonstrate how you can deploy some useful applications on it. Running your own Git server has some advantages, when it comes to private work or testing.
Fedora
With the release of Fedora Linux 37, I switched back to Fedora Silverblue. I took this opportunity to revamp my Fedora Workstation repository and therefore my Ansible playbook for the same.
Podman
When it comes to development of applications and container deployments, Docker is still considered the standard. VSCode provides several extensions to make your life with containers easier. But, the Docker and Dev Container extensions can be tuned to work with Podman, too.
Development
Using Git is very common among developers nowadays. But, how do you work together on Git? What is the best strategy when it comes to discussions about trunks, mono-repos and what-not? Well, let's dig into this.
Podman
If you want to use containers, you need to pull images from a container registry. This is the place where container images live. But, how do you run your own registry? For your local network or development purposes, this is really useful!
Podman
It may be a surprise to you, but I am a huge fan of Podman. Recently, there is lots of development for Desktop integration, but there are also graphical tools for the browser or Command Line. If you want to manage your images and containers with in a graphical way, this article may be for you.
Container
Building your own containers is very easy and fast to learn. But very soon, you may end up with large container images and no idea how to reduce the footprint. Since you need to download and store each image, it can be useful to minimize the images, and this article will address exactly this.
Ansible
Let's do Ansible, they said. Writing simple playbooks is easy, they said. But, should one really write playbooks over and over again? Repeat yourself? Not at all, for sure. Automation is about avoiding repetition, and Ansible has some concepts to address this.
Home
In the Fedora - Home Server series, we are looking into setting up and automating our Home Server deployment. The last two articles introduced you to the concept, hardware and operating system. This time, we will set up our automation and do the first tasks.
Kubernetes
In the last article, we were starting with Kubernetes and talked about the basic concepts, namespaces and pods. For this article, we will have a look at deployments, ingress and service objects.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, the software that is often referred to as the operating system for application development. It's true, Kubernetes changed a lot in the application development world. But what are Deployments, Ingress, Service or Namespaces?
OpenSource
The project is finally moving (back) to GitHub. Why do we do this? What are the alternatives, and what will happen in the future? This is just a brief experience report about our moving to GitHub.