November 2019

I have a lot to be thankful for

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In the days leading up to the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, I want to talk about being thankful.  This is not your typical tech blog post.

Today my wife Sharon and I both went outside into the front garden to trim back the shrubs, prune the rose bushes, and remove all the debris from our summer plants.  It was a pleasant afternoon with a cool breeze in the air.  The sun shone on my back and warmed me as I worked.  With a pair of leather gloves and some pruning shears in hand, we made short work of the fall garden cleanup.  Sharon and I enjoy our time together and especially working together on our property.

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What is Container Orchestration – Kubernetes Version?

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In a previous post, What is Container Orchestration?, I explained container orchestration using some examples based on Docker Swarm. While Docker Swarm is undeniably easier to both use and explain, Kubernetes is by far the most prevalent container orchestrator today. So, I’m going to go through the same examples from that previous post but, this time, use Kubernetes. One of the great things about Docker Enterprise is it supports both Swarm and Kubernetes so I didn’t have to change my infrastructure at all.

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A First Look at Helm 3

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Helm has been widely publicized as the package manager for Kubernetes. We’ve seen the need over and over for Helm. Unfortunately, Helm 2 requires Tiller and Tiller opens a lot of security questions. In particular, in a multi-user, multi-organization, and/or multi-tenant cluster, securing the Tiller service account (or accounts) was difficult and problematic. As a result, we’ve never recommended our clients use Helm in production. With the recent announcement of the first release candidate for Helm 3, it’s time to take another look as this version no longer requires or uses Tiller so many (most) of our security concerns should be gone.

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