Operators automate day 2 operations for Kubernetes based software. Operators need to know the state of their operands. One way to find out the state is to check metrics information stored in Promet...

Operators are a powerful technology to automate operations of software in Kubernetes clusters. This article describes scenarios when operators should be used and which value they provide. There ar...

When developing auto-pilot capabilities in Kubernetes operators, often CronJobs and Jobs are used to automate operations. This article describes how to implement such jobs with Golang. The complet...

Kubernetes operators allow the automation of day 2 operational tasks. A good example is the automatic archiving of data. This article describes how data from a simple database can be archived autom...

While there are plenty of examples how to write stateless applications on Kubernetes, there are relative few simple samples explaining how to write stateful applications. This article describes how...

Kubernetes supports running stateless and stateful workloads. This article describes the core concepts how to build and run a simple database on Kubernetes using an open source sample. The snippet...

IBM provides a DevSecOps reference implementation which is especially useful for regulated industries to adhere to policies. This article describes how we have implemented the CI and CD pipelines f...

IBM provides a DevSecOps reference implementation which is especially useful for regulated industries to adhere to policies. This article describes the CD pipeline to deploy software using a GitOps...

IBM provides a DevSecOps reference implementation which is especially useful for regulated industries to adhere to policies. This article describes the CI pipeline which provides in addition to the...

IBM provides a DevSecOps reference implementation that I’ve used to build our SaaS reference architecture. This article describes the CI pipeline, especially the part to enforce branch protection. ...