Posts by: Konstantin Kiess

Now that we have everything deployed, let’s explore and understand Argo and what it can do for you. Understanding Applications: An Argo Application is a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition. It is used by Argo to provide a wrapper around a few other tools it is able to use. We’ll start with the common settings for

Welcome to part two of our QUAKE-Speedrun. This time we will deploy Argo and use it to automate deployments of our additional components on our Kubernetes Cluster to start building out our Platform. First, let’s take a look at the Argo Project Modules to understand what their Job is. Argo Project: ArgoCD “Declarative Continuous Delivery

Last time, we successfully finished deploying the first part of our platform. We have bootstrapped an AWS Env via Terraform and deployed a Kubernetes Cluster via Kops. ‌‌‌‌Now that we have the infrastructure in place, let’s go through what we did. After we’ve provided our credentials for AWS and installed the CLI’s, the command we

Introdution: A follow along tutorial to build your own Platform. This was inspired by the gaming speedrun community. A speedrun is a play-through, or a recording thereof, of a whole video game or a selected part of it (such as a single level), performed with the intention of completing it as fast as possible. While

Part Two: Approaching the problem without rewriting existing code Welcome back to the second part of SILK for CFCR. If you just stumbled upon this, it might be a good idea to check out the first blog-post explaining the project. For you TL;DR; kind of people: Here is the ci, here are the wrappers, and

Part One: Building bridges in the cloud Image Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bridge-clouds-nature-outdoors-584315 It started at the CF Summit Basel Hackathon in 2018 and the result is above screencast. What did you just look at? Let’s start with explaining what stack we’re using and what is happening before explaining in depth what we see in the Terminals. The