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Development

Bob's Journey into Advanced Helm: Mastering Charts

Bob and Josie dive into advanced Helm charting, mastering dynamic environments, service dependencies, and templating techniques. Discover how to streamline Kubernetes deployments with reusable configurations and smart templates in this next step of their tech journey!

Development

Bob's Journey Continues: Build a Secure Chart

Join Bob and Josie as they build a secure Helm chart from the ground up, exploring Kubernetes best practices and mastering advanced Helm configurations

Development

Bob's Journey into Helm: Charting a New Course

Join Bob and Josie as they dive into Kubernetes and Helm, exploring how to simplify application deployment with charts, values, and visualisations. From collaborative office setups to tech-savvy insights, this journey breaks down complex concepts into relatable, practical steps for developers.

Tooling

Falco: The Kubernetes Runtime Security Watchdog

Falco is your Kubernetes security watchdog, monitoring runtime behaviours to detect and alert on potential threats. Discover how to deploy, customise, and integrate this powerful tool to safeguard your cluster without the noise.

Development

Bob’s Journey into Application Observability: Uncovering Hidden Threats

Bob dives into Kubernetes application observability, learning how to use logs to monitor performance and uncover hidden threats. With Josie's guidance, he discovers the power of metrics and visualisation tools to keep his apps running smoothly.

Development

Bob's Journey to Secure Networking: Controlling the Flow

Bob explores Kubernetes Network Policies, learning how to control pod-to-pod communication, isolate namespaces, and secure traffic flows. With Josie's guidance, he builds a fortress around his applications, mastering the art of controlling the flow in Kubernetes.

Development

Bob's Journey to Secure Ingress

Bob dives into Kubernetes Ingress Controllers, exploring how they route traffic to services, the role of Endpoints, and securing applications with TLS. With Josie’s guidance, he learns to expose apps securely and troubleshoot traffic flow, taking another step in his Kubernetes journey.

Tooling

Trivy: A Developer's Guide to Keeping Your Apps Safe (and Your Sanity Intact)

Explore how Trivy simplifies security scanning across your development lifecycle. From source code and Docker images to Helm charts and Kubernetes clusters, this guide dives into practical ways to integrate Trivy and enhance your app’s security without the overhead.

Development

Bob's Journey to Persistence: Keeping your Data Alive

Bob explores the world of Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Claims, guided by Josie. Together, they tackle dynamic provisioning, securing connections to external services like PostgreSQL and MySQL, and best practices for resilience. Dive into this essential step in Bob's Kubernetes journey!

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Bob's Journey into Secrets and Config Maps

Join Bob as he navigates Kubernetes Secrets and ConfigMaps under Josie’s guidance. Learn how to securely manage sensitive data and configurations while separating them from application code, ensuring a robust and secure Kubernetes setup. Another step forward in Bob’s journey!

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Bob's Deep Dive into Kubernetes Pod Security

Join Bob as he dives deep into securing Kubernetes pods with Alex's guidance. Learn about Pod Security Policies, RoleBindings, and Service Accounts, and discover how to lock down your pods with best practices for a robust and secure Kubernetes environment.

Development

Bob's Kubernetes Journey Begins: Why Security Is Essential

Bob's journey takes him into the world of Kubernetes, where Josie guides him through the essential components and security practices. Together, they tackle the challenges of container orchestration, learning why security must be at the core of every Kubernetes deployment.

Development

Bob's Journey to Mastering Docker Content Trust and Image Signing

Bob explores Docker Content Trust to secure his container images, learning that image signing is just the start. With Josie's insights, he discovers tools like Notary and Cosign, realising that true security requires layers, from image authenticity to runtime protection and key management.

Development

Bob's Journey to Mastering Multi-Stage Builds

Bob's journey explores mastering multi-stage builds for leaner, secure Docker images. With Josie's advice and tools like Trivy, he learns to catch hidden vulnerabilities and strengthen his process. Follow along as Bob transforms his approach to container security.

Development

The Quest for Secure Docker Images: Bobs Journey

Bob thought he had Docker figured out, but a security audit revealed hidden vulnerabilities. With Josies help, he learns the key practices to build secure Docker images—pinning versions, running as non-root, and using tools like Trivy. Join Bob on his security-first journey!

Cloud

The Hidden Costs of Cloud Migration

Cloud migration can unlock flexibility, but hidden costs are everywhere. From data transfers to vendor lock-in with Terraform, unexpected expenses can stack up. This article explores lessons learned from migrating an on-prem OpenShift cluster to AKS and how to manage costs while staying compliant.

Security

Simplifying Passwords: What NIST's New Guidelines Mean for Developers

NIST’s new password guidelines favour simplicity over complexity, making security easier for users and developers. But it doesn’t stop at passwords. What if usernames, permissions, and even two-factor authentication could follow the same approach? Explore how simplicity is reshaping app security.

Kubernetes

Debugging Kubernetes

Earlier this morning I was debugging what turned out to be a issue with the node configuration in my local k8 dev cluster and it got me thinking about how easy it is to generally debug these things ... so here we go! Background Last weekend I decided to increase the

Development

CI/CD Under Siege: Supply Chain Cyberattacks

Discovered a new CI/CD attack trend that's shaking up our trust in software development processes. It highlights a crucial question: are we too complacent with our security in the fast-paced world of automation?

Helm

Helm Values Gotcha

Exploring a tricky aspect of Helm charts: how value merging can lead to unexpected results, and why mastering this is key to Kubernetes success.

Coming Soon!

In the coming months, I'll be enriching this space with content crafted from over 20 years of experience in web technology. 🔍 What to Expect: * In-depth insights into Kubernetes and Helm * Practical tips and trends in General Web Development * Innovative strategies in Platform Design * Essential knowledge in Web Security

Development

Setting up a dev box in Windows

Using Windows as a development environment can be tricky to set up, this guide shows a few tools and technologies to help bridge the gap and provide you with a wicked development environment in Windows.

Apps

Niko Niko

Welcome to the Niko Niko mobile app where you can track your daily happiness, look for patterns and generally get a better understand of your daily mental health. This is a super simple app which contains 3 key features: * Record happiness levels * View previous records * View scores as graphs Future

Apps

Planning Poker

This app was developed after searching for a simple planning poker app that had a clean, simple to use interface with no adverts. As a result, this app was developed to ensure that the team can effectively plan their epics / sprints and tasks without the distraction of adverts. The app