Introduction I always love the idea of GitOps, where everything I have in a git repo represents the current state of my application. But not everything are made for GitOps, so we have to sort…
Tag: kubernetes
Automating Kubernetes Nodes Reboot with Kured
Introduction Having an up-to-date Kubernetes node is important, especially security updates. Sometimes an update requires a reboot to take effect, and you don’t want to keep checking them manually. In this post, I will share…
Variable Substitution in Flux GitOps
Introduction Sometimes there are values that you want to use multiple times in your manifest files. Usually, we define them using a config map or secret and we either mount them as a file or…
Flux Secret Management with SOPS age
Introduction Following my previous post about Kubernetes management using Flux, this post will cover secret management using SOPS and age. SOPS is a tool to encrypt and decrypt text files while age is the encryption…
How I Manage My Kubernetes Manifests Using Flux
Introduction GitOps is currently the most popular way to manage your services. It’s sort of what DevOps is but with Git. To put it in a simple way, it is a practice where you manage…