Markus Lippert

The currently newest generation of CI/CD systems builds upon containers and Kubernetes as a runtime environment and uses Kubernetes resources like Jobs for running the steps of your pipeline. This enables reproducability and autoscaling for your CI/CD infrastructure. [Read More]

Running the ERP system Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is facilitated through Docker and the official images Microsoft provides. Taking this one step further and deploying Business Central to a cluster can be challenging however. I recently did a small survey and found it interesting that using Container orchestration for... [Read More]

Project Calico recently made Calico for Windows open-source. Before it was only available through a subscription. This means there is now another open-source networking plugin next to Flannel (and cloud-specific ones like Azure-CNI) which you can use for your mixed Kubernetes cluster with both Linux and Windows nodes. Calico for... [Read More]

Kubernetes supports Windows since v1.14 and with the latest releases the support got even better. All managed Kubernetes services of the major cloud providers support Windows containers. Microsoft as one of them announced the general availability of Windows containers for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in April 2020. [Read More]

As Helm just released the first stable version of Chart Releaser, it’s worth to take a look at how it helps you to easily host Helm Charts using GitHub Releases, GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions. [Read More]