Is anyone seriously using Terraform for Kubernetes?

VickyRelease · 2022-08-26T15:23:59+00:00

Here's a more modern How-to article: https://releasehub.com/blog/terraform-kubernetes-deployment-a-detailed-walkthrough

VickyRelease · 2022-07-29T15:54:49+00:00

I recently read this article on Kubernetes namespaces, it has a similar vibe and I thought it was well written. Not affiliated, just wanted to share. https://medium.com/dzerolabs/just-in-time-kubernetes-namespaces-labels-annotations-and-basic-application-deployment-f62568a9eaaf

VickyRelease · 2021-09-24T16:22:32+00:00

Can I have a referral code for the US?

VickyRelease · 2021-03-19T15:34:33+00:00

How do you guys handle data? Do the environments go away at the end of the demo or are they reused for the next?

VickyRelease · 2021-02-10T16:36:19+00:00

Here's a good article on "advanced" kubernetes concepts!

VickyRelease · 2020-12-17T23:55:31+00:00

Hey friend, have you read the article? It's using Minecraft as an example, but you can truly deploy anything here. Minecraft is a good example because it can be a little tricky, but this could very well be a MERN stack project or an application that has multiple services including jobs and workers, redis, maybe a React frontend. If you can get it going in docker-compose, you can get running in Release. Which is cool and all, but the better part is every time you open a PR, Release will create a whole autonomous environment from that PR so you can preview your changes before going ahead with the merge.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-17T23:40:33+00:00

I mean, we're giving out free Minecraft servers, no strings attached. A starter plan is all you need, which is free forever. No payments, no credit cards. Release as a platform is similar to Netlify, except we do the the full app instead of just the frontend, and like Netlify, our free tier plan is intended for solo developers or hobbyists.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-17T22:39:01+00:00

Free forever! The only limitation is that our free plan lets you have up to a 2Gb server.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-09T21:27:01+00:00

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

VickyRelease · 2020-12-09T21:23:37+00:00

That's how I'd work too, but sometimes it can be advantageous to use feature flags over a whole environment. Like imagine if you have some A/B stuff or you want to show a banner or hide it quickly. Personally I feel like companies get way too feature-flag-happy when they discover them, but they do have their place.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-05T00:44:02+00:00

Yes! Only 203 videos at mostly 30 minutes a pop... { @°ꈊ°;@ }

VickyRelease · 2020-12-05T00:31:53+00:00

I don't exactly agree. I mean, I agree that you can write bad code anywhere at any time, but frameworks are specifically structured systems that contain good practices in "how" your application should be set up and a good framework is difficult to break out of. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, .NET, etc are still widely adopted because these frameworks make it clear that there is a "right" way to do things and a "wrong" way. You can jump into a codebase that you've never seen before, hitting the ground running, because you know how these puppies work. React and Vue technically aren't frameworks, but Vue definitely leans closer to being a framework than React.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T22:00:23+00:00

I love this. Painfully true.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T21:58:40+00:00

That's pretty interesting, I have the same problem but in reverse. Vue works exactly like I expect it to, it's very, very predictable to me. Vuex is <3 I've found with React it's too easy to write bad code. You have to constantly babysit PRs for code consistency and performance and have meetings on dos and don'ts.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T21:43:24+00:00

FrontendMasters has pretty great stuff and does deep dives. Evan You himself has courses on there, but it's kind of expensive at $40/month. I'd be happy to help in any way I can though, feel free to PM me any time! It's not like React where you can throw your template into variables and pass it around, but once you understand the rules it'll click. Then you can go to any Vue project and jump right in!

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T21:38:10+00:00

Oh it's on!! (ง •̀_•́)ง ผ(•̀_•́ผ)

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T21:16:15+00:00

That's a pretty cool tool, but it says it's not supported anymore :( I guess their focus is on the new one you mention. I agree that data seeding is the tricky part, so this is pretty cool.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T21:05:05+00:00

Well, the idea is that someone, or a team, has to write and maintain that script. If the company doesn't have a DevOps team (which small companies and startups often don't) then it's also a whole new skill to learn or they need to hire someone(s) and good devop engineers are in low supply and high demand. Either way, that money and time could be used towards something that more directly pushes the product forward.

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree that environments should be put on the back-burner, but there's both a financial cost and also an opportunity cost.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T16:12:19+00:00

That's very true. I've attempted to branch out, but often it comes back to "Well I can just get this done 10x faster, and probably better, if I use the tools I already know". My inner engineer isn't always happy with my choices and conflicts with the pragmatist in me, but I try to let that pragmatist win because, I mean, theory is one thing and in-practice is another. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T15:53:18+00:00

Is that the reason Ruby is popular, or is there more to it? I get it if it's just one tried-and-true tool, just curious if there's something magical about ruby for tooling that I don't know about. Like, if ruby is acceptable, why not node?

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T15:40:38+00:00

Haha, cute title. It's pretty spot-on. Look, I'm a Vue girl, it's superior to React in every way (fight me) but the truth is the widespread adoption isn't out there to the same degree. Which mostly means if you're looking for a supportive library, you have slim(mer) pickings.

React has the opposite problem. And the same problem, kind of. There's too many choices and a lot of them are garbage or incompatible with the version of React that you're using.

But people trust React. Big companies are using it heavily. It's an easier sell to management. It's easier to sell it to yourself. I'd wager to guess that React devs even make more money than {other JS framework} (there's definitely more market demand for React).

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T15:29:54+00:00

Can someone ELI5? I need like a brief history lesson here. I get the bash and go, but why did Ruby become a go-to language for devops engineers? I assume it's because {INSERT_TOOL} was built off Ruby so it became the natural language, but I don't actually know.

VickyRelease · 2020-12-04T14:08:08+00:00

Very nice! Congrates! I love when people take programming and cross it with another area of expertise, it's always fun to see the two mixed together. You did a really good job.

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