I have been playing around with Kubernetes a bit lately, both at work
and for some personal projects.
In fact, the page you are reading now is served by a Docker container running on
Kubernetes.
Kubernetes is a complex product and a bit overkill for a simple website like
this, but it gives me the opportunity to learn about its concepts in order to
use them for more complex projects.
One of the issues I ran into was how to update deployments to a newer image
version while using declarative YAML configuration files.
In this blog post I will share my solution.
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In my experience with software development, security is an aspect of our work
that does not always receive the attention it deserves.
I have seen many organizations where risks are not properly analysed, and
procedures to mitigate risks or to limit the impact of security breaches are not
in place.
Developers are typically expected to deliver new features, often under the
pressure of tight deadlines, and new security issues get introduced without
being noticed.
At the same time existing or legacy code is rarely touched, possibly containing
vulnerabilities that have existed for years.
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Make is a build automation tool originally designed to compile source code into
executable programs. However, because it is such a proven, flexible and
versatile tool, it is also a great fit for other applications.
I have been using Make to automate build tasks for web applications for a few
years now with great satisfaction, and in this article I will show some of its
interesting features and some makefile snippets I commonly use in the projects I
work on.
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I have been playing with the idea of starting my own blog for a while, but until
now my website consisted of just a static index.html (along with
some Sass file and images). Writing the HTML manually worked fine for a single
landing page, but I realised that for a blog this would quickly become
cumbersome. In order to keep the management of my site as easy as possible,
without having to run a fully-fledged, database-backed content management
system, I decided to go for a static site generator.
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