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KMC - Windows Kubernetes Cluster Support in Rancher 2.4 - 2020-05-20

Windows containerization efforts continue to grow and deploying workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes cluster might soon be in your future. Rancher fully supports creating and managing Windows Clusters today and we would like to show you how it could look like within your organization.

Using bolt's terraform integration to create infrastructure for your tests - Daniel Carabas

Using the bolt/terraform integration (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-terraform) Daniel shows how to create arbitrary infrastructure as part of system-level acceptance testing for modules using Puppet Litmus (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet_litmus). #litmus #testing #terraform

Pre-Release Testing Gems in the IAC Team - Sheena Tharakanparampil

Sheena, a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Automation Content team, shows how we do pre-release testing of our tooling across our modules to avoid regressions escaping into the field. Thanks to Lore's and her work, this is now scripted and we can spend our time adding more features. #pdksync #litmus #gemtesting.

HAProxyConf 2019 - HAProxy Process Management with William Lallemand

Process management in HAProxy has evolved since the beginning of the project; With the advent of new init systems and process managers, managing HAProxy processes became complicated due to the multi-processes architecture of the project. The Master Worker mode simplifies the process management and introduces interesting features. This talk will briefly review the history of the Master Worker mode and the new features it brought.

CI/CD In Confidence: How Pipelines Keeps Your Secrets

A friend that can’t keep a secret isn’t one you’ll rely on. The same is true for your mission critical CI/CD tool that you have to entrust with credentials for each integrated component. Keeping your secrets safe can be a challenge for CI/CD tools, since they need to connect to such a variety of other services. Each one needs its own password or token that must be kept hidden from prying eyes.

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

This week, Canonical announced the integration of Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of any Kubernetes, across any substrate.