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Kubernetes resource management and you

  10 minute read  #kubernetes

Scheduling and resource management is a topic many Kubernetes users seem to struggle with, even though it is vital to understand it and correctly configure your workload to ensure optimal resource usage and application availability. In this article, I'll explain what scheduling and resource management exactly is, how you configure and use them, and go into some best practices.

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Continuously Deploying DNS records with DnsControl and CircleCI

  3 minute read  #dns  #ci/cd

In the previous post, I gave a quick introduction to DnsControl, what it does and how it works. In this post, I'll show you how to continuously deploy your changes to Google Cloud DNS using CircleCI.

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Managing DNS records the DevOps way

  3 minute read  #dns  #devops

Managing DNS records has always been a bit of a hassle for me. Most DNS providers have some sort of web gui where you have to manually fiddle in all records manually. Besides the fact that this is really tedious, this is quite error-prone. Humans are horrible at doing manual work! So let's automate this!

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Working with Git submodules

  1 minute read  #git

Here's a quick primer on how to work with Git submodules!

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Java: Create self-signed TLS/SSL certificates for Tomcat

  3 minute read  #java  #tls

A quick guide on how to generate a self-signed TLS certificate using the Java keytool and how to configure it in Tomcat.

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