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VictoriaMetrics observability from day one - Mixins on Grafana, VictoriaMetrics and vmagent

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In a previous post, I explored how to set up observability using Kubernetes Mixins with Grafana Mimir and Alloy. It was a great exercise, but the stack was… heavy. Distributed systems are great fun 🤨, but most of the tim...

Kubernetes observability from day one - Mixins on Grafana, Mimir and Alloy

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the things we quickly find out when using Kubernetes is that it’s hard to know what is going on in our cluster. In most cases, we implement monitoring and alerting after we’ve dealt with problems, but there is a better way.

We don’t need to wait for the explosions, we can re-use...

Pulumi - Zitadel Configuration on the Operator

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting to try Pulumi for a while now. I love IaC but I’ve always liked strongly typed languages. I think they are a great way to avoid mistakes and incentivize refactoring.

I hate to test technologies in a vacuum, I prefer to have so...

Keycloak OIDC - Declarative Configuration on Kubernetes with Crossplane

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Keycloak is many things, but simple and friendly aren’t among them. Another major issue is the reliance on the UI in most configuration guides—Not good, not good.

Let’s try to bring some clarity by putting things down in a declarative ...

Indestructible applications with progressive delivery

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Progressive delivery allows us to put a new application version in production while keeping the previous one running and controlling how much traffic each gets.

Strategies

Replicas Rollout

By progressively increasing the replicas ...

Continuous Build and Deployment on Kubernetes

Thu, 30 May 2024 08:00:00 +0000

In this post, we’re going to be looking into how to put together a CI/CD pipeline with… Hold on, not CI/CD. There is no Integration, just Build. The D in CD is for Deployment, not Delivery.

Let’s put together a CB/CD solution with kpack and fluxcd. The final solution is availa...

DevOps - The value in Value Stream Mapping

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

DevOps is everywhere, everyone is claiming that it makes you go faster and you decided that you are ready for it. What’s the next step?

Should you learn about Docker? Kubernetes? Continuous deployment?

As we all are a bit geeky with the technical side of the software developmen...

Docker swarm cluster on a laptop

Fri, 20 May 2016 09:20:00 +0000

We are going to create a Docker Swarm cluster on Virtualbox with Vagrant and script the configuration using Ansible.

How to put your jar in your Docker image

Wed, 11 May 2016 14:20:00 +0000

The compilation has just finished and Maven shows us the message we all love:

[INFO] ------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS


Jenkins Pipeline as Code test drive
Thu, 05 May 2016 14:20:00 +0000
After having read that Jenkins 2 was out, I decided to give it a go and see what has changed and see what can we do with Pipeline as Code.

Bootstrapping

We’ll be using Docker to ...