October 2020 - Austin Dewey

You Can Use OpenShift’s ImageStreams With Deployments…Here’s How

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 Austin DeweyLeave a comment

I recently ran into problems trying to reference an ImageStream from my Deployment on OpenShift. I had just built a new image and pushed it to an ImageStream, but when I tried to refer to it from my Deployment, I got ErrImagePull errors…

Configure EC2 the Cloud-Native Way Using AWS Parameter Store

October 16, 2020September 12, 2021 Austin Dewey2 Comments

The Twelve-Factor App, a commonly used set of guidelines for building cloud-native applications, requires an application to exhibit “strict separation of config from code“. A key takeaway from this guideline is that you should not configure credentials to data sources …

Publish Your Helm Charts Easily With Chart-Repo-PR-Action

October 12, 2020November 02, 2020 Austin DeweyLeave a comment

Do you use Helm charts for your projects? Use this GitHub Action to easily publish those charts to a chart repository!

Testing GitHub Actions…With Actions

October 03, 2020October 03, 2020 Austin DeweyLeave a comment

There are plenty of useful blog posts on how to write a GitHub Action, but while writing my own Action, I didn’t find much material out there on how to help me properly test it. In this blog post, I want to talk about how I implemented automated testing of my Action, hoping that you can benefit from this as well.