“Helm Get” – A Swiss Army Knife For Troubleshooting Helm Deployments

While it would be great if a Helm installation worked every time, you would likely need to troubleshoot from time to time due to the variety of deployment environments and cluster configurations. One of the best ways to start troubleshooting is to inspect what Helm has created for you using the “helm get” subcommands.

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Configure EC2 the Cloud-Native Way Using AWS Parameter Store

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 …

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Testing GitHub Actions…With Actions

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.

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