This article is also available on Substack. This is a very basic example of using Helm Unittestas well as an example of the “test pyramid” discussed in the previous article. The code is available on GitHub. Structure We have two charts: fw-demo - a chart with our demo application monitoring - a library chart that applies some DataDog monitoring rules for the main chart. monitoring chart is a dependency....
This article is also available on Substack. Before answering this question, we should decide why to test Helm chart? and if you even need to bother with that. Following an example from this xkcd comic, the real answer is: it depends. So, I want to share with you my story of Helm chart testing. How and, more importantly, why it started, and how it played out in the end. On a side note, I did a talk on this topic at the DevOps FW Days conference....
How to Trigger a GitHub Actions Pipeline with a Comment UPD 2023-09-07: Clarified some caveats around checking out the code when triggering a pipeline with a comment. Look for the UPD 2023-09-07 text on this page. Building comment-based workflows is a pretty neat thing from the UX perspective. You can work on the code in your IDE, create a pull request, and then leverage PR comments to run some automation....
This is the first guest article in this blog. This is one is by Maksym Vlasov - my co-author of the CatOps channel. Pre-history As you may know, Terraform 1.4.0 has introduced changes, which break the previous unintentional behavior. Previously, you could ignore the lockfile and use cached providers as long as the version constraints in the code were okay with your local cache. Starting from 1.4.0, Terraform always checks the lockfile before going into your cache directory....
Annual Kubernetes Survey by CatOps It is the second time I run this survey. You can find the previous year’s results here. You can find the raw data in the Google Sheets. You can also read this article on Substack. Introduction This year, I ran this survey for two months: from the 14th of March to the 18th of May, and gathered 122 responses in total. Yet, I must admit that I only promoted this survey for a month....