Dive is a tool for exploring a docker image and analyzing the layer contents. You can use it to look at what’s in each image, and look to improve your layer re-use and optimize your images. [Read More]

In Information Technology (IT), and especially in DevOps, there is a common trinity of People, Processes, and Tools. Those three sides can be summarized like this: [Read More]

Jib is a tool for Docker Java image creation, maintained by Google to package your Java applications from source to image. Ideally you’re using Spring Boot, but at least using Maven (or Gradle I guess) and building fat-jars that contain your source code and dependencies in one package. Traditionally to... [Read More]

Testing is a critical piece of the DevOps process chain, and an important feedback loop to the entire pipeline. It’s also an often overlooked piece of the puzzle, but with WATIR life is made a little simpler. [Read More]

I used to be a Java developer, so my go-to scripting language tends to be Groovy - that and professionally I am (was?) an Atlassian consultant, and wrote plugins and scripts in Groovy for that as well… [Read More]

So in our previous post, we configured an EKS cluster, got an ALB and external DNS integrations working on it. Now we can deploy apps. [Read More]

Today I was editing a file on a remote linux machine, and wanted to do a search of text, and replace with confirmations, since I didn’t want to replace all instances. That’s pretty simple: [Read More]