DevOps and Development

Helm is Kubernetes' equivalent to apt and yum. It is a package manager used for deploying applications, which are packaged as charts. This article explains how to add, update, and remove Helm chart repositories.

Ansible is a Code as Infrastructure solution for monitoring and managing remote hosts. This is done by using Ansible playbooks.
This tutorial shows you how to create and run Ansible playbooks.

CentOS 8 was released in 2019 and brought promising features to the popular Linux distro. Although it had an EOL scheduled for 2029, it was cut short with RHEL ending support of CentOS 8 in December 2021. Learn more about the sudden change and what to expect in the future.

A canary deployment is used to test out new features and upgrades, to see how they handle the production environment. You can monitor the canary behavior to make sure it can handle the needed requests. Once you are happy with the way it is handling requests, you can upgrade all the deployments to the newest version.

This article explains how to do a dry run of an Ansible playbook by using the built-in check mode feature. Ansible is an Infrastructure as Code tool that allows you to use a single control node to monitor and manage remote servers. It allows you to manage remote servers by creating playbooks, which contain lists of tasks for the remote servers to perform.

When a remote repository moves to another host or a team member stops working on a project, the related git remote pointer may not be needed anymore. This tutorial shows you how to remove a git remote from your machine.

Redis is used as a database, cache storage, and message broker thanks to its ability to store key-value pairs. This tutorial covers different ways to clear Redis cache and delete key-value pairs.

Learn how to keep your Apigee developer portal APIs up to date by creating scripts that leverage calls done either in the Apigee UI or available in the Apigee Management API. This article explains how to make an API spec appear in the Apigee Developer Portal.

The disown command is a part of the default Unix shell. You can use it to delete jobs or keep them running after you exit the terminal window.
This tutorial goes over different ways you can use the disown command.

This article provides a quick overview of basic commands and processes necessary for deleting both local and remote Git branches.