DevOps and Development

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.

Learn how to make curl ignore certificate errors by adding the required option to the command. Ignoring certificate errors, should only be practiced for development purposes. Skip checking for SSL certificates only if needed.

Ansible allows you to quickly and easily use a single control node to manage a multiple remote servers. You can use Ansible to create files and folders on remote servers. This tutorial covers several ways to do that.

Create ConfigMaps for your pods configuration settings to keep your images light and portable. This guide shows four different ways how to create a ConfigMap. Additionally, it teaches you how to configure a pod to use a ConfigMap by using volumes or environment variables.