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Show and Browse the Kubernetes API Reference Documentation in the Terminal

Did you know it’s possible to search the Kubernetes API reference docs right from kubectl? I had no clue until recently I learned about this pretty cool (and I think, not-so-well-known) feature. T...

Renew Azure Key Vault Certificates from Let's Encrypt

In a recent blog post, I wrote about how to create Azure Key Vault Certificates with Let’s Encrypt as the Issuer CA. This is a great start to utilizing a non-partnered Certificate Authority to issu...

Run Python Code in a Shell Script

I’m a big fan of “the right tool for the right job”. For some things, the right tool is a shell script. For others, it is Python. But sometimes… it is both. A lot of times I find myself writing a ...

Azure Key Vault Certificates with Let's Encrypt as the Issuer CA

Azure Key Vault is a great product for managing data protection, and one of the main features is the ability to handle TLS/SSL certificates. The way Azure Key Vault works with certificates is that ...

Setting Conditional Breakpoints in Go

Being able to debug your code is a necessary skill for any programmer. Setting conditional breakpoints allows you to efficiently and effectively inspect your code workflow. Take this simple (but co...

Query Azure Resources by Tags with the Azure CLI

Azure resource tags are one of the really great features that I don’t think gets talked about as much as it should. Tags are key-value pairs that you can put on your Azure resources. Although tags...

Create a Release and Upload Artifacts with GitHub Actions

When working in the full software lifecycle, CI/CD is one of the key mechanisms for providing software to the end users. The “D” in “CI/CD” refers to “delivery” and “deployment”. This blog post wi...

Emotionally Investing Yourself in Tools

As programmers and Information Technology professionals we are craftspeople. We require tools to accomplish our tasks. It’s common to invest ourselves heavily in these tools. In this blog post I wa...

Collect Custom Metrics in AKS

Part of running a production-quality Kubernetes cluster is being able to monitor it. One of the nice things about having your Kubernetes cluster in Azure is that many things are easy to setup and w...

Debug a Python Application Running in Kubernetes

Software breaks. It stops doing what we think it should be doing. It throws errors, and it fails in unexpected ways. This is the reality that we live in. As a software programmer, it is absolutely...