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Walkthough of Creating and Running Plays on AWX

AWX Ad Hoc Test The first step before you do anything on AWX, is just get your toes wet and do a simple ad hoc command locally. To do this got to Inventories -> + Call it localhost. Next you have to actually add hosts or groups to this inventory. To do this edit the […]

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Kubernetes Questions – Please answer them

What is the Difference between a Persistent Volume and a Storage Class? What happens when pods are killed, is the data persisted – How do you test this? What is the difference between a Service and an Ingress? By default, Docker uses host-private networking, so containers can talk to other containers only if they are […]

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k8s Troubleshooting Guide

Found this K8S troubleshooting guide from learnk8s.io

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Alpine Python Docker Base image problem with gcc

An important thing to do with process based containers or any container is to keep them slim and ensure that only what is necessary is packaged into the image. For that reason I went with the python:3.8-alpine base image. After all was said and done the size of the resulting image was 208MB. No GCC […]

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Containerising your Django Application into Docker and eventually Kubernetes

There shift to containers is happening, in some places faster than others… People underestimate the complexity and all the parts involved in making you applciation work. The Django Example In the case of Django, we would in the past (traditionally) deployed it on a webserver running: a Webserver (nginx) a python wsgi – web server […]