How to do basic OpenTelemetry with GoLang and Microservices — Cloud-native became the defacto standard for designing and developing applications. According to CNCF, cloud-native is defined as “scalable applications” running in “modern dynamic environments” that uses technologies such as containers, microservices, and declarative APIs. When following the above design you tend to divide your application into multiple microservices. And by…

Looking at Cloud-Native services through the 12 Factors’ lens 🔎 — We are in the world of Everything As A Service(EaaS) which is becoming more and more common now. When the software is provided as a service, it implies that a few features viz., security, scalability, reliability, and performance must be implicit. To meet this, cloud-native applications are developed. A cloud-native…

Dynamically flip docker base images in Azure Pipelines via triggers — Due to the rise in containers, the processes around building the containers have also been evolved. So do the security and efficiency aspect of building a container image. Having a smaller container image is more efficient in many ways; i.e. less storage space, faster pull rate, reducing the attack surface…

Command CI Pipelines with help of Semantic Versioning — Semantic Versioning (also referred to as SemVer) is a standard versioning system that has been followed by software engineers and developers for a while now. This is introduced to maintain the dependency graph intact with the applications. By keeping the dependency graph intact, the application can remain stable. To do…

Inject build version in GoLang container logs via Azure Pipelines — In my previous article on the GoLang App build version in Containers we have discussed how important the build version is to get it in the logs. We also discussed injecting the versions during the build time using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. In this article, we will see how…

become the best git user — What is git commit message A git commit message is a short text that identifies the context of the work. This is added by the flag -m in the git commit command. In simple terms, the commit message is the comment of what is the work that has happened. To view the commit message in…

Eliminating redundant process for developers — There’s a lot of tools and utilities for developing applications, frameworks to eliminate the boiler plate codes. But the process of creating and deploying applications haven’t been changed for a while. With the endless addition of every new card in the CNCF Landscape(https://l.cncf.io/) there are endless complexities and confusions. Behind…

Deploy OSS Vault with HA on NFS — In this article we are going to see how to deploy the open source Vault in production environment, initialize, unseal and make it highly available. To achieve that, we are going to utilize the open source consul and open source vault along with the Vault Initializer and Vault Load Balancer. …

The easy way to make perfect spec — TL;DR Take a look at the Docker Hub. Docker Hub Edit descriptionhub.docker.com Creating APIs are an important part of the SDLC. And just defining an API is no more a standard practice. The API needs to be in complaint with OpenAPI Spec which is formerly known as Swagger Spec. It’s more important that maintaining the…