Exploring industry DevOps practices and technical expertise.
This tutorial walks through installing the etcd client, creating an Nginx deployment for verification, backing up the etcd data store, validating the backup, and restoring the backup to a Kubernetes cluster while handling component shutdown and restart procedures.
This guide explains how to register for Akuity Academy's free ArgoCD GitOps introductory course, walk through the training modules, complete the hands‑on GitOps experiment, and obtain the certification badge, providing a practical pathway for DevOps practitioners to master continuous delivery with Argo CD.
This guide walks through setting up a Kubernetes cluster with NFS storage, loading Jenkins and agent Docker images, configuring ArgoCD, deploying Jenkins via declarative manifests, initializing Jenkins, creating and deploying a static Jenkins agent, and troubleshooting common issues, providing full code snippets and screenshots.
This guide walks you through provisioning a local Kubernetes environment using Terraform and Kind, installing essential tools like kubectl and ArgoCD, and deploying a cloud‑native continuous‑delivery pipeline, providing a repeatable setup for DevOps hands‑on training.
The article outlines essential continuous delivery, architectural, product, lean management, and cultural capabilities—such as version control, automated deployment, trunk‑based development, test automation, value‑stream visibility, lightweight change approval, and supportive leadership—that together drive high‑performance DevOps outcomes.
This tutorial walks through creating a complete GitOps CI/CD pipeline on OpenShift using Tekton for builds and ArgoCD for declarative continuous delivery, covering installation, secret management, pipeline definition, webhook configuration, and verification of automated deployments.
This article introduces KubeLinter, an open‑source tool that scans Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts for best‑practice compliance, explains why it is useful, shows installation methods, provides usage examples, and details configuration and integration options for secure, production‑ready deployments.
This article explains how to perform data‑driven A/B testing in progressive delivery using Argo Rollouts Experiments on Kubernetes, covering the concepts, required resources, YAML manifests, command‑line steps, and the benefits of combining A/B tests with canary deployments.
This article outlines comprehensive best‑practice guidelines for building Kubernetes applications, covering scalability design, containerization, pod scope, configuration management, health probes, deployments, service discovery, storage, monitoring, security, and CI/CD integration to achieve robust, highly available workloads.
The 2023 CNCF user survey of Argo CD and Argo Rollouts reveals high adoption rates, strong Net Promoter Scores, dominant usage by DevOps and platform engineers, expanding production deployments, and growing ecosystem integrations, highlighting opportunities and challenges for the GitOps and progressive delivery landscape.
