Astrologists declare a week of application delivery.

So today, I want to share with you an article that touches the problem of delivering infrastructure dependencies in the modern world.

The problem statement is that almost no applications are running purely on their own. Especially, if we're talking about corporate backend services. These applications require databases, queues, blob storage and many more dependencies to run correctly.

Who's responsible for that, though? Is it application developers? Well, in this case, they'll need to learn a bunch of things related to those topics. It likely doesn't have much sense from a business point of view. On another hand, creating a separate team to provide dependencies on-demand literally brings us a decade back to the "throwing code over the wall" and "ticket-based software delivery" approaches.

In this article, an author argues that bundling application dependencies alongside with the codebase is the best way to go. One can have a team that delivers these building blocks and a developer then combine them like a Lego in their config files.

This is a very interesting approach (at least for me) and I truly believe that this would be the next big thing in DevOps-ish world. As for now, though, an author mentions a few tools that could help here. However, in my humble opinion, an existing toolset is not quite there yet and there is still a long way to go.

P.S. I wanted to write a real blog post on this topic as well. Unfortunately, I don't know how to motivate myself. Therefore, I would rather create a series of small Telegram posts with on this topic. Stay tuned!

#app_bundle #kubernetes #crossplane

​​Yet another post from the #app_bundle series. This is again a video from Viktor Farcic on how to combine ArgoCD, Crossplane, and KubeVela to completely abstract Kubernetes away from your product engineers aka developers and (allegedly) make their lives easier.

In the end of each year, many people make predictions on what upcoming times would look like. And I can say that abstracting clusters away will be a big thing in the industry. This brings us to the logical question: "So, why do all this stuff and not just use serverless options out of the box?". I will let you answer this question on your own.

P.S. You can save this post to blame me later, if this prediction happens to be wrong.

#kubernetes #cicd

We briefly mentioned Crossplane during in our last voice chat. Here is yet another hello word-ish article about Crossplane.

However, what I like about this article that there is a link to a repository with code samples. So, you can examine the code on your own if you want as well as try to run it by yourself.

BTW, I also wrote an article long time ago. Unfortunately, I don’t have a repo with the sample code. I didn’t think of this back then :\

#kubernetes #aws #crossplane