Whenever I’ve needed a Kubernetes Ingress controller in the past I’ve always used Nginx, not because it’s better than everything else but just because I was familiar with it. Outside of Kubernetes I’ve always used HAProxy as my reverse-proxy of choice and been very happy with it, it’s always performed well and been easy to […]
One of the most popular articles I’ve written on this blog was this tutorial showing how to deploy Selenium Grid 3 to Azure Kubernetes Service, Selenium Grid 4 is now in beta and has been rewritten from scratch so there are some big changes which you need to be aware of when deploying to Kubernetes. […]
Helm 3 has been out for a while now and for the most part it’s a good step up from Helm 2 however it does have one issue which if you don’t know how to deal with can be frustrating and difficult to resolve. The issue I’m referring to occurs when the first deployment of […]
This is the second article in a series exploring how to setup an Azure Kubernetes Service instance, implement a Nginx ingress controller and how to deploy apps to AKS using Helm. All the articles in the series can be found by clicking here. In this article we will use Azure DevOps to build a CI/CD […]
This is the first article in a series which will guide you through deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) instance on Azure with an Nginx ingress controller, configuring a CI/CD pipeline to configure that ingress controller and then deploying to the AKS instance using Azure DevOps. We are going to use the command line to […]
This article focuses on deploying Selenium Grid 3 which is now obsolete please see the following article which shows the same deployment process for Selenium Grid 4. https://tomaustin.xyz/2021/01/13/deploying-selenium-grid-4-to-azure-kubernetes-service-aks-using-azure-devops/ I’ve recently started using Selenium for UI testing some web applications and I kept seeing Selenium Grid being mentioned so decided to take a look at it. […]
This article is the second in a series exploring AKS and how to leverage Azure DevOps to easily deploy and update services running inside AKS. The first article in the series can be found here and guided you through deploying a simple website to AKS, this article will show you how to do the same […]
In this series we will be exploring how to set up a CI/CD pipeline to deploy websites and services to Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure DevOps. I’m going to be using Visual Studio 2019 with the Azure Development workload, you’re also going to need the Azure CLI and kubectl for future articles in this series. […]