Installing HBase in Standalone mode on Ubuntu

HBase can be installed in three modes: standalone, pseudo-distributed and distributed – each mode has uses and advantages and disadvantages and slightly different install steps because of it. This article will guide you through the installation of HBase in standalone mode on Ubuntu 18.04. So why use standalone mode? Firstly standalone mode is not recommended […]

Deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) instance with an Nginx ingress controller

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 […]

Deploying Selenium Grid to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Azure DevOps

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. […]