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Using Renovate to scale up automatic pull request creation on GitHub

See how we use the dependency update tool Renovate to distribute helm charts with ArgoCD applications in a GitOps fashion. This article shows how to set up Renovate for several kubernetes clusters with a centralized configuration as a GitHub action.

22.08.2023

Mikel Jason Münnekhoff

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CONTROL PLANE OPERATED INFRASTRUCTURE

Part 1: Introduction to Crossplane

This tech blog article introduces Crossplane, an open-source Kubernetes add-on that extends the capabilities of infrastructure management by leveraging Kubernetes as a control plane. Crossplane uses Kubernetes’ extensible API design and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to manage not only services and applications but also cloud infrastructure. The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to get started with Crossplane and provision your first resources in the cloud using Kubernetes as a control plane.

31.07.2023

Niklas Schuster

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Kong - The Gateway without Limitations

Part 1: Brief Product Introduction

Kong Gateway is a lightweight, fast, and flexible API Gateway. It acts as an intermediary between API providers and consumers, enabling them to communicate based on policies. It also provides observability features, allowing to track API usage and performance. Overall it is a convincing and outstanding product which is briefly introduced in the following blog.

15.05.2023

Alexander Suchier

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New Random Generators in Java 17

Java 17 introduced new random number generators. These provide longer cycles, improved statistical uniform distribution, improved threading support, and Streams API integration. This article provides a short introduction to random number generators and an overview of the improvements made in Java 17.

13.04.2023

Markus Seidl

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Understanding the value of Software Supply Chain Security

Part 2: Tools in your arsenal

In the first part we discussed software supply chain in general, which possible attack vectors exist and what actions are being taken by the community but rather in an isolated manner. In this part, I’ll line out specific actions which can be taken in an organized manner and which tools/framework/guidelines can be useful along this way.

28.03.2023

Amulya Bhatia

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Using Renovate to scale up automatic pull request creation on GitHub

Part 1: Introduction to Crossplane

Part 1: Brief Product Introduction

New Random Generators in Java 17

Part 2: Tools in your arsenal

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