We get to solve different kinds of problems. One of the major problems I had to solve was getting a stable internet connection. When you work from home, having a stable internet connection as well as a stable power supply is essential. In my area (or rather in my country…

Use APICTL with Gitlab CI/CD — CICD has become a widely adopted practice now a days. Automating both infrastructure deployments and artefact deployments has been a main focus point in almost all the projects in the industry these days. There are so many automation tools out there. …

AWS has two major offerings for deploying containers. EKS and ECS. EKS is the k8s based one and ECS has two options, EC2 based or Fargate. Due to the advantages and features, some people prefer to use ECS Fargate. WSO2 provides official k8s artefacts which you can use in a…

How did we automate a WSO2 Deployment, CI/CD with Azure Devops — part 04 — This is the 4th post of a series of posts about Automating a WSO2 deployment using Azure Devops pipelines. Links to all the posts can be found in the bottom of this article. In this post Im going to explain how did we develop a CI/CD pipeline to deploy Carbon…

How did we automate a WSO2 Deployment, CI/CD with Azure Devops — part 03 — This is the 3rd post of a series of posts about Automating a WSO2 deployment using Azure Devops pipelines. Links to all the posts can be found in the bottom of this article. In this post Im going to explain how we automated a WSO2 deployment in an Openshift cluster…

How did we automate a WSO2 Deployment, CI/CD with Azure Devops — part 02 — This is the 2nd post of a series of posts about Automating a WSO2 deployment using Azure Devops pipelines. Links to all the posts can be found in the bottom of this article. In this post Im going to talk about how to write pipelines in Azure Devops for a…

How did we automate a WSO2 Deployment, CI/CD with Azure Devops — part 01 — Bit of a background here. There was a WSO2 deployment where all deployment related stuff including product upgrades and artefact upgrades were done manually. I was assigned to automate the whole Deployment process. The deployment was on an OpenShift cluster which was in house(on premise) and as the CI/CD tool/solution…

Mapping between old configuration files and new deployment.toml file — The new configuration model based on the toml format is introduced from API Manager 3.0.0 onwards. In older versions of the product, users had to modify different configuration files depending on the components related to the specific feature they were configuring. With new configuration model all configuration files have been…

Local Kubernetes playground using KIND (Kubernetes in Docker) — Background Have you ever wanted a simple Kubernetes cluster to try things out ? Or just to get familiar with kubernetes components, commands and other stuff ? Basically, have you ever wanted a Kubernetes Playground ? There are many platforms that offer you kubernetes clusters to play with. For example: Katacoda…