Event-driven scripting in Kubernetes with Brigade

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:59:22 +0000

In most projects that I’ve been part of, sooner or later the need for various types of automation jobs arises. For example cleaning up old files, moving database backups, running health checks or system tests and so on.

Historically we’ve implemented these tasks using for example the Windows task scheduler, or through some custom Windows Service app. More recently, we’ve been using Azure Automation jobs for this. Sometimes it can also make sense to use CI/CD automation tools like Azure DevOps for these jobs.

Deploying ARM Templates using Visual Studio Team Services

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:22:34 +0000

If you are running your applications in Azure, and in particular on PaaS, you need to take a look ARM templates as a way to manage your environments. ARM templates let’s you define and deploy your entire environment using JSON files that you store together with the rest of your source code. The deployment of ARM templates are idempotent, meaning that you can run them many times and it will always produce the same result.

Azure on blog.ehn.nu

Event-driven scripting in Kubernetes with Brigade

Deploying ARM Templates using Visual Studio Team Services