Brigade gateways trigger new events in the Brigade system. While the included GitHub and container registry hooks are useful, the Brigade system is designed to make it easy for you to build your own. In this post, I show the quickest way to create a Brigade gateway using Node.js. How quick? We should...

Brigade provides a way to script multiple containers to perform a task. With Brigade, you can build things like CI systems, ETL pipelines, and distributed batch processors. One of the critical capabilities of Brigade is its ability to share data between containers. This article describes the two main...

Adam and I were pairing, working through a critical piece of our program's architecture. The cursor sat blinking. We had been staring at it in awkward silence. We were stumped.

"I'm leaning toward 'version'", I said, as much to break the silence as anything else.

Adam considered for a moment, then...

One reality of the open source world (and, indeed, any passion projects) is that sometimes we have time to participate, and other times we don't. This is true even of the core maintainers of a project. In Helm, we wanted to find a way to allow core maintainers to diminish their responsibilities. At...

Brigade newcomers often ask me why Brigade doesn't use YAML. Coming from CircleCI, TravisCI, and Kubernetes itself, some developers expect that Brigade should be a "declarative" method of describing a sequence of steps to be run. This is not what Brigade is supposed to be. Brigade is a script execution...

There are four steps you should take if you are running Tiller (Helm's server-side component) in a cluster that has untrusted users or pods. These steps are done at installation time, and will substantially improve Helm's security.

The easiest way to install Tiller is with the helm init command....

The community has outgrown GitHub. And Drupal has a lesson for us. It's time to stop cobbling together a community from a host of free services, and it's time to build our own community.

The Problems

I have been working within the Kubernetes community for a few years now, and have watched it grow...

A CapsLock key is useless. So make it into something better: A Hyper key.

Back in 2014 I wrote about how I remapped my MacBook's CapsLock key to make it act like CTRL-CMD-SHIFT-OPTION, essentially giving me a new modifier key in the tradition of the old Hyper key.

For the last few years I have benefitted...

Sometimes you need to create a large file for testing. The command line tool dd is an easy way to create large files filled with random data.

I recently found myself needing to test uploading and downloading files of various sizes. So I wanted a quick way to create several files, each of very specific...

The Microsoft acquisition of Deis is my second major acquisition in a few years. Not long ago, Revolv was acquired by Google.

Earlier this week, Microsoft and Deis jointly announced the acquisition. Wired ran an interesting story with interviews, while TechCrunch and 20+ others explored Deis' history