2025
2025: Increasing GitOps productivity
GitOps is getting more boring (in the best sense). This year we will likely see features enhancing productivity and DX
2024
New example for Argo CD ApplicationSets
There is a new example config repo structure that advertises the usage of Argo CD AppSets
OpenGitOps Resources
OpenGitOps now provides a collection of resources relating to GitOps such as books, papers, articles, etc.
Book: GitOps
Practical introduction for development and platform teams.
In-depth focus on GitOps (without basics for K8s or CI/CD).
Clear insight into the consequences of GitOps and the difference it makes in everyday development life.
Comprehensive guidance on relevant challenges such as secrets, repo structures and asynchronicity.
In-depth focus on GitOps (without basics for K8s or CI/CD).
Clear insight into the consequences of GitOps and the difference it makes in everyday development life.
Comprehensive guidance on relevant challenges such as secrets, repo structures and asynchronicity.
Weaveworks shutdown: Impact on GitOps?
In what way does the unravelling of the company Weaveworks affect the Flux project and GitOps as a whole?
2023
GitOps: repository structures and patterns by example
Real examples of public GitOps repositories make the GitOps patterns more tangible
Interview: Three questions and answers: how to get your individual GitOps process going
Implemented correctly, GitOps takes a lot of work off admins' shoulders. This interview shows how to find the best tools and define your own process.
GitOps: repository structures and patterns
Identifies patterns from recurring elements during GitOps process design and describes them in four categories operator deployment, repository, promotion and wiring. These pattern can help designing GitOps processes and repo structures as well as finding and standardizing terminology, facilitating communication
GitOps tools in detail: Argo CD vs. Flux
An in-depth comparison of Argo CD and Flux regarding bootstrapping, linking, CLI and GUI, components and resource requirements, authentication and authorization, templating, configuration management, monitoring and alerting, ecosystem, multi-tenancy,multi-cluster management, OCI, high availability and load balancing, maturity and commercial offerings.
2022
Repo Structures: Stages/Environments with base/shared resources in Kustomize or Helm in trunk-based development
A solution to a very specific GitOps design problem that seems to have an impact on many users
Flux or argocd - the great controversy
Arguments for Flux or ArgoCD based on the requirements of current project
Continuously scan your Kubernetes cluster for security issues using trivy operator
Getting started with trivy operator for k8s and current limitations
GitOps patterns for repository and folder/directory structure
My insights on GitOps repo and folder/directory structure patterns after combining my own experience with other awesome resources
2021
eBook: Kubernetes AppOps Security
This eBook uses diagrams and code to illustrate how developers can secure the operations of their applications with kubernetes. It focuses on network policies and security context.
Automation helpers - A Market overview for GitOps tools
This article captures a snapshot of the market for "GitOps tools", creates a catalog of general criteria for
choosing the right GitOps tool and applies this catalog to a comparison of ArgoCD and Flux v2.
Coding Continuous Delivery: CIOps vs. GitOps with Jenkins
What is the difference between CIOps and GitOps? Is there still room for a CI server?
This article shows hands-on how to automate certain aspects of GitOps using Jenkins.
2020
Kubernetes AppOps Security Series
Series of articles comprising six articles on Kubernetes AppOps published.
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 6: Pod Security Policies (2/2) - Exceptions and Troubleshooting
Use cases that call for several Pod Security Policies within one Kubernetes cluster and how to handle them, including troubleshooting tips.
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 5: Pod Security Policies (1/2) – Good Practices
Setting global security settings for pods and containers within a Kubernetes cluster using Pod Security Policies.
Automatic Let’s Encrypt Certificates with Apache Tomcat / Spring Boot
A solution for fetching and renewing TLS certs without restart via Let’s Encrypt that works with standalone and embedded Tomcat as well as Spring Boot.
Continuous Delivery to Maven Central with Travis CI
Automatically deploying Java Artifacts to Maven Central via Travis CI.
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 4: Security Context (2/2) – Background
Backgrounds on Security Context in Kubernetes: Isolation of containers, attack vectors, defense and tooling.
Docs As Code - Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins - Part 2
2nd part: Demonstrates additional alternatives for deployment (Sonatype Nexus and Kubernetes), while the general structure of the Jenkinsfile remains the same.
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 3: Security Context (1/2) – Good Practices
Recommended settings for the Security Context in Kubernetes pods.
2019
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 2: Using Network Policies (2/2) - Advanced Topics and Tricks
Advanced topics around Kubernetes Network Policies like CNI, testing, debugging, limitations, alternatives and pitfalls.
Querying docker image sizes via the command line
CLI for querying and comparing sizes of different OCI ("Docker") images.
Kubernetes AppOps Security Part 1: Using Network Policies (1/2) - Basics and Good Practices
Attack vectors mitigated by and good practices for Kubernetes Network Policies.
Docs As Code - Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins - Part 1
1st part: demonstrated the use cases and benefits of delivering presentations with reveal.js.
Generating a hard-coded build number/version name in your Java app
Generate a version number for Java apps during the build as a static final field without any runtime dependencies using the annotation processor.
GraalVM (a bit) beyond Hello World
Advantages but also challenges of using GraalVM with Java.
Short comparison: Building Graal Native Images with Quarkus, Micronaut and Helidon
Comparing the three frameworks via the experience from the "getting started" tutorials and beyond.
Continuous Delivery with Sonatype Nexus, Jenkins and the Cloudogu EcoSystem
Continuous delivery of Java artifacts with Jenkins to Nexus repositories is easy. This articles shows examples for the enterprise as well as for open source (Maven Central).
2018
Coding Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Pipelines
Series of articles comprising four articles on Continuous Delivery with Jenkins published.
Coding Continuous Delivery Part 4 — Static Code Analysis with SonarQube and Deployment on Kubernetes et al. with the Jenkins Pipeline Plugin
How to trigger static code analysis using SonarQube and continuously deliver to Kubernetes from Jenkins pipelines.
Coding Continuous Delivery Part 3 – Helpful Tools for the Jenkins Pipeline
Useful tools and methods for Jenkins pipelines: Shared libraries for reusing and unit testing; Advantages of using Docker containers.
Coding Continuous Delivery Part 2 – Performance optimization for the Jenkins Pipeline
Faster feedback by accelerating Jenkins pipelines using parallelization and nightly builds.
Coding Continuous Delivery Part 1 – Jenkins pipeline plugin basics
Basics and some practical tips for getting started with Jenkins pipelines.
The pragmatic migration to JUnit 5
2017
More sutainable Android Software with Project Treble and 6-y LTS Kernels on Android O?
Android Logging for Java Professionals – SLF4J and Logback in Android
Android Logging for Java Professionals – SLF4J - Logback in Android
Reusing Java know-how for logging in Android.
Android 7 (Nougat) on a 5-year-old phone
Jenkins Pipeline plugin: code completion in IntelliJ
Automatic checks for vulnerabilities in Java project dependencies
Automatic checks for vulnerabilities in Java project dependencies
Automating discovery of known security vulnerabilities in Java dependencies using Maven,Jenkins and OWASP Dependency-Check.