TDD for infrastructure with ignite + firecracker

This is the last post in the series of posts about TDD for infrastructure. If you wanted to follow along I recommend first reading TDD for infrastructure with Vagrant and then TDD for infrastructure with footloose. In the previous post TDD for infrastructure with footloose I explored weaveworks' footloose to start containers that look like virtual machines. Continue reading

TDD for infrastructure with footloose

In the previous post TDD for infrastructure with Vagrant I explored Vagrant, VirtualBox and Chef Inspec for implementing a simple workflow for test driven development of infrastructure code. I showed that using virtual machines as target machines for testing is just not fast enough and probably hard to run in a build environment. Continue reading

TDD for infrastructure with Vagrant

Introduction For many years (almost decades) developers have been practicing test driven development and write tests to get confidence that their code works. However, with the rise of infrastructure as code where DevOps engineers try to describe infrastructure provisioning using code, this is something that is not observed generally. Continue reading

Google Container Tools - Jib

With this post we close the series of articles taking a deep dive on building Docker images. We look at a building Docker images for running Java applications in a Docker container with Jib which is part of the Google Container Tools. Continue reading

Docker BuildKit

In the previous blog post of the building docker images series we had a look at Docker image build pipelines. We revealed typical problems and looked at how to overcome some by utilizing multistage builds. In part 4 of this series we work with an addition to the Docker tooling which is BuildKit. Continue reading

Docker image build pipeline

Let’s recap what we have covered in this blog post series so far. In Building a Docker Image we had a look at the anatomy of a Docker image. And Optimizing a Docker Image shed some light on optimizations when building an image. Continue reading

Optimizing a Docker Image

This post continues where we left off with Building a Docker Image. We are looking into how we can optimize the process of building a Docker image. This optimization can aim at reducing the size of images built or the time it takes for packaging an image. Continue reading