cloudwithchris.com VS conduit

Navigate to a GitHub Repository that you own. For example, I am the organization owner of CloudWithChris, so will navigate to my cloudwithchris.com repository.

For example, the website you're reading (Cloud With Chris) is - and has been - hosted using the Static Websites on Azure Storage approach since March 2020. As an end-user, when you navigate to www.cloudwithchris.com, you'll be routed to an Azure CDN instance that is fronting the Azure Storage Account which hosts the production Static Website. The CDN is how I'm able to have an SSL Certificate mapped against a Custom Domain, otherwise that wouldn't be possible directly on the storage account (as there's no way to map a custom SSL certificate in that way directly).

So, what's the point in this post (other than reinforcing a brilliant episode, thank you again Annie)? Over time, I'll release a set of blog posts which cover these CNCF projects. I don't have a timeframe. I don't have a specific goal in mind just yet. But given that it's Cloud with Chris, it does feel that Cloud native should have a spot in there somewhere. So stay tuned! If you'd like me to focus on any projects in particular, please let me know either in the Cloud With Chris GitHub repository by raising a GitHub Issue, or letting me know on Twitter, @reddobowen.

Now, one of the main points that I raise in my usual talk on hosting websites using the Static Content Hosting pattern is the significant cost-benefit of doing this. In an average month, I spend less than £5 for the entire end-to-end running of my environments. Yes, environments plural - that includes Preview, Staging and production, and also includes the cost of streaming my audio files to third party platforms like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and consumed directly from www.cloudwithchris.com.

There are plenty of existing articles that talk about how to optimise these common SEO practices, so I recommend you search for these as I'm going to aim to not reinvent the wheel. If you're interested on how I achieve some of these in Cloud with Chris, you can take a look at the metadata partial template that I use within my Hugo template.

name: "Podcast Audio Upload" on: push: branches: - master paths: - "podcast_audio/**" jobs: publish: environment: name: production.azure url: https://www.cloudwithchris.com runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Download Podcast files that are different from prior commit run: | git clone --config lfs.fetchexclude="/podcast_audio" https://github.com/chrisreddington/cloudwithchris.com.git ./ fileschanged=$(git diff --name-only HEAD^ HEAD -- '*.mp3') echo "$fileschanged" > files.txt xargs -a files.txt -d'\n' rm git config --unset lfs.fetchexclude git checkout . cd podcast_audio sed -i -e 's/podcast_audio\///g' ../files.txt for i in *; do if ! grep -qxFe "$i" ../files.txt then echo "Deleting: $i" rm "$i" fi done - name: Azure Login uses: azure/login@v1 with: creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }} - name: "Upload podcast files to storage that don't yet exist" uses: azure/CLI@v1 with: azcliversion: 2.20.0 inlineScript: | az storage blob upload-batch --account-name cloudwithchrisprod -d 'podcasts' -s '/github/workspace/podcast_audio' --if-unmodified-since 2020-01-01T00:00Z --auth-mode login

Once you have added the Public GPG Key details to GitHub, you can now go ahead and push your local changes to GitHub by using git push (If you haven't already associated a remote location with the Git repository, then you may also need to use the git remote add command, and then use git push). Assuming that the Public Key in the GPG Keys section of your GitHub account corresponds with the Private Key used to sign the commits, then you will notice that commits will be marked as verified in the GitHub user interface. See the example below from the cloudwithchris.com Git Repository Commits page.

Similarly, Cloud With Chris is an example of a JAMStack site, driven by Hugo, a static website generator. Rather than calling any backend APIs, the content is all entirely driven by markdown which is hosted in the GitHub repository mentioned a moment ago. This means I'm not calling any external APIs. Instead, the content is finalised at deployment time. I run a command in my GitHub Actions (Hugo build) which goes ahead and takes my site's configuration, necessary theme information and content, and renders the needed files to generate the set of webpages to render to my clients. The content is then uploaded to an Azure Blob Storage account which is publicly accessible and configured using the Static Website functionality.

Leverage a service mesh like Istio or Linkerd to manage communication between microservices within the Kubernetes cluster. These service meshes can be configured to intercept JMX traffic and enforce access control policies. Benefits:

Looks like CNCF waved them through Graduation anyway, let's look at policies from July 28, 2021 when they were deemed "Graduated"

All maintainers of the LinkerD project had @boyant.io email addresses. [0] They do list 4 other members of a "Steering Committee", but LinkerD's GOVERNANCE.md gives all of the power to maintainers: [1]

> Ideally, all project decisions are resolved by maintainer consensus. If this is not possible, maintainers may call a vote. The voting process is a simple majority in which each maintainer receives one vote.

And CNCF Graduation policy says a project must "Have committers from at least two organizations" [2]. So it appears that the CNCF accepted the "Steering Committee" as an acceptable 2nd committer, even though the Governance policy still gave the maintainers all of the power.

I would like to know if the Steering Committee voted to remove stable releases from an un-biased position acting in the best interest of the project, or if they were simply ignored or not even advised on the decision.

I'm all for Boyant doing what they need to do to make money and survive as a Company. But at that point my opinion is that they should withdraw the project from the CNCF and stop pretending like the foundation has any influence on the project's governance.

[0] https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/489ca1e3189b6a5289d...

From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).

https://linkerd.io/ is a much lighter-weight alternative but you do still get some of the fancy things like mtls without needing any manual configuration. Install it, label your namespaces, and let it do it's thing!

Would it be possible to create a custom extension with the code that authorize traffic based on my custom access token?

Open source API Gateway (Apache APISIX and Traefik), Service Mesh (Istio and Linkerd) solutions are capable of doing traffic splitting and implementing functionalities like Canary Release and Blue-Green deployment. With canary testing, you can make a critical examination of a new release of an API by selecting only a small portion of your user base. We will cover the canary release next section.

I have experimented with other service meshes and I was able to get up to speed quickly: Linkerd = 1 day, Istio = 3 days, NGINX Service Mesh = 5 days, but Consul Connect service mesh took at least 11 days to get off the ground. This is by far the most complex solution available.

https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 (random example)

Out of the number of service mesh solutions that exist, the most popular open source ones are: Linkerd, Istio, and Consul. Here at Koyeb, we are using Kuma.