Over the past few weeks I’ve been working extensively with all three technologies. Here are some of my notes: Terraform’s kubernetes provider is great for initializing the k8s cluster (cloud agnostically), but that’s about as far as you can reasonably go with it. …

Ephemeral cloud-based functions like AWS Lambda and GCE Functions are gaining traction quickly. If done right, they can be economically beneficial and enable infinite scalability™ without forcing you to wade into swarms of containers. If applied incorrectly, they can result in a much more expensive, over-engineered, and difficult to manage…

The purpose of this article is to highlight some of the most common and bulletproof deployment strategies (we’ll be using stackahoy.io here). We’ll cover: Basic Filesystem Deployment Pipeline Filesystem w/ CI Deployment Pipeline “Atomic” Strategy Configuration File Strategies Docker Deployment Basic Filesystem Deployment Pipeline While this is the most basic type of deployment, it’s…

By now, everyone is well aware of the rate at which deployment frequency has accelerated in the past three years. Releasing more frequently gets new features to market faster than your competition, enables snappier bug fixes, and reduces “user error” headaches. To get a real idea of what Silicon Valley-level…

Gone are the days when concatenating and uglifying your source code was sufficient. With es6 and es7 developing more rapidly than browser vendors can keep up with, typescript and flow type checking, and other aberrant requirements your project may have, the desire to use something to magically pipe and bundle…

This article assumes you are using (or interested in using) GitLab and GitLab CI. While the following explains how to deploy Docker containers, it can easily be adjusted to accommodate any type of project. Feel free to post any questions in the comments section below. Objectives Once the production branch (or…

When we started Lev two years ago, we faced a decision that companies and organizations of all stripes need to deal with — deployments. There is a seemingly infinite number of setups but, in our view, all options seem to fall short in one way or another. …