Introducing myself to Kubernetes

I am starting my journey with kubernetes (k8s) and I want to share the tutorials and blog posts that I read. In that way I can find them easily too 😬. Kubernetes basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes: a very complete guide about the kubernetes basics and how they work internally. An introduction to Kubernetes.: defines kubernetes, pod, deployment, service, ingress, job, kubernetes control plane and when to NOT use k8s. Kubernetes tools: Developer Tooling for Kubernetes in 2021: Helm, Kustomize, and Skaffold. Important point here: kustomize is part of kubectl calling kubectl -k, so it will, possibly, become the standard. How To Manage Your Kubernetes Configurations with Kustomize Expose Your App to The Internet Using Ingress Controller kaniko - Build Images In Kubernetes This list will grow, but if you found any error or want to help me to improve this article, please comment the pull request ...

April 2, 2021 · 1 min · Tomás Dias Almeida

Mocking a http post server with node.js

Sometimes we need to contact remote servers and send him some data. It is hard to test the whole feature if the remote server does not offer you a sandbox environment. An easy way to do it is creating a mock http server and for me, the easiest way of doing it is with node.js Install node.js Node.js offers a great page for downloading it, I prefer to use it the package manager options. For macOS, I use brew: ...

January 6, 2021 · 2 min · Tomás Dias Almeida

Mocking static methods (and constructors) using Mockito 3.5.0+

Since version 3.4.0, Mockito allows us to mock static methods, so you do not need to add powermock as dependency for most of your necessities. I will not discuss why we should avoid static methods or helper class with static methods, as several articles do it quite well (1, 2, 3, etc..), we need to deal with static methods in the real world of development and mockito helps us to create unit tests when these static methods are involved. ...

December 30, 2020 · 4 min · Tomás Dias Almeida