Ruan Bekker's Blog

This tutorial shows you how to use Ollama Local Models with Claude Code.

Learn what SonarQube is and how it helps improve code quality by detecting bugs, security issues, and code smells before they reach production.

Discover how to choose the right IT career path based on your interests, skills, and long-term goals.

Learn how to build a local AI assistant using llama-cpp-python.

Learn how to run Large Language Models (LLMs) locally using Ollama and integrate them into Python with langchain-ollama.

This tutorial shows you how to get started with ArgoCD and we will jump into some basics to understand how it works.

Discover how GitOps revolutionizes application and infrastructure management by leveraging Git as the single source of truth.

Learn how to use Fail2ban, a powerful tool to protect your Linux server from brute force attacks and unauthorized access.

This tutorial shows you Terraform Module Usage on Running Kubernetes KinD Clusters.

This tutorial shows you Run a Minecraft Server with Docker Compose.

This tutorial shows you how to use Terraform to store Passwords in AWS SecretsManager.

This tutorial shows you how to use KEDA to Autoscale Kubernetes Deployments based off Prometheus Metrics using KEDAs Prometheus integration.

Terraform Assume Roles: In AWS you can have multiple accounts and in Terraform you need to reference multiple resources in multiple accounts.

Discover how KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) enhances Kubernetes native scaling capabilities.

Kubernetes offers a variety of tools to enhance the robustness and high availability of your applications, including features like Pod Disruption Budgets, Pod Anti-Affinity, and Rolling Updates.

Learn how to automatically scale your applications in Kubernetes using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA).

Discover LocalStack: Your local AWS cloud stack for efficient and cost-effective development and testing.

Atlantis - Terraform: Learn how to set up Atlantis with GitLab to automate Terraform workflows.

Discover how Atlantis automates Terraform workflows, enhances collaboration, and improves infrastructure security with this comprehensive guide to its features and benefits.

Learn how to create a Terraform module to deploy a Kubernetes cluster locally using the Kind provider.

We will deploy a Go Restful API that will interact with the Kubernetes API so that our Go App can retrieve information about pods in the default namespace.

This blog post will guide you through an automated approach using Terraform and the Helm Terraform provider.

We will be using only Terraform to set up a IAM Role Service Account on Kubernetes, in order for our Grafana workloads to access AWS CloudWatch.

How to use implement multi-architecture (aarch64 and x86_64) docker builds with github actions.

This tutorial shows you Using Terraform to Deploy KinD Kubernetes Clusters.

This tutorial shows you on how to get Started with Argo CD on Kubernetes - A in-depth tutrial.

Kubernetes, Cert-Manager and Helm: This tutorial shows you How to use Cert-Manager DNS Challenge with Cloudflare on Kubernetes with Helm.

Kubernetes and Helm: This tutorial shows you How to deploy Ingress-Nginx Controller on Kubernetes with Helm.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to deploy a Kubernetes Cluster locally on your laptop using the utility called kind.

How to use Terraform to create Python AWS Lambda Functions.

This tutorial shows you how to use the mysql terraform provider.

This tutorial shows you how to use the aws terraform provider.

This tutorial shows you how to get started using ferretdb on docker.

This tutorial shows you how to run a amd64 linux vm on a mac m1 arm64 architecture.

This tutorial shows you how to run a multi-broker kafka cluster on docker.

This tutorial shows you how to manage helm releases with terraform.

This tutorial shows you how to persist terraform remote state in gitlab.

This tutorial shows you everything you need to know about helm.

Wiremock Tutorial: This tutorial shows you how to get started with wiremock.

This tutorial shows you how to utilise log management with docer promtail and grafana loki.

Step by step guide to demonstrate how to setup a local kubernetes cluster with KinD, and it's amazing

Blockchain and Digibyte: This tutorial will demonstrate how to setup a digibyte fullnode on the mainnet chain to interact with the blockchain.

This ansible playbook can be used to install homebrew packages for your macbook

This tutorial demonstrates how to use multistage builds using docker to take advantage of reducing the size of your final container image.

see how you can use remote docker contexts to save your laptops battery life by running computational heavy tasks on a remote docker engine with docker contexts

Learn how to setup a RAID5 array on Linux to achieve data redundancy for your servers.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to install a specific version of Python on Ubuntu Linux.

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to persist iptables rules across reboots.

This tutorial shows you how to read and write json data with python.

Linkding is a Bookmarks Service that runs on docker and is self-hosted.