Testing Kubernetes and infrastructure as code with Sid Palas (k6 Office Hours)

Testing Kubernetes and infrastructure as code with Sid Palas (k6 Office Hours)

k6
Apr 10, 2021

In this office hours, Nicole van der Hoeven and Simme Aronsson are joined by Sid Palas from the DevOps Directive to talk about Kubernetes, Terraform, Kubeflow, and how they can be used to simplify application deployment.

0:00 Introduction to Sid Palas and DevOps Directive
7:59 Getting started with Kubernetes
10:40 What is Kubernetes anyway?
13:34 How Kubernetes changes things for testers
21:20 Kubernetes isn't just a container orchestrator
24:09 Other gotchas when working in k8s
31:57 What is infrastructure as code (IaC)?
34:32 Difference between imperative and declarative IaC tools
37:10 Treat your infrastructure as cattle, not pets
46:48 Is k8s part of IaC?
49:23 Advice for teams moving to IaC
55:17 When SHOULDN'T you use Terraform and IaC?
59:50 Outro

More k6 Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Nicole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven
Simme on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0x12b
Sid Palas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sidpalas

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6

Learn more about Sid Palas and DevOps Directive:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MdpjzjPuop_qWNAvR23JA
Site: https://devopsdirective.com/