Linux, DevOps, Middleware and Cloud

Jenkins has been one of the most used CI/CD tools. For every tool which we are using in our daily life, it becomes really challenges when it comes to handling secret information. I know there are lots of tools available provided with PAAS or in house hosting solution. But we need those tools to support integration with different toolsets without many efforts.  In this particular blog, we will be discussing the integration of Jenkins with the  Azure Key Vault . Thanks to all the guys who are continuously working for different communities and spending time to make product more flexible and enhancing the product capabilities. We are going to use Azure Key Vault  plugin for this. There are multiple ways to use this. But in this post, we'll go through the integration and then testing using declarative pipelines. Pre-Requisites- Make sure you have running Jenkins setup You have valid Azure subscription Implementation Steps-      1. Create a...

Keeping in mind the current situation across the world. I hope everyone is doing good. Please take precautions and stay at home and keep your self busy in whatever way you want to be. I was reading the book "Python for DevOps" and came across the topic "Packaging". In every business, packaging plays a big role while it comes to product distribution.  While it comes to IT software usually, below are the few things which should take care of : Descriptive Versioning  In Python packages, the following two variants are used: major.minor major.minor.micro major - for backward-incompatible changes minor - adds features that are also backward compatible micro - adds backward-compatible bug fixes. The Changelog This is a simple file that keeps track of all the changes we will be doing for each version upgrade. Not going in detail here, coming directly to implementation on how we can handle packaging in python using the "__init__.py"...