The CloudTruth Blog

The Most Common Secrets Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Passwords, API keys, certificates, and other sensitive data are critical to your organization’s ability to ​​authenticate applications and users, in addition to providing... Read More

Configuration Management

5 Reasons Why You Need Centralized Cloud Configuration

Configuration management is a mess. Keeping track of an increasing number of parameters and secrets for multiple environments, all while continuously deploying, is no small... Read More

Kubernetes

How Do You Write a Helm Chart?

When you’re configuring Kubernetes applications, they can get complex. Depending on how many microservices you have, you could be dealing with multiple Kubernetes manifests... Read More

Kubernetes

Should I learn Docker or Kubernetes first?

As organizations attempt to keep costs low and want to make applications not only easier to deploy but easier to manage, Docker and Kubernetes are at the forefront of their... Read More

Application Configuration

App Configuration and Project Structure in Cloudtruth

In many environments, managing app configuration data (secrets, API keys, parameters, environment variables, etc.) can be cumbersome. If you have a dev, staging, and... Read More

Kubernetes

Deploy Kubernetes with Terraform and CloudTruth

When you’re thinking about what infrastructure you’re going to deploy and what cloud you’re going to use, nine times out of ten you’re most likely going to go the... Read More

Kubernetes

Kubernetes Secrets and Vault: How CloudTruth Helps

Managing secrets in one location for resources and services to retrieve them is a pain. Whether those resources and services are in the cloud or on-prem, you need an easy way... Read More

Kubernetes

How to Set Environment Variables in a Kubernetes Pod

When you’re configuring a Kubernetes pod, you’ll need a specific environment configuration for an application. Whether it’s a port that the app is using or a version of the... Read More

Kubernetes

How Do I Start Learning Kubernetes?

In today’s world, orchestrating and managing Docker containers with Kubernetes is a big deal. More and more workloads are moving to containerized environments, especially at... Read More

Kubernetes

Create and Update Kubernetes Parameters in CloudTruth

When you’re working with anything Kubernetes-related, chances are you’re working with a Kubernetes manifest. Kubernetes parameters include secrets and ConfigMaps. Read More

Kubernetes

What’s the Difference between a Kubernetes ConfigMap and a Secret?

Have you ever written a Dictionary in Python? Or a Hash Table in another programming language? If you have, you’ll notice a common trend in what they actually are; key/value... Read More

Configuration Management

Manage Multiple Environment Configurations

Environments as Hierarchies: A CloudTruth Approach If you’re still managing multiple environment configurations with a copy/paste/edit file method it’s time to learn about a... Read More