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DevOps Demos. Boilerplates/Samples, Tutorials and Screencasts

!!! info "Architectural Context" Detailed reference for DevOps Demos. Boilerplates/Samples, Tutorials and Screencasts in the context of Architectural Foundations.

Table of Contents

  1. AI and Data Engineering
  1. Application Architecture
  1. Application Delivery
  1. Application Development
  1. Application Migration
  1. Application Modernization
  1. Architecture
  1. Artificial Intelligence and LLMs
  1. CI-CD
  1. CICD
  1. CICD and DevOps
  1. CICD Infrastructure
  1. CICD Pipeline
  1. CICD Pipeline Architecture
  1. CICD Pipelines
  1. Cloud IoT
  1. Cloud Learning
  1. Cloud Native
  1. Cloud Native Architecture
  1. Cloud Native Infrastructure
  1. Cloud Native Platforms
  1. Cloud Platform
  1. Cloud Providers
  1. Cloud Security
  1. Cloud-Native Application Development
  1. Cloud-Native Applications
  1. Cloud-Native Infrastructure
  1. Cloud-Native Java
  1. Container Orchestration
  1. Containerization
  1. Core Orchestration
  1. Data Engineering
  1. Data Science
  1. Data Storage
  1. Database and Storage
  1. DevOps
  1. DevOps and CICD
  1. DevOps and Platform Engineering
  1. DevOps Philosophy
  1. DevSecOps and Automation
  1. DevSecOps and IDEs
  1. Developer Experience
  1. Developer Tools
  1. Education
  1. Enterprise Architecture
  1. Enterprise Integration
  1. Event-Driven Architectures
  1. Extensibility
  1. GitOps
  1. GitOps and Declarative Git
  1. Governance and Security
  1. Hybrid Cloud Platforms
  1. Hybrid Cloud Solutions
  1. Infrastructure
  1. Infrastructure and DevOps
  1. Infrastructure and Operations
  1. Infrastructure and Platform
  1. Infrastructure as Code
  1. Infrastructure as Code and CI-CD
  1. Java Cloud Native
  1. Kubernetes Tools
  1. Local Development
  1. Networking
  1. Observability
  1. Observability and Testing
  1. Orchestration
  1. Platform Architecture
  1. Platform Deployment
  1. Platform Engineering
  1. Provisioning
  1. Public Cloud Providers
  1. Quality Assurance
  1. Reference Architectures
  1. Resource Portal
  1. Security
  1. Security and Compliance
  1. Security and Governance
  1. Serverless and Knative
  1. Serverless Architectures
  1. Service Mesh
  1. Software Development

AI and Data Engineering

Azure Container Apps

Terraform and OpenAI

Application Architecture

Event-Driven

GraphQL

  • (2021) hasura.io: A Simple, Realtime, Event Driven Architecture with QR Codes [JAVASCRIPT CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Demonstrates the construction of a real-time QR generation microservice using Hasura's instant GraphQL engine and PostgreSQL event triggers. Illustrates stateless serverless handlers reacting to database write mutations in real-time.

Application Delivery

Asynchronous Messaging

Red Hat Fuse

CICD Pipelines

Multi-Cluster Deployments

Tekton Pipelines

Tekton Tasks

  • (2023) ==OpenShift Pipelines Catalog== 52 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The central repository containing reusable Tekton Tasks and Pipelines optimized for OpenShift. Provides pre-built blocks for standard development patterns, including Git integration, Maven compilations, and SonarQube analyses.

Tekton Templates

Workshops

Containerization

Docker

  • (2021) linuxtechlab.com: How to create a Dockerfile with some dockerfile examples [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Practical walkthrough demonstrating how to construct secure, optimized, and multi-staged Dockerfiles. Discusses layer caching optimizations, base-image selection (e.g., Alpine vs. Debian), and security isolation options. (Live Grounding: Standard foundational knowledge that remains critical for building minimal, vulnerable-free runtime containers).

Self-Hosted Apps

  • (2024) Mautic [DOCKERFILE/SHELL CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Official Docker container setups for deploying Mautic, an open-source marketing automation platform, covering multi-container composition, persistent volumes, and database link configurations. (Live Grounding: A great example of migrating legacy monolithic PHP/MySQL stacks into structured OCI container configurations).

Database Schema Management

Liquibase Integration

Deployment Strategies

Canary Deployments

Developer Platforms

App Deployment

  • (2021) shipa.io: Deploying a real-world application on Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Walks through deploying a multi-tier production-grade application on Kubernetes using Shipa framework abstraction policies instead of raw, complex manifests. (Live Grounding: Demonstrates early architectural trends aiming to simplify the developer experience by decoupling container configurations from platform management).

Local Development

  • (2021) shipa.io: Developing and deploying applications to Kubernetes locally with Shipa and Minikube [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Showcases local application delivery pipelines combining Minikube with Shipa's developer-focused abstractions. Allows engineers to deploy code without writing verbose YAML. (Live Grounding: Important context for 2026 Developer Platforms. Shipa was acquired by Snyk in 2023, shifting its core value towards Snyk AppRisk for secure cloud development).

Enterprise Modernization

Migration Toolkit

  • (2020) Migration Toolkit for Applications: Getting Started [JAVA CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Guides teams in utilizing Red Hats Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA) to analyze legacy Java frameworks for cloud compatibility. Identifies proprietary dependencies and reports on modernization pathways.
  • (2020) Migration Toolkit for Applications Demo - June 2020 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A video walkthrough showcasing the analysis, automated code scanning, and structural reporting metrics generated by the Migration Toolkit for Applications to expedite migration tasks.

Multi-Cluster Strategy

GitOps

Microservices Showcase

Multi-Cluster Deployments (1)

Multi-Tenancy

  • (2023) ==cloud-native-toolkit/multi-tenancy-gitops 🌟== 120 [YAML / SHELL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A production-grade toolkit mapping GitOps and Argo CD architectures onto multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. Outlines secure separation patterns, namespace isolations, and policy sync mechanisms for scaling environments.

kam CLI

Java on Kubernetes

Eclipse JKube Tools

Load Balancing

High Availability

  • (2021) dev.to: Build a highly available Node.js application using Docker, NGINX and AWS ELB [JAVASCRIPT/SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A detailed tutorial on architectural multi-tiering. Focuses on setting up a containerized Node.js application behind an NGINX reverse proxy, balanced globally by an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for resilient target routing. (Live Grounding: Focuses on classic VM-to-container cloud architectures, forming a vital cognitive bridge before migrating entirely to Kubernetes Ingress/Gateway APIs).

Application Development

Base Images

Buildah

Universal Base Image

Cloud-Native Java

Advanced Microservices

Spring Boot Microservices

Tanzu Framework

  • (2022) tanzu.vmware.com: Microservices with Spring Cloud Kubernetes Reference Architecture 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Provides the canonical reference architecture for running high-scale Spring Cloud applications natively on Kubernetes. Evaluates Spring Cloud Kubernetes integrations for service discovery, centralized configuration via ConfigMaps, and seamless external secrets management, aligning with 2026 Tanzu application platform standards.

Containerization (1)

Java Spring Boot

  • (2021) javatechonline.com: How To Deploy Spring Boot Application In Docker? [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — An introductory walkthrough detailing how to containerize Java-based enterprise workloads. Focuses on constructing optimized Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds to minimize image footprint, and utilizing spring-boot-maven-plugin or buildpacks to generate production-ready container layers.

Developer Tools

Alternative Tooling

  • (2021) youtube: No YAML! Kubernetes done the easy way | DevNation Tech Talk [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A DevNation Tech Talk analyzing methods to abstract, simplify, or completely bypass manual YAML creation on Kubernetes. Reviews developer-friendly frameworks that translate code-based configurations directly into running containers.

Enterprise Java Platforms

JBoss Foundations

  • (2021) redhat.com: Getting started with JBoss [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A historical and architectural overview of JBoss, designed for enterprise Java architects. Explains how JBoss evolved from a heavyweight application server to modular setups optimized for modern virtual machines and enterprise containers.

Java

Build Automation

Local Development (1)

  • (2020) piotrminkowski.com: Spring Boot on Kubernetes with Buildpacks and Skaffold 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — High-velocity development workflow blueprint leveraging Cloud Native Buildpacks and Skaffold to accelerate Java Spring Boot coding loops on Kubernetes. Minimizes manual Dockerfile maintenance and streamlines instantaneous hot-reloading code modifications into active development clusters.

Microservices Demo

  • (2020) redhat-actions/spring-petclinic 4 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — Red Hat's enterprise fork of the classical Spring Petclinic microservice framework, tailored for deployment patterns on Red Hat OpenShift and vanilla Kubernetes. Showcases optimized Containerfile definitions and integrated automated CI/CD pipelines.

Project Bootstrapping

  • (2026) Spring Initializr 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The premier initialization dashboard for the Spring ecosystem. Incorporates direct dependency bindings to native Kubernetes microservices components, generating pre-configured templates with container-ready, cloud-native properties.

Microservices Showcase (1)

Spring Boot

  • (2021) MapIt [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — MapIt is an interactive Spring Boot microservice designed to demonstrate cloud-native design principles on OpenShift. Showcases routing, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA), and config management using platform resources.

NodeJS

Deployment Tooling

Process Automation

RHPAM

Python

Django

  • (2020) dev.to: Django on K8s (Part 0: Introduction) [PYTHON CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An introductory guide addressing Django application architectures tailored specifically for Containerization. Explains initial configurations, environment separation, Dockerfile design practices, and the integration of database migration steps into standard container start routines.

Scalability

  • (2021) digitalocean.com: How To Deploy a Scalable and Secure Django Application with Kubernetes [PYTHON CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A definitive deployment manual demonstrating how to host, scale, and secure Python Django applications using Kubernetes. Explores decoupling static assets to object storage, wrapping backend gunicorn runtimes, orchestrating connection-pooled PostgreSQL services, and utilizing Secrets for environmental configuration safety.

Reference Templates

OpenShift 4.8

Runtimes and CMS

Strapi CMS

Serverless Java

Quarkus Integration

gRPC Communication

  • (2023) piotrminkowski.com: Introduction to gRPC with Quarkus [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explores the integration of low-latency gRPC services inside Quarkus. Demonstrates schema-first API creation via Protocol Buffers, building high-performance non-blocking streaming services, and optimizing binary communication interfaces for modern microservices.

Tutorials

Developer Demos

  • (2023) Red Hat Tutorials & Examples: github.com/redhat-developer-demos 🌟 [JAVA / GO / NODE.JS CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The main repository for Red Hat Developer developer demos. Offers a variety of quickstarts covering modern Java/Go runtimes, microservices integration, Kubernetes-native deployments, and pipeline automation designs.

Application Migration

Containerization Tools

Move2Kube

  • (2023) Move2Kube [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Focuses on Move2Kube, a command-line utility within the Konveyor toolset designed to automate migration pathways. It analyzes configuration files from source environments (such as Docker Compose or Cloud Foundry) and auto-generates platform-ready Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and custom Tekton pipelines.

Application Modernization

Integration Frameworks

OpenShift and Camel

Spring to Quarkus

Framework Migration

  • (2020) aytartana.wordpress.com: Migrating SpringBoot PetClinic REST to Quarkus [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A detailed migration journal porting the classic Spring Boot PetClinic REST API to Quarkus. Provides valuable benchmarking metrics comparing memory footprints, startup latencies, and implementation adjustments required for compilation to GraalVM native images.

Architecture

Microservices

Demo Systems

  • (2021) hbollon/k8s-voting-app-aws 34 [GO CONTENT] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Reference multi-tier microservice architecture demonstrating AWS integration. Contains a polyglot microservice arrangement with Redis caches, PostgreSQL transactional engines, and reactive frontend layers structured for EKS deployments.

Design Patterns

  • (2021) itnext.io: Journey Of A Microservice Application In The Kubernetes World [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Comprehensive architectural case study outlining the functional lifecycle journey of a microservice application cluster inside Kubernetes. Details cross-cutting concerns including distributed service discovery, secret distribution, configurations management, ingress controllers, and decentralized persistent data handling.

Artificial Intelligence and LLMs

Prompt Engineering

Developer Productivity

  • (2024) Awesome NotebookLM Slide Prompts 3761 [MARKDOWN CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — A master curation of system-level prompt templates specifically optimized for Google NotebookLM. It accelerates complex source material ingestions, contextual extractions, and structured summarizing processes for technical architects. (Live Grounding: Highlights the 2026 intersection of AI workflow orchestration and engineering documentation maintenance).

CI-CD

Azure

GitHub Actions

Azure AKS

GitHub Actions (1)

  • (2021) trstringer.com: Deploy to AKS from GitHub Actions 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A precise deployment guide detailing continuous integration and deployment to AKS from GitHub Actions. Explores how to leverage secure Azure Service Principals and Federated Credentials (OIDC) to safely authenticate and update container workloads.

Infrastructure

Rancher

  • (2020) Deploy a Rancher Cluster with GitLab CI and Terraform [HCL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Step-by-step automation blueprint demonstrating how to provision and orchestrate Rancher multi-cluster control planes. Harnesses Terraform to scale target virtual machines and GitLab CI to deploy and maintain management-plane state configurations.

Java (1)

Automated Workflows

  • (2020) CI/CD for Kubernetes through a Spring Boot example (Banzai Cloud CI/CD) [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Continuous Integration and Deployment guide utilizing Banzai Cloud automation pipelines for Spring Boot applications. Illustrates container building, secure credential handling, configuration injects, and blue-green application promotion tactics on Kubernetes.

Platform-as-a-Service

OpenShift

  • (2018) stackoverflow: How to define BuildConfig object with Jenkins and openshift [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [LEGACY] — Curator Insight addresses automated OpenShift build pipelines. Live Grounding details the precise YAML and Jenkins pipeline syntax needed to safely trigger BuildConfig objects from external CI nodes. It remains highly relevant for legacy Jenkins-to-OpenShift integrations.

CICD

GitLab CI

Pipeline Design

GitOps (1)

GitLab Agent

  • (2022) about.gitlab.com: GitOps with GitLab: Connect with a Kubernetes cluster [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Step-by-step documentation detailing the setup of the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes. Provides secure pull-based GitOps workflows, ensuring real-time configuration sync and immediate cluster telemetry reporting to the GitLab enterprise console.

Jenkins

Jenkins Pipeline Training

Parallel Pipelines

  • (2021) Using Jenkins Pipeline parallel stages to build Maven project with different JDKs [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A technical guide illustrating how to build a Maven project against multiple JDKs simultaneously using Jenkins parallel stages. Live Grounding highlights its architectural utility for modern engineering, ensuring system backward-compatibility and multi-runtime reliability during pipeline validation.

SDKMAN

Docker Integration
  • (2021) Using SDKMAN! as a docker image for Jenkins Pipeline - a step by step guide 🌟 [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — This tutorial explains how to use SDKMAN! inside a Docker container within a Jenkins Declarative Pipeline to build Java projects using different compiler versions. Live Grounding highlights its architectural value, eliminating the need to maintain distinct runner VMs or complex custom Dockerfiles for each target JDK configuration.

CICD and DevOps

Enterprise Jenkins

OpenShift Integration

  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: An easier way to create custom Jenkins containers in OpenShift 4 🌟 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical deep-dive for enterprise platform engineers building custom, secure Jenkins master images for OpenShift 4. Outlines Red Hat universal base images (UBI) optimization and policy-compliant plugin packaging.
  • (2020) OpenShift Pipelines with Jenkins Blue Ocean 🌟 [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Guide on utilizing Jenkins Blue Ocean inside Red Hat OpenShift to build visual representations of continuous integration pipelines. Integrates OpenShift buildconfigs with user-friendly visualization panels.
  • (2020) github.com/siamaksade/jenkins-blueocean [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Public demonstration repository providing configured manifests for launching Jenkins Blue Ocean on OpenShift clusters. Acts as a blueprint for visualizing pipeline stages in Red Hat environments.

CICD Infrastructure

Build and Packaging

Custom Packager

  • (2025) Jenkins Custom WAR Packager 87 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Duplicate citation verification for the Custom WAR Packager. Serves as the primary operational tool used to generate custom, pre-hardened enterprise Jenkins distributions tailored with pre-allocated configurations.

Configuration as Code

Job Generation

  • (2025) How to create initial "seed" job 2790 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — An operational setup manual detailing how to bootstrap a primary seed job inside configuration-as-code files. This enables the controller to dynamically generate all subsequent projects automatically on initial server launch.

Plugin Management

CLI Tooling

  • (2025) Plugin Installation Manager Tool 460 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A vital dependency management utility designed to download and package plugin bundles offline before launching controllers. Eradicates run-time dependency resolution issues inside restricted, isolated air-gapped container networks.

CICD Pipeline

Automation Ecosystems

Jenkins and Nexus

  • (2019) Continuous Delivery with Sonatype Nexus, Jenkins and the Cloudogu Ecosystem [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Illustrates a full CD pipeline design combining Jenkins automation pipelines, Sonatype Nexus artifact caching, and the Cloudogu developer platform ecosystem. It discusses how to decouple build outputs, secure package verification, and trigger orchestrations. It demonstrates how standardizing on artifact-centric builds minimizes drift in multi-environment configurations.

CICD Pipeline Architecture

Pipeline Testing

Local Execution

  • (2025) Jenkinsfile Runner Test Framework [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A dedicated integration test harness designed to systematically validate pipeline structures using localized Jenkinsfile Runner micro-runtimes. Ensures robust sanity checking without deploying configurations to dynamic server nodes.

Unit Testing

  • (2025) Jenkins Pipeline Unit testing framework 1585 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — The standard community pipeline testing toolkit. Simplifies verifying multi-step pipeline syntax, credential queries, and shared libraries within local mock environments, accelerating delivery validation times.

CICD Pipelines (1)

Automated Cloud Deployments

AWS ECS Deployments

Kubernetes CD Pipelines

  • (2023) nicwortel.nl: Continuous deployment to Kubernetes with GitHub Actions [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A clear operational guide showcasing custom deployments to external Kubernetes clusters using GitHub Actions. Explains secure credential management, configuring kubectl contexts, and deploying applications with zero-downtime rolling updates.

Automated Image Builds

Image Builder Workflows

  • (2021) github.com/major/imagebuilder-containerized 1 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An active GitHub Actions workflow blueprint orchestrating containerized OS image compilation. Demonstrates clean, multi-step pipeline actions to automatically package, build, and push customized bootable operating system images directly from GitHub.

Automated Testing

Ephemeral K3s Cluster

  • (2022) debianmaster/actions-k3s 109 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A lightweight community action creating custom, ephemerally provisioned K3s Kubernetes instances directly within GitHub Actions runtime runner VMs. Extremely valuable for running end-to-end integration tests on fully functional clusters.

Pytest and GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps Solutions

GitHub Actions Integration

Data Engineering

Automated Data Pipelines

Multi-Cluster GitOps

ArgoCD Orchestrations

Security and Compliance

DevSecOps Integration

  • (2022) judebantony.github.io: DevSecOps with GitHub Action and SaaS Tools [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Details a practical approach to modern DevSecOps pipeline construction. Highlights step-by-step additions of static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secrets auditing inside automated GitHub Actions runs.

GitHub Actions Security

Cloud IoT

Digital Twins

API Management

  • (2020) ==github.com/microsoft/azure-digital-twins-postman-samples== 21 [JSON CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A collection of pre-configured Postman templates and environment schemas designed to test, model, and automate Azure Digital Twins API endpoints. Simplifies validation tasks across graph topology manipulation and event routing controls.

Cloud Learning

Curriculum

Cloud Engineering

  • (2026) learntocloud.guide [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — An open-source, highly structured educational roadmap designed to transition traditional sysadmins into proficient cloud engineers. It guides learners through networking, Linux administration, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native topologies. Live grounding highlights its massive adoption within the DevOps community.

Cloud Native

Continuous Integration

CI-CD Pipelines

Red Hat OpenShift

Security

Policy Enforcement

  • (2020) chrisns/k8s-opa-boilerplate 18 [REGO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A minimal, highly instructional boilerplate repository demonstrating Open Policy Agent (OPA) integration inside Kubernetes using Gatekeeper. Helps bootstrap policy-as-code paradigms to secure deployments and enforce structural admission controls.

Cloud Native Architecture

Kubernetes

Fundamentals

  • (2021) dyser/kubernetes-intro [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An introductory educational repository containing configurations and setups for running basic Spring boot workloads in Kubernetes. Created by JVM leader Dave Syer, it provides minimal, clean manifests that demystify container networking and volumes. This repository remains a stable reference for those starting their cloud-native journey.

Microservices Migration

Case Study

  • (2023) Salaboy/From Monolith to K8s 354 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A comprehensive practical blueprint mapping out the refactoring of monolithic architectures to Kubernetes-native services. Demonstrates key modernization steps including structural separation of services, data partitioning, and ingress configuration. This project is highly referenceable as a hands-on pedagogical resource for architectural transitions.

Cloud Native Infrastructure

Enterprise Messaging

Kafka on Kubernetes

APIs and Gateways
  • (2020) HTTP-based Kafka messaging with Red Hat AMQ Streams [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — This guide covers the deployment and operational use of the Strimzi Kafka Bridge within Red Hat AMQ Streams. It exposes an HTTP-based REST API to Kafka, enabling lightweight web clients and non-native applications to produce and consume messages without importing complex Kafka client SDKs. Highlights include API request schemas, JSON payload configuration, and HTTP/Kafka translation semantics.

Observability and Testing

Pod Mocking

  • (2024) stefanprodan/podinfo 5917 [GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — A premium go-to microservice web application written in Go, specifically designed to showcase best practices in Kubernetes deployment, health checking, instrumentation (Prometheus/Jaeger), and progressive delivery validation (such as Flagger/Istio canary releases).

Cloud Native Platforms

Red Hat OpenShift (1)

Automation Grading

Academic Homework
  • (2021) Grading Pipeline for OpenShift 4 Advanced Application Deployment Homework Assignment [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight frames this as a grading pipeline automated for assessing advanced application deployment homework on OpenShift 4. Live Grounding indicates it uses script-based compliance checks to programmatically evaluate multi-tier deployments. This architecture is valuable for automated environment auditing and continuous validation platforms.

Jenkins Pipelines

Deployment Automation
  • (2019) github.com/gnunn1/openshift-basic-pipeline [GROOVY CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Curator Insight highlights this duplicate resource as a persistent reference point for the basic OpenShift pipeline. Live Grounding reinforces that its utility lies in simple demonstrations of source-to-image (S2I) pipelines. It highlights the simplicity of legacy OpenShift-Jenkins plugins before the emergence of cloud-native Tekton workflows.
Lab Environments
  • (2019) github.com/deweya/OpenShift-Jenkins-Lab [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight identifies this repository as a sandbox lab configuration for teaching Jenkins deployment patterns inside OpenShift clusters. Live Grounding confirms it provides hands-on instructions for configuring webhooks and build triggers. It serves as a structural blueprint for configuring self-contained pipeline demonstrations.

Local Development (2)

CodeReady Containers
  • (2021) Red Hat CodeReady Containers (Minishift equivalent for OpenShift 4.2 or newer) - step-by-step demo guides [SHELL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight positions this project as a step-by-step demo guide for Red Hat CodeReady Containers (CRC), representing the modern equivalent of local Minishift. Live Grounding reveals CRC is an essential local development environment simulating multi-node OpenShift setups. The demos illustrate localized microservice deployment and validation before pushing to enterprise stages.

Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

Sample Architecture

  • (2026) github.com/Azure-Samples 🌟 [NONE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Central directory of Azure engineering samples. Provides production-ready templates, deployment scripts, and reference implementations spanning Serverless, Azure Kubernetes Service, container orchestration, and multi-tenant systems.

Cloud Providers

AWS

Workshops (1)

  • (2018) blog.openshift.com: AWS and red hat quickstart workshop [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Historical workshop manual detailing early CloudFormation blueprints for hosting OpenShift instances on AWS. Replaced entirely by contemporary ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) implementations.

AWS EKS

Foundational

  • (2021) aws.amazon.com: Deploy a kubernetes application [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official AWS documentation presenting core application deployment workflows on Amazon EKS. Walks through basic VPC considerations, creating standard manifests, exposing application services, and utilizing classic dynamic volume provisioning.

GitOps Tooling

  • (2021) aws blogs: Git Push to Deploy Your App on EKS [GO CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explains the deployment of Gitkube on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for git-push deployment mechanics. Historically useful for early rapid prototyping loops, though in 2026 this pattern is largely superseded by enterprise GitOps frameworks like Flux or ArgoCD.

Masterclass

  • (2022) github.com/stacksimplify/aws-eks-kubernetes-masterclass 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An extensive educational repository focusing on EKS operations. Showcases production patterns including IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), configuring AWS Load Balancer Controller, external DNS integrations, and persistent cluster volume setups.

Provisioning

  • (2021) dzone: deploying a kubernetes cluster with amazon eks 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A guide detailing the deployment of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters. Guides readers through VPC subnets subnet planning, configure public/private node isolation, security settings, and kubectl client integration.

Google GKE

Application Dev

Provisioning (1)

Cloud Security

Identity and Access Management

OIDC Providers

  • (2022) dev.to/aws-builders: From Scratch: OIDC Providers [NONE CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Examines the configuration of OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers to establish a trust relationship between multi-cloud workloads and AWS IAM. Discusses keyless authentication paradigms and JSON Web Token (JWT) validation without requiring long-lived access keys.

Cloud-Native Application Development

Go Development

Microservices (1)

  • (2023) github.com/learning-cloud-native-go/myapp: Learning Cloud Native Go -' myapp 🌟 1093 [GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A reference Go application engineered specifically to demonstrate cloud-native design principles, featuring integrated telemetry endpoints, structured JSON logging, health probes (/healthz, /ready), and graceful termination handles. (Live Grounding: Serves as a textbook design blueprint for Golang microservices deployed within Kubernetes environments).

Open Source Software

Reference Implementations

  • (2021) todaywasawesome/oss-apps: OSS Applications [YAML/HELM CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A collection of production-ready, open-source application stack blueprints formatted for modern container and cloud platform environments. (Live Grounding: Serves as a reference baseline for application engineers evaluating functional cloud-native topologies).

Cloud-Native Applications

Java Microservices

Azure Container Apps (1)

  • (2025) docs.microsoft.com: Deploy Spring microservices to Azure [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Architectural reference documentation illustrating Spring microservice deployment strategies on Azure Container Apps (ACA). Compares managed Spring Cloud components with raw container configurations.

Container Images

  • (2021) ref 4 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Docker container image representing the Customer Service sub-domain of the decomposed Spring Petclinic microservices suite. Designed for direct cluster deployments to test service-to-service communication.

Kubernetes Deployment

  • (2024) ==github.com/spring-petclinic/spring-petclinic-kubernetes 🌟== 168 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A benchmark microservices architecture implementation demonstrating Spring Cloud and Spring Boot integration on Kubernetes. Demonstrates externalized configuration via Spring Cloud Config, service discovery, API gateway routing, and distributed tracing. Ideal reference for containerizing JVM monoliths.

Spring Cloud

  • (2025) ==Spring PetClinic Microservices== 2136 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The canonical reference implementation of the Spring PetClinic application decomposed into microservices. It leverages Spring Cloud Eureka, Spring Cloud Gateway, and Spring Cloud Config Server to showcase resilient distributed patterns.
  • (2020) Distributed version of Spring Petclinic built with Spring Cloud 🌟 2 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A community-maintained fork of the distributed Spring PetClinic codebase focusing on alternative Spring Cloud configurations. Provides a lean reference for configuring multi-module Gradle/Maven setups for local microservice debugging.

Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Kubernetes Core

Cluster Access Security

  • (2020) blog.scottlowe.org: Using kubectl via an SSH Tunnel [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Provides step-by-step instructions for establishing secure SSH tunnels to reach private Kubernetes cluster control planes. Solves public exposure issues of the Kubernetes API server using proxy forwarding. (Live Grounding: Standard fallback security access pattern, often replaced by modern Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) brokers in larger companies).

Container Deployments

  • (2020) codeburst.io: getting started with kubernetes, deploy a docker container in 5 minutes [YAML/SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A rapid prototyping guide targeting beginners to container orchestration, showcasing how to deploy an existing Docker container onto a Kubernetes cluster in under five minutes. (Live Grounding: Excellent for quick onboarding, though skips advanced security context configurations and networking rules).

Declarative Templates

  • (2024) Kubernetes Examples 1421 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly utilized, production-tested blueprint repository containing foundational Kubernetes manifests. It spans standard ingress rules, complex stateful configurations, and container startup patterns. (Live Grounding: An essential reference repository for platform engineers bootstrapping cloud topologies with validated standards).

Storage Operations

  • (2021) itnext.io: K8s raise StatefulSet volume size with low impact [YAML/SHELL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A crucial operations guide detailing how to safely expand Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) bound to StatefulSets with minimal workload impact. Covers volume expansion capability (VolumeExpansion) within storage classes and live file-system resizing. (Live Grounding: Fundamental knowledge for running high-throughput production databases without service degradation).

Workload Management

  • (2021) howtoforge.com: How to create a Deployment in Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Step-by-step procedural tutorial explaining the structure of a standard Kubernetes Deployment manifest, dynamic replica scaling, and seamless rollout update strategies. (Live Grounding: Fundamental foundational knowledge for setting up standard declarative app workloads).

Learning Resources

Containerization Workshops

  • (2022) github.com/kubernetes-course/container_workshops [SHELL/DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Workshop curriculum dedicated to fundamental container internals, isolation concepts, namespaces, and runtime interactions. (Live Grounding: Serves as an excellent fundamental base for engineers seeking to demystify low-level OCI runtime mechanisms).

IaC

  • (2025) github.com/wardviaene (kubernetes, terraform, ansible, docker, etc) 🌟 [HCL/YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A public code profile hosting highly referenceable configuration setups across Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. The repositories serve as companion code for prominent DevOps bootcamps, detailing clean infrastructure-as-code patterns. (Live Grounding: Continually referenced by global practitioners transitioning to cloud infrastructure specialties).

Kubernetes Courses

  • (2024) wardviaene/kubernetes-course 1732 [YAML/GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — Accompanying codebase for Ward Viaene's comprehensive Kubernetes course, demonstrating deployments, configurations, microservice communication patterns, and cloud migrations. (Live Grounding: Widely trusted community-backed repository illustrating production-grade YAML configurations).

Kubernetes Playgrounds

  • (2025) Free Kubernetes 🌟🌟 1158 [MARKDOWN CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly-rated index of free Kubernetes sandboxes, development clusters, managed trials, and learning environments. Designed to lower the financial entry barrier for developers. (Live Grounding: Continually updated to include current free tiers, allowing quick architectural sandboxing without infrastructure bills).

Kubernetes Workshops

  • (2021) github.com/eon01/kubernetes-workshop [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Hands-on introductory workshop materials covering fundamental Kubernetes concepts, including Pods, Services, Deployments, and ingress controller definitions. (Live Grounding: Solid reference for classroom-based learning or self-paced platform orchestration upskilling).
  • (2020) Kubernetes workshop in a box [YAML CONTENT] [LEGACY] — An archival portal hosting a self-contained, offline-capable 'Kubernetes Workshop in a Box.' Designed to run interactive tutorials without reliable internet connections. (Live Grounding: While some container tooling patterns are archived, the offline structure is a highly referenced model for local development isolation).

Cloud-Native Java (1)

Build Tools

Eclipse JKube

Developer Workflow
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: Java development on top of Kubernetes using Eclipse JKube 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — This article demonstrates outer-loop developer workflows utilizing Eclipse JKube to deploy Java applications straight to running Kubernetes clusters. Live Grounding illustrates how JKube's design empowers local development cycles by bypassing manual YAML writing, instead building and pushing directly via standard IDE integrations and build loops.

Runtimes

JBoss EAP

MicroProfile

Container Orchestration

Kubernetes (1)

Application Migration (1)

  • (2018) github.com/paulczar/k8s-spring-petclinic [SHELL CONTENT] [LEGACY] — An archived community demonstration showing the deployment of the legacy Spring PetClinic application to raw Kubernetes. Utilizes direct YAML manifests and basic service discovery, serving as a historical baseline for modern Helm/Kustomize deployments.

Java Deployment Guides

  • (2018) tech.paulcz.net/blog/spring-into-kubernetes-part-1 [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A foundational blog post walking through the process of containerizing and deploying a Spring Boot application onto a Kubernetes cluster. Details the transition from local JAR execution to containerized environments, highlighting early JVM memory footprint challenges.

Containerization (2)

AWS ECS

JFrog Artifactory

Docker (1)

Prebuilt Images

  • (2023) ref 5 arey/springboot-petclinic [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly pulled, community-maintained Spring Boot Petclinic image optimized for lean runtimes. Includes built-in multi-architecture CPU support (ARM64/AMD64) ideal for localized testing and local Kubernetes clusters.
  • (2020) ref 3 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Docker image for the Spring Petclinic application instrumented with APM and monitoring agents. Useful for evaluating telemetry collection, performance profiling, and tracing agents inside isolated container runs.
  • (2019) ref 2 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A community-packaged Docker image of the classic Spring Petclinic application. Created primarily to facilitate rapid deployment testing on container runtimes without local Maven compilation overhead.
  • (2018) ref 6 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Historical community Docker image containing early builds of the Spring Petclinic framework. Used primarily for legacy workshop labs and testing Docker runtime backwards compatibility.
  • (2015) ref 7 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [LEGACY] — One of the oldest legacy Docker images of the Spring PetClinic project. Demonstrates early containerization methodologies using heavy base operating system layers and older Java Virtual Machine (JVM) versions.

NGINX

React Production

Core Orchestration

Workloads

Examples

  • (2022) github.com/AdminTurnedDevOps/kubernetes-examples 755 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A clean, community-curated collection of fundamental manifest configurations. Serves as a useful rapid-lookup repository containing validated yaml schemas for Deployments, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, and persistent volume abstractions.

Foundational (1)

  • (2021) howtoforge.com: How to deploy your first pod on a Kubernetes Cluster [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Foundational technical walkthrough outlining the basic architecture of Pod components. Demystifies core scheduling mechanisms, declaring multi-container environments, configuring volumes, and validating basic cluster reachability for initial workload tests.

Data Engineering (1)

Azure Data Factory

CICD Pipelines (2)

Event Streaming

Change Data Capture

Data Science

Tooling

Data Wrangling

  • (2023) Getting Started with Data Wrangler in VS Code [PYTHON CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — Curator Insight outlines VS Code's visual data preparation extension. Live Grounding shows that Data Wrangler bridges the visual gap in exploratory data analysis (EDA), generating reproducible Python code in Pandas and Polars dialects directly inside Jupyter environments.

Data Storage

Databases

Operators

  • (2021) blog.flant.com: Our experience with Postgres Operator for Kubernetes by Zalando [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Analytical review assessing operational outcomes using Zalando's PostgreSQL Operator in high-throughput environments. Investigates performance metrics, replication latency under Patroni-driven clustering, backup and recovery operations (WAL-G/S3), dynamic volume expansion, and node failure scenarios.

Database and Storage

Stateful Workloads

PostgreSQL

  • (2020) Deploying PostgreSQL in MiniShift/OpenShift 3 [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Guides users through deploying PostgreSQL on Minishift/OpenShift 3, highlighting standard volume mounting processes. Due to the deprecation of both OpenShift 3 and Minishift, modern applications utilize OpenShift Local and PostgreSQL Operator frameworks.

Storage Infrastructure

Persistent Volumes

DevOps

CICD (1)

GitHub Actions (2)

  • (2021) thomasthornton.cloud: If, elseif or else in GitHub Actions [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — This architectural guide details the execution of complex conditional routing syntax (if-elif-else) within GitHub Actions workflows. It highlights the evaluation patterns of workflow-level expressions, env-context variables, and pipeline optimization mechanics.

CICD Platforms

Jenkins (1)

Azure DevOps Integration
  • (2020) youtube: CI CD Pipeline Using Jenkins | Continuous Integration and Deployment using Azure Devops | K21Academy [N/A CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Curator Insight highlights this video tutorial as a walkthrough for establishing baseline CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins alongside Azure DevOps. Live Grounding indicates that while Jenkins remains prevalent for legacy enterprise systems, modern engineering in 2026 has transitioned toward cloud-native GitOps paradigms. The tutorial provides foundational knowledge on orchestrating build-test-deploy cycles across heterogeneous cloud landscapes.
Docker Containerization
  • (2020) liatrio.com: building with docker using jenkins pipelines [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight highlights the methodologies for assembling and building container images from within a Jenkins declarative pipeline execution block. Live Grounding indicates that using modern agent strategies (such as Kaniko or podman) has superseded dind (Docker in Docker) configurations to secure enterprise clusters. This post offers foundational Docker container pipeline strategies.
  • (2018) github.com/arun-gupta/docker-jenkins-pipeline: Docker + Java + Jenkins Pipeline [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight structures this repository around running Docker-integrated Java application compilation inside Jenkins Pipelines. Live Grounding shows that mounting the Docker socket inside Jenkins agents remains a common albeit security-sensitive approach. It serves as a historical and practical reference for building containerized Java workloads using declarative pipelines.
GitHub Integration
  • (2020) towardsdatascience.com: Create your first CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and GitHub [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight identifies this article as a starter guide for constructing initial CI/CD pipelines bridging GitHub with a Jenkins instance. Live Grounding indicates it relies on standard webhook configurations and SSH deployment keys. This resource serves as an educational baseline for engineers learning automated testing integration.
Modular Pipeline Library
  • (2021) ==griddynamics/mpl== 165 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Curator Insight presents the Modular Pipeline Library (MPL) from Grid Dynamics as a tool for creating clean, maintainable Jenkins pipelines. Live Grounding confirms that MPL significantly reduces Groovy boilerplate by introducing modular execution configurations and reusable testing frameworks. This represents an exceptionally scalable design pattern for large-scale enterprise environments.
  • (2021) youtube: Modular Pipeline Library: 4. Petclinic Pipeline 🌟 [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight highlights this video showcase mapping the Modular Pipeline Library (MPL) against a real-world Petclinic continuous integration execution flow. Live Grounding validates that illustrating modular configuration structures gives developers a tangible example of pipeline inheritance. This pattern minimizes repetitive pipeline coding efforts across diverse teams.
Multibranch Pipelines
  • (2023) lambdatest.com: How To Create Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline 🌟 [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight details this guide as a step-by-step approach to configuring Jenkins Multibranch Pipelines for automated branch detection. Live Grounding emphasizes that Multibranch setups are highly robust for complex git workflows, automatically provisioning pipeline branches. This architectural pattern prevents manual job pollution and ensures consistent integration testing across feature branches.
Spring Petclinic Pipeline
  • (2020) deors/deors-demos-petclinic jenkinsfile [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight details a functional Jenkinsfile built specifically to build and compile the Spring Petclinic application. Live Grounding illustrates how multi-stage Docker builds can be integrated cleanly within a declarative Jenkins template to produce production-ready container images. It is a highly practical execution reference.

Cloud Native CICD

GitLab Integration

Kubernetes Native Setup
  • (2020) piotrminkowski.com: GitLab CI/CD on Kubernetes [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight features this comprehensive guide for establishing GitLab CI/CD pipelines running directly inside Kubernetes. Live Grounding reveals GitLab's Kubernetes runners are incredibly popular due to their low overhead and high-density container scheduling. It represents an excellent alternative architecture to Jenkins.

Jenkins X

AWS EKS Integration
  • (2021) Modernize Your CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins X with Amazon EKS [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight shares an AWS APN blog focusing on modernizing pipelines using Jenkins X with Amazon EKS. Live Grounding clarifies that Jenkins X differs entirely from classic Jenkins, utilizing Tekton, GitOps, and Kubernetes-native configurations under the hood. It acts as an instructional benchmark for organizations moving toward declarative development environments.

Continuous Delivery

Infrastructure Provisioning

Crossplane Spinnaker Integration
  • (2021) amazon.com: Declarative provisioning of AWS resources with Spinnaker and Crossplane [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight showcases the declarative provisioning of AWS infrastructure using Spinnaker unified with Crossplane. Live Grounding shows that combining Crossplane's Kubernetes Control Plane model with Spinnaker's application pipelines represents an advanced platform engineering paradigm. This enables application developers to spin up dependencies dynamically without custom script hooks.

Spinnaker Setup

Git Integration
  • (2022) armory.io: Git Pull Support in Spinnaker [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight addresses configuring Git pull trigger functionality inside Spinnaker. Live Grounding confirms that enabling automated repository monitoring allows Spinnaker to initiate targeted application pipelines immediately upon commit detection. This establishes the prerequisite feedback loop necessary for true continuous delivery.
Kubernetes Deployment Models
  • (2020) wardviaene/advanced-kubernetes-course/spinnaker 🌟 [SHELL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight points to a companion repository for an advanced Kubernetes Spinnaker course. Live Grounding emphasizes its utility in demonstrating advanced deployment strategies (such as blue-green and canary analysis) directly inside Kubernetes clusters using Spinnaker's pipeline GUI. It remains a reliable hands-on learning lab.
  • (2020) imperialwicket/spinnaker-demo [HCL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight presents this repository as a demo application configuration designed to show basic pipeline execution within Spinnaker. Live Grounding highlights that configuring Spinnaker's cloud drivers and halyard configurations is notoriously challenging, and this repo provides valuable baseline configurations to bypass common initial setup hurdles.
Kubernetes Native Deployment
  • (2019) hackernoon: Using Spinnaker with Kubernetes for CI/CD [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight outlines utilizing Spinnaker's cloud native engine as an external continuous delivery pipeline for Kubernetes applications. Live Grounding validates that separating build execution (CI) from application delivery (CD) using a dedicated tool like Spinnaker prevents pipeline scaling bottlenecks. This pattern decouples deployment safety from runner nodes.
Orchestration Concepts
  • (2019) codeburst.io: Spinnaker by Example: Part 1 [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight targets the first installment of a practical multi-part series exploring foundational Spinnaker patterns. Live Grounding points to this series as a highly detailed breakdown of pipelines, stages, and execution models. It is highly recommended for understanding Spinnaker's state machine execution logic.
  • (2019) codeburst.io: Spinnaker by Example: Part 2 [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight covers the second installment of 'Spinnaker by Example', shifting focus toward manual judgements and validation triggers. Live Grounding confirms that incorporating human gates into automated delivery pathways is crucial for enterprise governance. The examples remain valuable for compliance-focused teams.
  • (2019) codeburst.io: Spinnaker by Example: Part 3 [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight details the third installment of the series, showing advanced stage configurations and automated rollback procedures. Live Grounding validates that automated rollback on application health degradation is Spinnaker's premier capability. This design pattern minimizes production downtime during problematic deployments.
Orchestration Engines
  • (2022) Demo/Evaluation Installations [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [LEGACY] — Curator Insight covers the official installation and evaluation setup parameters for Spinnaker. Live Grounding shows Spinnaker remains a highly sophisticated CD platform designed for multi-cloud deployments, though its complex architecture makes it less popular for lightweight Kubernetes setups compared to modern GitOps tools. It is best suited for legacy VM and complex cluster canary rollouts.

Environment Management

SDKMAN (1)

  • (2026) ==SdkMan== 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The homepage for SDKMAN!, a command-line tool designed to manage parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits, with a strong focus on the JVM ecosystem. Live Grounding confirms it as the definitive tool for local environments, facilitating zero-friction switches between different Java, Maven, Gradle, and Scala runtimes.

Infrastructure as Code

Jenkins Configuration as Code

Docker Hook Scripts
  • (2021) ==Demo of Jenkins Configuration-As-Code with Docker and Groovy Hook Scripts (java11-support branch) 🌟🌟== 173 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Curator Insight presents this demo of Jenkins Configuration-as-Code (JCasC) utilizing Docker and Groovy hook scripts. Live Grounding confirms JCasC has revolutionized Jenkins operations by defining configurations within declarative YAML. The inclusion of Java 11 support hooks ensures robust security and plug-in stability in enterprise automation environments.
Kubernetes Native Setup (1)
  • (2021) Jenkins Configuration as Code on Kubernetes 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight highlights this Nubenetes demo as a primary method for running JCasC on Kubernetes. Live Grounding confirms its effectiveness in eradicating persistent storage drift by configuring dynamic build agents via YAML definitions. This serves as an outstanding baseline architecture for cloud-native Jenkins execution environments.
  • (2020) Configuration as Code of Jenkins (for Kubernetes) 🌟🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight points to this resource for implementing Jenkins Configuration as Code on Kubernetes. Live Grounding shows that by mapping JCasC YAML onto Kubernetes ConfigMaps, administrators can fully decouple configuration state from ephemeral container lifecycles. This practice mitigates drift and enables rapid restoration in disaster recovery scenarios.

Jenkins JobDSL

Freestyle Migration
  • (2020) Meetup event: From Freestyle jobs to Pipeline, with JobDSL [GROOVY CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Curator Insight hosts a comprehensive migration strategy moving legacy manual Freestyle jobs to programmatic JobDSL configurations. Live Grounding indicates that transitioning to JobDSL represents a crucial step toward fully declarative pipelines. The repository outlines reproducible seed jobs that dynamically provision child pipelines with minimal manual intervention.

Kubernetes Integration

AWS EKS (1)

Jenkins Pipelines (1)
  • (2021) youtube: How to set up AWS Kubernetes Jenkins pipeline [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight presents this video guide as a roadmap to deploying and running Jenkins pipelines on AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters. Live Grounding highlights the use of IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to dynamically authorize cloud resource creation directly from Jenkins pods. This pattern avoids insecure long-lived static AWS access credentials.

Observability

Metrics Collection

Grafana InfluxDB Integration
  • (2020) Mostrando resultados de Jenkins en Grafana mediante InfluxDB 🌟 [SPANISH CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [LEGACY] — Curator Insight details a pipeline monitoring design pattern utilizing InfluxDB and Grafana to visualize Jenkins build metrics and durations. Live Grounding highlights that rendering historical telemetry is crucial for detecting performance regressions in CI/CD runner pools. While OpenTelemetry is standardizing in 2026, the legacy InfluxDB exporter remains heavily deployed.

Pipeline Execution Engine

Groovy CPS

Continuation Passing Style
  • (2021) ==Continuation Passing Style (CPS)== 95 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Curator Insight introduces the underlying Continuation Passing Style (CPS) engine used for executing asynchronous Groovy scripts in Jenkins pipelines. Live Grounding reveals that understanding CPS is critical for debugging serialization errors during master restarts. This technical library ensures execution state can survive controller crashes and resume safely.
JobDSL API Reference
  • (2022) Defines a Groovy CPS DSL definition: pipelineJob definition cps script [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight presents an aggregative documentation path detailing Groovy CPS execution layouts, pipeline migrations, and auxiliary utility plugins. Live Grounding asserts that despite modern cloud-native shifts, these JobDSL APIs and diagnostic tools (like the Plugin Installation Manager) form the backbone of highly reliable enterprise environments. It provides essential guidelines for maintaining complex pipelines.

DevOps and CICD

AWS EKS (2)

CodePipeline

  • (2024) stacksimplify.com: DevOps with AWS CodePipeline on AWS EKS [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Thorough technical learning guide configuring CI/CD pipelines targeting AWS EKS. Integrates AWS native tools like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline with modern container orchestration standards.

AWS Infrastructure

DevOps Guides

  • (2025) ==AdminTurnedDevOps/DevOps-The-Hard-Way-AWS== 2420 [HCL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A comprehensive learning curriculum covering real-world cloud operations on AWS. Hands-on modules include terraforming network segments, setting up pipelines, security scanning, and establishing resilient monitoring.

Azure DevOps

Build Automation (1)

  • (2024) lambdatest.com: How To Build a CI/CD Pipeline In Azure DevOps ? [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Step-by-step introduction guide detailing how to construct and validate pipelines within Azure DevOps Services. Addresses multi-stage environments, secure service connection creation, and automated test suite execution.

Infrastructure Governance

  • (2022) Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source [C# CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Announcement highlighting the open-sourcing of the Azure DevOps Demo Generator engine. Allows infrastructure teams to package, distribute, and automatically spin up fully populated Azure DevOps project spaces.

Onboarding Engine

YAML Pipelines

  • (2024) docs.microsoft.com: Create a build pipeline with Azure Pipelines [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official Microsoft learning path focusing on declaring Azure Pipelines build logic using YAML configurations. Covers caching mechanisms, parallel task execution strategies, and code analysis plugin integrations.

Continuous Delivery (1)

Docker Images

  • (2020) ref 1 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [LEGACY] — A legacy Docker Hub image combining PetClinic deployment artifacts with Spinnaker and Jenkins orchestration capabilities. Serves as a historical artifact of early multi-cloud continuous delivery pipelines built on top of traditional JVM monoliths.

Jenkins (2)

Kubernetes Agents

  • (2021) pushbuildtestdeploy.com/jenkins-on-kubernetes-building-docker-images 🌟 [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A comprehensive technical guide exploring the orchestration of Jenkins agents inside Kubernetes. Illustrates how to dynamically provision agent pods to build and push Docker images using secure mechanisms like Kaniko or Docker-in-Docker (DinD).

Pipeline-as-Code

  • (2017) github.com/kohsuke/petclinic Jenkinsfile [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A historical Jenkinsfile configuration by Kohsuke Kawaguchi showcasing early Declarative Pipeline patterns for Java projects. Illustrates stage definitions, testing cycles, and artifact archival within a self-hosted Jenkins master node environment.

DevOps and Platform Engineering

Infrastructure Automation

Academic Materials

  • (2022) jose-r-lopez/SSI_Materials 44 [YAML/VAGRANTFILE CONTENT] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A structured repository containing laboratory manuals, automation scripts, and server-provisioning blueprints. Optimized for teaching systems administration and automation using Ansible and Vagrant. (Live Grounding: Excellent academic/foundational resource for mapping traditional configurations to automated workflows).

Interview Preparation

Reference Guides

  • (2026) ==bregman-arie/devops-exercises 🌟== 82758 [PYTHON/YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [GUIDE] — A massive curated repository containing thousands of questions, answers, and hands-on exercises covering Linux, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, and system design. (Live Grounding: With over 82k stars, it stands in 2026 as the preeminent resource for preparing systems engineers and validating platform architecture skills).

Learning Resources (1)

Methodologies

  • (2024) DEVOPS Library [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A comprehensive portal offering structured DevOps lessons, covering CI/CD pipelines, configuration management (Ansible, Chef), infrastructure automation, and container orchestrations. (Live Grounding: Provides foundational patterns useful for junior-to-mid level engineers to grasp traditional infrastructure transition to cloud-native paradigms).

Project Blueprints

Infrastructure Showcase

  • (2021) yankils/Simple-DevOps-Project [SHELL/DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A practical demonstration codebase combining core DevOps components, including automated provisioning scripts and simple pipeline files, to launch a basic application stack. Designed for educational labs. (Live Grounding: Good for foundational learning, though not suited for enterprise-scale zero-trust environments).

DevOps Philosophy

Software Engineering

No Code Movement

  • (2020) ==github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode== 65387 [N/A CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Kelsey Hightower's legendary satirical repository highlighting that the best way to write secure, bug-free, and highly maintainable software is by writing 'no code' at all. Highly popular and philosophically beloved in the cloud-native ecosystem.

DevSecOps and Automation

End-to-End Pipelines

Multi-Version Deployments

Jenkins-based CI-CD

AWS and Jenkins

Jenkins Architecture

  • (2021) ==cloudogu/jenkinsfiles 🌟🌟🌟== 299 [GROOVY CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A comprehensive repository of production-ready Jenkinsfiles designed for modern enterprise software lifecycles. Offers reusable build scripts, container integration routines, and test suite automation loops.
  • (2021) devopscube.com: How to Setup Jenkins Build Agents on Kubernetes Cluster 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Provides an architectural step-by-step setup of self-scaling Jenkins Build Agents using the Kubernetes Jenkins plugin. Configures persistent volumes and resource constraints for ephemeral executors.
  • (2020) piotrminkowski.com: Continuous Integration with Jenkins on Kubernetes 🌟 [GROOVY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Details executing dynamically provisioned Jenkins agent pods inside a target Kubernetes cluster. Explores mounting credentials, executing parallel pipeline workloads, and cleanup phases to optimize compute budgets.

Jenkins Basics

Jenkins Shared Libraries

  • (2020) github.com/monodot/pipeline-library-demo 🌟 [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Reference repository demonstrating the architectural setup of reusable Jenkins Shared Libraries. Emphasizes centralizing redundant tasks (like Slack messaging and build wrappers) to keep multi-repo setups clean.

Mobile Workflows

DevSecOps and IDEs

Eclipse Che

Cloud IDE Templates

  • (2024) github.com/che-samples [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official template repository containing devfile configurations and cloud-native project workspace definitions for Eclipse Che. Accelerates development setup by declaring containers, tools, and runtimes as code.

Google Cloud Code

Developer Experience

  • (2024) ==github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-code-samples 🌟== 437 [GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Curated templates and setup workflows targeting GCP's Cloud Code extension. Helps developers structure containerized services locally before auto-deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Enterprise Templates

Quality Assurance

Azure Cloud Testing

  • (2024) ==github.com/microsoft: Contoso Traders - Cloud testing tools demo app== 168 [TYPESCRIPT CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A comprehensive, multi-platform microservices demonstration application showcasing Azure cloud testing solutions. Features Playwright end-to-end tests, load testing scenarios, and automated regression validations.

Developer Experience (1)

Inner Loop Development

Local Tooling

  • (2023) ==Azure/Draft 🌟== 642 [GO CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Azure Draft simplifies early-stage developer onboarding onto Kubernetes. By scanning source code directories, it automatically generates containerization assets including Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and deployment workflows.

Developer Tools (1)

Quarkus CLI

Local Development (3)

  • (2020) aalmiray/q-cli 11 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An early community command-line interface helper for bootstrapping and managing Quarkus projects. While the official Quarkus CLI eventually integrated these capabilities, this repository represents a pivotal step in Quarkus DX history.

Education

Certification

CKAD

  • (2020) Kubernetes CKAD Example Exam Questions Practical Challenge Series [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A high-yield challenge series tailored for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. Focuses on masterclass proficiency in fast imperative CLI commands, multi-container configurations, config-injection, and network troubleshooting techniques.

Enterprise Architecture

Business Process Management

RHPAM (1)

  • (2020) gitlab.com: Red Hat Process Automation Manager - Signal Marketing Demo [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A demonstration application built on Red Hat Process Automation Manager (RHPAM) modeling signal marketing workflows. Integrates Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine features, showcasing declarative state orchestration within microservice platforms.

Enterprise Integration

SAP Cloud Integration

Azure Blob Storage

Event-Driven Architectures

Cloud-Native Java (2)

Kafka with Spring Boot

Go and CQRS

gRPC Microservices

Observability and Diagnostics

Kafka at Scale

  • (2022) codeopinion.com: Troubleshooting Kafka with 2000 Microservices [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A heavy-duty post-mortem and diagnostics reference analyzing event-driven topologies operating thousands of microservices. Addresses cluster starvation, schema registration bottlenecks, consumer lag detection, and the architectural overhead of massive multi-tenancy.

Realtime Streams

FastAPI and Ably

Serverless Java (1)

Quarkus with Kafka

  • (2021) piomin/sample-quarkus-serverless-kafka [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A reference implementation of reactive serverless pipelines using Quarkus, Knative, and Apache Kafka. Illustrates sub-second cold starts, reactive stream processing (using SmallRye Reactive Messaging), and optimized containerization tailored for Kubernetes native eventing.

Extensibility

Admission Controllers

JVM Configurations

  • (2020) nfrankel/jvm-controller [KOTLIN CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Demonstrates building a custom Java Virtual Machine (JVM) admission controller. Programmatically dynamically intercepts Pod specifications inside a validating or mutating webhook to inject appropriate runtime flags (such as JVM memory heap ergonomics) aligned with CPU and RAM resource limits.

Event-Driven (1)

Webhooks

  • (2021) webhooks.app [GO CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Utility software engineered to facilitate fast interception, logging, inspection, and local validation of webhooks. Proves useful when debugging live Kubernetes Mutating Webhook Admission Controllers or debugging automated external event triggers.

GitOps (2)

Continuous Deployment

Flux v2

  • (2023) flux2-kustomize-helm-example 🌟 1268 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The canonical Flux v2 reference architecture. Provides production-tested blueprints for structuring multi-environment repositories, configuring Kustomize hierarchies, packaging Helm releases, and enforcing namespace isolation patterns.

OpenShift (1)

Enterprise Dev

  • (2021) youtube: GitOps Guide to the Galaxy (Ep 12): Flux On OpenShift [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Video guide examining GitOps operations using Flux v2 inside Red Hat OpenShift. Discusses enterprise concerns such as overcoming strict Security Context Constraints (SCC) and integrating with corporate OAuth configurations.

GitOps and Declarative Git

Developer Platforms (1)

GitHub Actions (3)

  • (2021) shipa.io: GitOps in Kubernetes, the easy waywith GitHub Actions and Shipa [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Explores combining the ease of GitHub Actions workflows with Shipa's application management plane to implement secure GitOps pipelines. (Live Grounding: Proves early efforts in platform engineering to bridge continuous integration directly into abstract application runtimes).

Enterprise GitOps

Anthos

  • (2022) youtube.com: Cloud Native GitOps with Anthos and JFrog Artifactory [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A collaborative session displaying how Anthos Config Management dynamically orchestrates multi-cluster topologies in tandem with JFrog Artifactory as a secure, enterprise container registry. (Live Grounding: Portrays the classic zero-trust artifact distribution pattern used in modern multi-cloud platform deployments).

GitOps Tools

Flux and Helm

Governance and Security

Platform Comparisons

OpenShift vs Kubernetes

Policy Enforcement (1)

OPA Gatekeeper

  • (2021) opensource.com: Implement governance on your Kubernetes cluster [YAML / REGO CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Analyzes the installation and lifecycle management of OPA Gatekeeper inside Kubernetes. Demonstrates how to design ConstraintTemplates and Constraints to programmatically enforce organizational governance rules, highlighting its capability to validate, mutate, and deny container creation requests before deployment execution.

Hybrid Cloud Platforms

Anthos (1)

Multi-Cluster Mesh

  • (2022) Tutorial: Connect Amazon EKS and Azure AKS Clusters with Google Anthos [MARKDOWN CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Multi-cloud tutorial explaining cluster federation workflows using Google Anthos. Coordinates the management, communication policies, and service mesh definitions across Amazon EKS and Microsoft Azure AKS clusters.

OpenShift (2)

Developer Workspaces

  • (2024) OpenShift.io Samples 🌟🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Enterprise cloud developer templates optimized for Red Hat OpenShift Workspaces (Eclipse Che). Facilitates the rapid provisioning of secure, IDE-integrated environments for compiling and deploying cloud-native workloads.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Multi-Cloud Architectures

Anthos with EKS

  • (2020) Tutorial: Deploy Anthos Apps from GCP Marketplace into Amazon EKS Cluster [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Demonstrates cross-cloud portability by deploying Google Cloud Marketplace containerized applications directly into Amazon EKS clusters via Anthos. Discusses multi-cloud identity mappings, ingress controller configurations, and registration procedures required to bridge GCP's service ecosystem into AWS workloads.

Multi-Cluster GitOps (1)

Anthos Config Management

  • (2020) Tutorial: GitOps in Multicluster Environments with Anthos Config Management [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A comprehensive guide on establishing declarative configuration management in multi-cluster environments using Anthos Config Management (ACM). The tutorial details Git-to-cluster synchronization protocols, security policies via Config Controller, and cluster-state reconciliation mechanisms, representing a stable paradigm for enterprise hybrid-cloud control planes.

Infrastructure (1)

Artifact Management

Nexus3 Deployment

Kubernetes Helm Setup
  • (2021) Proof of Concept: Nexus3 Chart configuration on Kubernetes [SMARTY CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight presents this proof-of-concept Nexus3 Helm chart deployment pattern on Kubernetes. Live Grounding confirms that hosting a dedicated private repository manager inside the cluster remains critical for sovereign enterprise setups. The manifest coordinates dynamic ingress rules and persistent storage volume allocations.

Edge Computing

Minimalist Clusters

  • (2020) todaywasawesome/atomic-cluster: The Atomic Cluster [SHELL CONTENT] [EMERGING] — An experimental framework built to explore deployment lifecycles of highly compact, ephemeral Kubernetes engines at the edge. Optimizes cluster-state storage engine footprints and reduces node bootstrapping overhead for edge nodes and rapid local testing setups.

Production Hardening

Examples (1)

  • (2022) github.com/AdminTurnedDevOps/kubernetes-in-production-examples 79 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Advanced enterprise-readiness blueprint repository. Highlights essential security context layers, proper resource constraint mechanisms (CPU/Memory requests and limits), NetworkPolicies, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, and liveness/readiness probe best practices for production deployments.

Provisioning (2)

High Availability (1)

Stateful Applications

Mail Services

  • (2021) kruyt.org: Running a mailserver in Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Practical deployment architectural guide detailing the orchestration of high-availability mail servers on Kubernetes. Analyzes the complexities of handling persistent storage for mail stores (via PV/PVC), dynamic IMAP/SMTP routing setups, and the crucial network security protocols (DKIM, SPF, DMARC) required to maintain high IP reputation inside cloud infrastructures.

Infrastructure and DevOps

CI-CD Concepts

Jenkins Tutorials

  • (2020) wardviaene/jenkins-course [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly practical repository containing configuration examples, scripts, and multi-stage pipeline templates for various programming languages. Designed to serve as hands-on exercises for developers studying infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code fundamentals.

Shared Libraries

Production Blueprints

  • (2021) Pipeline Global Library for ci.jenkins.io [GROOVY CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The real-world production Global Shared Pipeline Library utilized by the official Jenkins infrastructure project (ci.jenkins.io). Serves as an excellent architectural blueprint of highly robust, scalable, and modular pipeline development.

Infrastructure and Operations

Cost Optimization and Metering

Metering Operator

  • (2020) Writing Customized Reports Using Metering Operator [SQL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [LEGACY] — Explores authoring custom resource and cost allocation reports using the OpenShift Metering Operator. Note: The Metering Operator has since been deprecated in favor of OpenShift Cost Management.

Enterprise Cluster Management

Ansible and ACM

  • (2021) redhat.com: ACM Ansible Integration Overview [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explores integrations bridging Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) with Ansible Automation Platform. Automates physical or non-Kubernetes resource tasks at critical points in cluster lifecycles.

OKD Community Platform

Red Hat ACM

  • (2020) Advanced Cluster Management Demos [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A curated playlist of technical capabilities inside Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM), focusing on policy enforcement, lifecycle orchestration, and multi-cluster visualization.

Ingress and Routing

Argo CD Deployment

Observability and Service Mesh

Grafana and ACM

OpenShift ServiceMesh

  • (2021) Monitoring Services like an SRE in OpenShift ServiceMesh [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Unpacks Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) monitoring patterns using OpenShift Service Mesh. Synthesizes Istio, Kiali, and Prometheus telemetry to isolate performance bottlenecks and measure Golden Signals.

Infrastructure and Platform

Autoscaling

Event-Driven Scaling

  • (2021) tomd.xyz: Event-driven integration on Kubernetes with Camel & KEDA 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Demonstrates how to run Apache Camel integration microservices on Kubernetes, leveraging KEDA to dynamically scale Camel routes based on incoming message rates. Synthesizes enterprise integration patterns (EIP) with modern cloud-native autoscaling.

Infrastructure as Code (1)

AI-Assisted IaC

AKS and ACR Deployments

Kubernetes Management

Infrastructure Blueprints

  • (2021) StarpTech/k-andy 157 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A consolidated project featuring curated Kubernetes deployment manifests and Helm configurations. Highlights patterns for bootstrapping monitoring stacks, storage drivers, and load-balancer integration with localized container configurations.

OpenShift Virtualization

GitOps VMs

Serverless Deployment

Terraform and AWS Lambda

Terraform

AWS Networking

Azure Security

  • (2023) davidsr.me: Deploy Azure WAF with Terraform and Azure DevOps [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A practical tutorial detailing how to declare Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule sets as Terraform variables. Configures Azure DevOps pipelines for automated validation and execution of the plans.

GCP Provisioning

  • (2023) ==Terraform Automation Demo using Google Cloud Provider== 10 [HCL CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Technical repository containing IaC templates to provision GCP infrastructure via HashiCorp Terraform. Showcases structured folder hierarchies, backend state locks, and resource declarations for VPCs, compute instances, and firewalls.

Terraform Ecosystem

AWS Compute Provisioning

AWS RDS Databases

  • (2022) devopscube.com/terraform-aws-rds [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Details production-grade Terraform configurations for deploying RDS databases. Illustrates high-availability multi-AZ architectures, automated backup retention, integration with AWS Secrets Manager, and proper configuration of private DB subnets.
  • (2021) adamtheautomator.com: How To Build a Database Instance with Terraform and AWS RDS [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A comprehensive operational blueprint for deploying managed relational databases on AWS RDS via Terraform. Demonstrates critical database reliability configurations, security groups, database subnet groups, and encrypted secret management parameters.

AWS S3 Storage

  • (2023) blog.awsfundamentals.com: Using S3 with Terraform [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A structural guide explaining how to declare and maintain AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets using Terraform. Focuses on security defaults, bucket access control lists (ACLs), versioning configurations, and cross-region replication strategies.

Advanced HCL Loopings

Azure Deployments

Beginner Blueprints

  • (2021) github.com/venkateshk111/terraform-beginners-guide 🌟 107 [HCL CONTENT] 🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A structured, accessible community repository offering clear code snippets, common commands, and hands-on scenarios designed to accelerate early learning curves for DevOps engineers adopting HashiCorp Terraform.

EKS and IAM Security

  • (2021) brennerm.github.io: Setting up an EKS cluster with IAM/IRSA integration [HCL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A critical security tutorial detailing the configuration of IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) on AWS EKS using Terraform. Walks through building OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers and defining strict, least-privilege IAM policies directly mapped to Kubernetes ServiceAccounts.

Fundamental Syntaxes

  • (2021) https://github.com/chenjd/terraform-101 🌟 [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly practical beginner-level code index focusing on Terraform basics, state management, module syntax, and provider declarations for deploying cloud infrastructure safely.

Kubernetes Provider

  • (2020) opensource.com: A guide to Terraform for Kubernetes beginners [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explains how to use HashiCorp Terraform to directly manage Kubernetes resources and objects. Highlights the trade-offs of using Terraform versus Helm/kubectl for standard resource templating, state tracking, and lifecycle operations.

Learning Platforms

  • (2022) terraform.collabnix.com [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — A collaborative, multi-step reference hub designed to systematically introduce DevOps engineers to Terraform. Covers declarative state files, modular organization, provider configurations, and deployment strategies across multiple hyper-scale cloud providers.

Infrastructure as Code and CI-CD

CI-CD Pipelines (1)

Concourse CI

  • (2020) thoughtworks.com: Modernizing your build pipelines with Concourse CI 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [LEGACY] — Analyzes the migration patterns from Jenkins or legacy orchestrators to Concourse CI, highlighting Concourse's declarative, stateless, container-first pipeline design. (Live Grounding: Concourse CI, though revolutionary for its resource-based declarative architecture, has largely been superseded in 2026 by GitOps controllers like Argo CD and cloud-native pipeline runners like GitHub Actions).

Configuration Management

Ansible

  • (2021) redhat.com: Build a lab in 36 seconds with Ansible [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Highlights the extreme velocity benefits of programmatic infrastructure by spinning up a full VM-based training lab environment inside of 36 seconds using Ansible automation. (Live Grounding: Shows how standardized playbooks reduce system bootstrap overhead to near zero).

Ansible Galaxy

  • (2025) galaxy.ansible.com/ansible/product_demos 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The official catalog of production-ready Ansible product demos hosted on Ansible Galaxy. Contains modular roles and collections designed to streamline enterprise cloud deployments. (Live Grounding: Serves as a vital asset directory for platform engineering teams utilizing Ansible Automation Platform).

Ansible Inventory

Ansible Tower

  • (2023) Red Hat Ansible Tower - Workshop and Demo 127 [YAML/PYTHON CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟 [LEGACY] — A specialized automation toolkit for Red Hat Ansible Tower/AWX focused on network architectures. Emphasizes role-based access controls, standardized workflow templates, and central log telemetry. (Live Grounding: Highlights critical patterns for bringing deterministic software-defined networking concepts to legacy environments).

Ansible Workshops

  • (2025) ansible.github.io/workshops/demos : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Workshops [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official Red Hat Ansible workshops repository, highlighting hands-on scenarios for cloud provisioning, configuration management, network automation, and security playbooks. (Live Grounding: Serves as the authoritative source for enterprise teams to upskill in Ansible Automation Platform strategies).

Developer Platforms (2)

CI-CD Pipelines (2)

  • (2021) shipa.io: A Developer focused CI/CD pipeline for Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Outlines designing application-centric CI/CD pipelines that leverage developer platform layers to remove raw Kubernetes configuration friction. (Live Grounding: Highlights the evolving landscape of platform engineering where developers focus on code deliverables while security/infrastructure is handled declaratively by platforms).

GitOps and Declarative Git (1)

Ansible and Helm

  • (2020) opensource.com: Build a Kubernetes Minecraft server with Ansible's Helm modules [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Demonstrates utilizing Ansible's native Helm modules to declare and manage deployments within a Kubernetes cluster, illustrated by spinning up a stateful Minecraft server instance. (Live Grounding: Highlights the cross-functional utility of leveraging Ansible playbooks to drive Kubernetes native packaging models).

Java Cloud Native

Spring Cloud (1)

Kubernetes Integration (1)

  • (2026) ==github: Spring Cloud Kubernetes 🌟== 3534 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A specialized integration library that allows Spring Cloud applications to run transparently on Kubernetes. It maps Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets to Spring's Environment, and translates discovery mechanisms to native Kubernetes endpoints. It bridges the gap between Cloud Native infrastructure patterns and Java application logic.

Kubernetes Tools

General Reference

Local Development (4)

Legacy Cluster Tools

Minishift

  • (2020) opensource.com: Set up Minishift and run Jenkins on Linux [SHELL CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Step-by-step guide outlining how to install Minishift on Linux and run a Jenkins instance inside it. This provides baseline knowledge of legacy platforms, but modern architectures should use OpenShift Local.

Red Hat OpenShift Local

Installation

Process Automation (1)

  • (2020) CodeReady Containers - Red Hat Decision Manager Install Demo [SHELL CONTENT] [LEGACY] — An automated installation demo for launching Red Hat Decision Manager on CodeReady Containers (CRC). While valuable for understanding legacy deployment footprints, modern architectures replace CRC with Red Hat OpenShift Local and migrate Decision Manager patterns onto newer cloud-native rule engines.
  • (2020) schabell.org: CodeReady Containers - Building a Cloud-Native Human Resources Process [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Details local development of a cloud-native Human Resources workflow using CodeReady Containers. Explains process containerization concepts on single-node platforms, though modern flows favor OpenShift Local frameworks.

Networking

Ingress

Nginx

  • (2021) matthewpalmer.net: Kubernetes Ingress with Nginx Example 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Step-by-step architectural breakdown of implementing an NGINX Ingress Controller to manage external-to-internal cluster routing. Synthesizes key routing constructs, TLS termination setups via cert-manager, virtual hosting paths, and session affinity configurations vital for modern production topologies.

Multicluster

eBPF

  • (2021) piotrminkowski.com: Kubernetes Multicluster with Kind and Cilium [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — In-depth guide constructing a multi-cluster networking topology utilizing Kind and Cilium's eBPF-driven data plane. Outlines how to leverage ClusterMesh to enable secure, low-latency, and high-performance cross-cluster Pod-to-Pod communication without reliance on heavyweight external gateway mechanisms.

Security (1)

Recipes

  • (2021) ==ahmetb/kubernetes-network-policy-recipes 🌟== 6144 [YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — The premier open-source repository for reusable NetworkPolicy templates. Provides validated configuration files to handle common cloud-native security patterns.

eBPF (1)

Calico

Observability (1)

Microservices Telemetry

Grafana Stack

  • (2022) grafana.com: How Istio, Tempo, and Loki speed up debugging for microservices [N/A CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — Details how to configure the unified Grafana observability stack (Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Istio for mesh networking) to accelerate troubleshooting in microservices. Focuses on setting up automatic correlation IDs to jump from logs to tracing traces instantly.

Monitoring

Message Brokers

  • (2020) piotrminkowski.com: RabbitMQ Monitoring on Kubernetes [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Technical tutorial focused on architecting a comprehensive RabbitMQ monitoring pipeline within Kubernetes. Illustrates how to configure Prometheus Operator's custom resources, register dedicated ServiceMonitors, and implement rich Grafana dashboard systems to observe telemetry metrics such as message rates, consumer connections, and disk storage alerts.

OpenTelemetry

Governance

  • (2021) devops.com: Measuring the Progress of the OpenTelemetry Project [NONE CONTENT] [LEGACY] — A historical overview detailing the organizational velocity, community contributions, and consolidation patterns of the CNCF OpenTelemetry project. Synthesizes adoption telemetry and integration roadmaps with legacy APM frameworks.

Reliability Engineering

  • (2022) itnext.io: OpenTelemetry — Understanding SLI and SLO with OpenTelemetry Demo [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An architectural deep-dive evaluating Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) within an active OpenTelemetry distributed microservices demo. Explores Prometheus alerts, collector architecture, and structured telemetry processing.

Troubleshooting

Azure AKS (1)

Google GKE (1)

Observability and Testing (1)

Metrics Monitoring

TPG Monitoring Stack

Orchestration

AKS

Masterclass (1)

  • (2023) github.com/stacksimplify/azure-aks-kubernetes-masterclass 🌟 [HCL CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — A highly comprehensive masterclass repository containing declarative HCL files and manifests to deploy AKS with Azure Disks, Azure Files, Application Gateway ingress, and active Azure AD integration.

Kubernetes (2)

EKS Training

  • (2025) eksworkshop.com [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] [GUIDE] — The canonical AWS EKS workshop framework. Outlines standard cluster orchestration procedures, highlighting network configurations (AWS VPC CNI), identity management (IAM Roles for Service Accounts - IRSA), and modern storage drivers (EBS/EFS CSI).

Kubernetes Security

RKE Best Practices

Platform Architecture

CICD (2)

Legacy Jenkins

  • (2022) ==github - using jenkins pipelines with OKD== 8658 [GROOVY CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [LEGACY] — Repository detailing baseline code configurations, sample pipelines, and deployment manifests engineered to execute scripted Jenkins procedures inside early versions of the OKD community container platform.

Platform Deployment

Quality Assurance (1)

Static Code Analysis

  • (2020) SonarQube: An OpenShift-focused Docker build of Sonarqube 42 [DOCKERFILE CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A custom Docker build configuration designed to host SonarQube instances on OpenShift. Modern strategies prioritize official Helm charts or certified OpenShift Operator deployments, but this configuration highlights important historical patterns for handling stateful Java applications.

Platform Engineering

Architectural Insights

Ecosystem Tools

  • (2025) Portfolio Architecture Tooling [PYTHON CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — A technical toolset and mapping library designed to programmatically generate clean, unified, and compliant architectural diagrams for hybrid cloud deployments. Enables platform teams to model complex networking, storage, and cluster connections cleanly.

Red Hat Ecosystem

  • (2025) ==Portfolio Architecture WorkShops 🌟== [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Comprehensive architectural workshops presenting verified blueprints for complex hybrid cloud systems, retail edge strategies, and AI/ML model deployment operations. It serves as a highly detailed blueprint catalog for modern enterprise architects.

CICD Platforms (1)

Azure DevOps (1)

  • (2021) thomasthornton.cloud: A DevOps journey using Azure DevOps [YAML CONTENT] [CASE STUDY] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A comprehensive retrospective detailing the strategic transition and ongoing journey of adopting Azure DevOps for enterprise platform engineering. The guide explores centralizing pipeline definitions, managing environment gates, optimizing agent pools, and leveraging built-in boards and repositories. It highlights pragmatic challenges and structural lessons learned during real-world migrations to cloud-native delivery workflows.

Custom Controller Patterns

Kubernetes Operators

Developer Experience (2)

Red Hat Ecosystem (1)

  • (2026) ==Developer Sandbox== 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Provides immediate, zero-cost developer access to an active, shared OpenShift cluster environment pre-populated with cloud-native tooling. Eliminates complex infrastructure bootstrapping for developers, letting them deploy containers instantly. In 2026, it is the standard starting sandbox for assessing OpenShift APIs.

Enterprise Kubernetes

OpenShift (3)

  • (2025) rcarrata.com [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Roberto Carratalá's technical blog features deep architectural explorations of OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes setups. It is packed with real-world scenarios covering OAuth integrations, ingress routing configurations, and security hardeners.

GitOps and CI-CD

AWS and Argo CD

  • (2023) mrcloudbook.com: GitOps: Deploying Tetris on EKS Using ArgoCD [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A simplified tutorial mapping out the migration from manual deployments to automated GitOps workflows on AWS EKS using Argo CD. Focuses on setting up repositories, IAM credentials, and declarative reconciliations.

Argo ApplicationSets

  • (2021) blog.argoproj.io: Getting started with ApplicationSets [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Outlines technical use-cases for ApplicationSets in handling massive-scale Kubernetes rollouts, defining templating behaviors, and utilizing multi-source capabilities within modern GitOps workflows.
  • (2020) blog.argoproj.io: Introducing the ApplicationSet Controller for Argo CD [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Unveils the ApplicationSet Controller designed to orchestrate multi-cluster and multi-tenant Argo CD configurations from a single template. Enables automated templating of Kubernetes workloads using Git generators, directory generators, and cluster generators.

Argo CD and OpenShift Pipelines

  • (2021) piotrminkowski.com: Kubernetes CI/CD with Tekton and ArgoCD 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Guides the reader through building a Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipeline using Tekton for compiling, testing, and containerizing Java applications, combined with Argo CD for declarative GitOps delivery.
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: From code to production with OpenShift Pipelines and Argo CD [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Analyzes the deployment pipeline workflow integrating OpenShift Pipelines (based on Tekton) with Argo CD for declarative GitOps continuous delivery. The architecture promotes safe transitions from code repositories to production clusters via containerized build stages and automated resource reconciliation.

Argo CD Basics

  • (2021) opensource.com: Get started with Argo CD 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An introduction to core GitOps architectures using Argo CD. Outlines basic mechanics of reconciliation, syncing Helm charts, and navigating the GUI to verify actual and desired cluster states match.
  • (2020) vzilla.co.uk: GitOps - Getting started with ArgoCD [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Presents an introductory guide to GitOps patterns using Argo CD on Kubernetes. Details installation steps, sync policies, and repo registration to facilitate baseline understanding of Git-declared state control.

Argo CD Plugins

Configuration Rollouts

GitLab Integration (1)

  • (2021) openshift.com: Building GitLab Pipelines on OpenShift [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Details configuring GitLab CI runners inside an OpenShift environment to native execution. Addresses cluster authentication, caching mechanisms, and security contexts when executing pipeline scripts inside restricted Pod environments.

Multi-Cluster GitOps (2)

  • (2021) infracloud.io: Multicluster GitOps with ArgoCD [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Examines architectural choices for orchestrating multi-cluster GitOps setups with Argo CD, focusing on hub-and-spoke topologies versus decentralized controls to manage cluster-level dependencies.
  • (2020) developers.redhat.com: Introduction to Tekton and Argo CD for multicluster development [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explains the synergy between Tekton tasks and Argo CD to drive multi-cluster continuous delivery. Defines the boundaries where Tekton controls cloud-native container builds while Argo CD manages drift resolution across remote target clusters.

Serverless Workflows

Tool Assessment

GitOps and Deployment

Flux Ecosystem

Machine Learning Operations

OpenShift AI

  • (2023) ==OpenShift AI Examples== 25 [PYTHON CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A community collection of machine learning workflows and notebooks deployed on Red Hat OpenShift AI. Details deployment pipelines for distributed training, model serving, and GPU resource slicing.

Security and Compliance (1)

Public Sector

  • (2026) redhatgov.io [ADVANCED LEVEL] [DOCUMENTATION] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — Specialized platform engineering portal with focused guides on locking down OpenShift infrastructure to meet strict military, intelligence, and federal government security benchmarks (DISA STIG, FIPS, NIST). A mandatory reference for architects building air-gapped, zero-trust container setups.

Provisioning (3)

Bootstrapping

Bare Metal

Public Cloud Providers

AWS (1)

Amplify Development

Asset Management

Best Practices

  • (2026) github.com/aws-samples 🌟 [MULTI CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The master organization containing AWS-curated reference architectures, deployment scripts, and code samples. Serves as a vital baseline for implementing multi-account strategies, serverless setups, and security blueprints.

DevOps Demos

  • (2025) github.com/miztiik/AWS-Demos [PYTHON CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A rich repository compiling hundreds of AWS hands-on architecture guides and automated scripts. Spans serverless computing, databases, event routing, and container-based architectural patterns.

Operational Excellence

  • (2025) ==github.com/aws-samples/aws-customer-playbook-framework 🌟== 661 [TYPESCRIPT CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A comprehensive operational framework that helps organizations define, structure, and automate IT playbooks and runbooks on AWS. Enhances incident response protocols and disaster recovery simulations.

Resource Tagging

  • (2023) ==github.com/aws-samples: Guide to Resource Tagging Automation== 55 [PYTHON CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Automated cloud governance solution leveraging AWS Lambda to automatically append standardized metadata tags onto AWS resources. Simplifies enterprise cost allocation and compliance enforcement operations.

Security and WAF

  • (2023) ==github.com/aws-samples/aws-waf-ops-dashboards== 56 [PYTHON CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Contains CloudFormation templates and Athena query scripts to establish centralized dashboards for AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs. Empowers security operations to detect anomalous traffic patterns.

Training Archives

  • (2020) ==github.com/aws-samples/aws-training-demo== 128 [JAVASCRIPT CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] [LEGACY] — Archived AWS training demonstration repository. Grounding verification confirms this repository is formally archived by Amazon, meaning it should be treated purely as an architectural reference rather than a base for production provisioning templates.

GCP

Enterprise Platform

  • (2026) github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform [MULTI CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — The master landing organization for Google Cloud Platform's open-source projects, APIs, and CLI utilities. Holds structural frameworks, SDKs, and enterprise infrastructure design tools.

Quality Assurance (2)

API Testing Automation

Newman Integration

Jenkins Pipelines (2)
  • (2020) LerryAlexander: Postman + Newman API Automated Tests running on a Jenkins' Pipeline 🌟 3 [JAVASCRIPT CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight focuses on running automated Postman test suites through Newman CLI inside a Jenkins Pipeline. Live Grounding confirms this is a standard integration step for end-to-end REST API verification. By surfacing test execution failures in Jenkins console output, teams can safely block regression deployments.

Reference Architectures

Artifact Registries

Docker Images (1)

  • (2020) DockerHub OpenShift Demos [N/A CONTENT] [LEGACY] — Registry hosting pre-built container images optimized for the OpenShiftDemos organization. Though partially legacy due to secure private registry practices, it serves as a valuable public catalog of application runtimes.

Enterprise Demos

Community Repositories

  • (2021) github.com/OpenShiftDemos 🌟 [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A central repository for community-created deployment scenarios and platform showcases on OpenShift. Offers infrastructure engineers access to ready-to-use cluster testing configurations and tool deployments.
  • (2020) github.com/openshiftdemos 🌟 [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — GitHub resource hosting active and archive-state templates designed to showcase enterprise tools on OpenShift. Features simple automation scripts, platform configuration files, and middleware integration recipes.

Red Hat Demo Central

  • (2022) gitlab.com/redhatdemocentral 🌟 [SHELL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A foundational Git ecosystem containing reference architectures, workshop resources, and interactive deployment scenarios for Red Hat's core platforms. Designed for architects needing to spin up reproducible, full-stack configurations on OpenShift and middleware stacks.

Industry Verticals

Healthcare

  • (2022) gitlab.com/redhatdemocentral: Healthcare [ASCIIDOC CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A highly specialized reference architecture covering the integration of healthcare workflows, real-time messaging, and patient record databases on OpenShift. Explains how to reconcile strict data compliance directives (HL7/FHIR) with highly-scalable container orchestrations.

Interactive Learning

OpenShift Labs

  • (2023) github.com/openshift-labs 🌟 [GO / YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — An official repository that runs web-accessible, sandbox-styled instructional courses for OpenShift. Guides engineers through Operator lifecycle development, security tuning, and multi-tenant networking setups.

Resource Portal

Video Tutorials

Cloud PoC

  • (2023) cloud quick POCs [N/A CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A compiled collection of video tutorials and rapid proofs-of-concept demonstrating containerization, multi-tier cloud networking, and infrastructure provisioning patterns across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Security (2)

Admission Control

Go Development (1)

  • (2020) dev.to: Implementing a simple K8s admission controller in Go [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Deep dive into developing custom admission control hooks using Go. Examines the mechanical process of parsing AdmissionReview requests, implementing validation logic, producing secure JSON patches for mutating workflows, and setting up local TLS validation to communicate securely with the Kubernetes API server.

Vulnerabilities

Hacking Labs

  • (2024) The Kubernetes Goat 5674 [GO CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 [ENTERPRISE-STABLE] — The premier interactive security training platform containing an intentionally vulnerable Kubernetes cluster. Designed as an educational sandbox to demonstrate real-world cluster vulnerabilities, RBAC privilege escalations, metadata exposure, and container breakout exploits.

Security and Compliance (2)

Cloud Security Assessments

AWS IAM Exploits

  • (2022) BishopFox/iam-vulnerable 573 [HCL CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] 🌟🌟🌟 [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A crucial hands-on sandbox repository that deploys a library of intentionally weak and misconfigured AWS IAM privilege escalation paths using Terraform. Ideal for security engineers looking to safely simulate and audit IAM security posture.

Security and Governance

Identity and Access

OpenShift GitOps

  • (2021) openshift.com: SSO Integration for the OpenShift GitOps Operator [YAML CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Explores integrating single sign-on (SSO) systems like Keycloak or Red Hat SSO with the OpenShift GitOps (Argo CD) operator. Facilitates role-based access control (RBAC) mappings for secure enterprise deployments.

Platform Security

GitOps Security

Resource Integrity

Secret Management

Argo CD Plugins (1)

Serverless and Knative

Serverless Frameworks

Knative Serving

Knative Tutorial

  • (2023) ==knative-tutorial== 291 [JAVA / YAML CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — A comprehensive repository tutorial focused on Knative. Delivers detailed, practical instructions for implementing Knative Serving, traffic splitting, event brokers, and scale-to-zero configurations.

Serverless Java (2)

Knative Service

  • (2021) piotrminkowski.com: Serverless Java Functions on OpenShift [JAVA CONTENT] [ADVANCED LEVEL] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Focuses on optimizing Java applications for serverless execution using Knative on OpenShift. Explores Spring Boot and Quarkus execution patterns, emphasizing scale-to-zero capabilities and JVM resource management.

Serverless Architectures

AWS Lambda

Java Performance

AWS Serverless

Cloud-Native Demo

  • (2020) github.com/unitypark/aws-serverless-demos [TYPESCRIPT CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A playground containing several serverless infrastructure designs compiled via AWS CDK. Serves as reference implementations for combining DynamoDB, API Gateway, and Lambda.

Knative

Spring Boot (1)

Service Mesh

Consul

Ingress Gateways

  • (2021) consul.io: Ingress Gateways on Kubernetes 🌟 [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Official technical guide showing how to expose microservices secured under Consul Service Mesh to public clients via Consul Ingress Gateways. Directs configurations of ingress routing tables and end-to-end connection integrity.

Local Development (5)

  • (2021) learn.hashicorp.com: Consul Service Discovery and Mesh on Minikube 🌟 [HCL CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — A practical HashiCorp tutorial teaching how to bootstrap and configure Consul Service Mesh inside Minikube. Details transparent proxy routing, catalog synchronization rules, and enforcing secure service-to-service cryptographic identities.

GitOps (3)

Progressive Delivery

Istio

Hands-On

  • (2020) blog.alexellis.io: A bit of Istio before tea-time [YAML CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Accelerated developer tutorial detailing local installations and practical evaluations of the Istio service mesh. Covers microservice configuration injections, sidecar integrations, and foundational egress traffic testing in simple configurations.

Software Development

Microservices (2)

Reference Architecture

Spring Petclinic
  • (2023) ==github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic== 9303 [JAVA CONTENT] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 [DE FACTO STANDARD] — Curator Insight targets the actual source code repository for the Spring Petclinic community project. Live Grounding confirms this project is an invaluable asset across the software industry to demonstrate testing, framework upgrades, Docker containerization, and platform deployment strategies. It serves as the baseline target for countless CI/CD benchmarks.
  • (2022) spring-petclinic.github.io [N/A CONTENT] [DOCUMENTATION] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight highlights the official Spring Petclinic documentation as the premier reference application for modern Java software architectures. Live Grounding confirms its role as a testing bed for showcasing complex microservice interactions, database bindings, and telemetry configuration patterns.
Spring Petclinic Red Hat
  • (2020) github.com/redhat-developer-demos/spring-petclinic 🌟 [JAVA CONTENT] [COMMUNITY-TOOL] — Curator Insight maps out Red Hat's customized developer demo fork of the Spring Petclinic project. Live Grounding indicates this version is heavily optimized for OpenShift deployments, featuring native integration with OpenShift build configs and Kubernetes secrets. It is ideal for illustrating red-hat native cloud development workflows.

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