Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part VIII – creating a helm chart

Our bitcoin controller is more or less complete, and can be deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. However, the deployment process itself is still a bit touchy - we need to deploy secrets, RBAC profiles and the CRD, bring up a pod running the controller and make sure that we grab the right version of the … Continue reading Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part VIII – creating a helm chart →

Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part VII – testing

Kubernetes controllers are tightly integrated with the Kubernetes API - they are invoked if the state of the cluster changes, and they act by invoking the API in turn. This tight dependency turns testing into a challenge, and we need a smart testing strategy to be able to run unit and integration tests efficiently. The … Continue reading Building a bitcoin controller for Kubernetes part VII – testing →