InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Jul 21, 2025Crossplane — Injecting global configurations using EnvironmentConfigContextA response icon1A response icon1
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Sep 6, 2022My Golang Bookshelf — The Amazing, Good, and not recommended!Recently, I was sharing book recommendations on Twitter when discussing Dependency Injection. The thread was a bit tongue in cheek, but it…A response icon3A response icon3
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 29, 2022Observations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the fifth and final part of this blog series, I share my observations in the cloud resource brokering space (deploying Cloud resources…A response icon1A response icon1
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 27, 2022Observations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the fourth part of this blog series, I share my observations in the policy enforcement space.
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 22, 2022Observations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the third part of this blog series, I share my observations regarding the use of GitOps to manage platform components and workloads…A response icon1A response icon1
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 19, 2022Keeping Software Dependencies Up to Date with DependabotLately, I’ve picked up a side project that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, replace an application I wrote in Perl to Golang (yeah…
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 19, 2022Observations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…In the second part of this blog series, share my observations regarding the use of workload identities and how to manage secrets based on…A response icon2A response icon2
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Aug 15, 2022Observations and thoughts after building 3 kubernetes platforms in Financial Services Industry —…Last week, I completed another consulting engagement in the Financial Services / Banking industry here in Canada. This wrapped up my 3rd…A response icon1A response icon1
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Jul 18, 2022Istio — Impacts of namespace sameness with traffic management in a Multi-Cluster environmentIn a recent blog, I covered how global MeshConfig settings can be configured in Anthos Service Mesh. Now it is time to talk about the…
InITNEXTbyPatrick Picard·Jul 18, 2022Anthos Service Mesh — Configuring global settingsRecently, as I worked through an issue with Service Discovery in a multi-cluster setup with a Google managed control plane, I came with…