by Bill Maxwell | Nov 8, 2022 | Info
After Acorn launched earlier this year, our community quickly asked for a Visual Studio Code extension. We set out to make working with Acorn without leaving VS Code possible. After hearing that feedback, we are excited to announce our first published release of the...
by Bill Maxwell | Oct 13, 2022 | Tutorials
Automating deployments always has friction when it comes to secrets management. GitOps, the Kubernetes way of automating deployments, is driven by changes to files in a Git repository containing all of the manifests. But what about secrets? When it comes to passwords,...
by Bill Maxwell | Oct 12, 2022 | Tutorials
Intro In this post I will discuss one of the many ways to use Hashicorp’s Vault in a Kubernetes environment with Acorn. Vault is a very popular tool used to secure, store, and tightly control access to passwords and other sensitive data. Vault can be used on...
by Bill Maxwell | Aug 31, 2022 | Tutorials
Running apps in production always comes with the need for a database password, api key, or private key. It has always been a challenge to securely deliver sensitive information to the application. Acorn provides a flexible way to accommodate getting secrets to your...
by Bill Maxwell | Aug 4, 2022 | Tutorials
Intro WordPress is one of the most popular CMS systems on the internet, so this is the obligatory running WordPress with Acorn blog. In this post we are going to walk through building an Acorn image that has mariadb and wordpress and running it on a Kubernetes...