Introducing Acorn Services and Nested Acorns

Introducing Acorn Services and Nested Acorns

Applications today are typically a composition of microservices, storage, databases, and APIs. Describing an application’s runtime dependencies typically involves infrastructure provisioning like Terraform and/or complex YAML. In Acorn 0.7, which we released...
Introducing Acorn VS Code Extension

Introducing Acorn VS Code Extension

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...
Introducing Acorn Encrypted Secrets

Introducing Acorn Encrypted Secrets

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,...
Consuming Vault Secrets in Acorn Apps

Consuming Vault Secrets in Acorn Apps

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...
Unlocking Acorn’s Native Secret Management

Unlocking Acorn’s Native Secret Management

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...