Getting notified on the latest releases of your day-to-day tech stack
In this non-stopping world of Software Development, we are in need to know the latest updates, improvements and fixes in the tech stack we use everyday. Knowing the latest updates of our used technologies, provide us more advantage in case of making decisions, keeping our projects up-to-date and getting the most out of them. Because of this, we normally are interested to get track of them and be up-to-date. In this post we are reviewing some techniques to automate this process.
ReadAutomating Docker container base image updates with Watchtower
The vast majority of Dockerfiles start from a parent image (a base image), which are part of our docker containers, the base from where our projects are built. These base images (normally) are being updated frequently, and we need to follow the updates to not keep our project outdated. Watchtower help us with this frequent updates, managing them seamlessly for our projects.
ReadReplacing self-hosted agents with ephemeral pipelines agents in Azure DevOps
Sometimes we are in need of using self-hosted agents in our pipelines due to our Azure Resources not being exposed on the internet, and only accessible via a private network, because we are excluded from using Microsoft-hosted agents, and we need to maintain a pool of self-hosted agents. In this case, Ephemeral Pipelines Agents could be our solution to get rid of self-hosted agents (for deployment purposes).
ReadUnderstanding and managing peer dependencies in your project
It's very common in JS projects when using several libraries with frameworks that we experience some type of peerDependencies warning in the console (using npm or yarn). These warnings are somewhat confusing are normally ignored. Let's learn more about peerDependencies and have our warnings gone from our projects.
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