Custom Ink's Kubernetes Journey

There's been an elephant in the room during the past few Custom Ink Tech Blog updates. Perhaps it's been alluded to, but we've been consistently putting off addressing it here, simply because of its scale, as well as how many subsequent blog posts could be written wrestling with its implications. (This, of course, means we've also been putting off said subsequent blog posts, because we never got around to writing this one.) So, it's time to rip off the proverbial...

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Magic Eye Puzzles: Keeping Design Principles in Focus

Custom Ink is an eCommerce company, so our business involves creating orders for customers. And creating orders means allowing customers to check out, to bring their desired goods and services to the register and pay for them. There are different ways people order from us - for example, in bulk, for a group, as part of a fundraiser - so we offer a number of different ways to create orders. Each of these ways has its own application, a domain...

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Trigger CircleCI Workflow. AKA Simple Deploy Button

Very simple, no parameters needed, no enums, no booleans... just a really easy way to trigger a deploy with CircleCI. We can do this making use of the trigger_source pipeline value. When you click the button in CircleCI to "Trigger Pipeline" the value would be api vs something like webhook.

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New Amazon Linux Dev Container Features

🆕 Want to use Codespaces with Amazon Linux 2? Check out customink/codespaces-features for two custom features. 1) common-amzn 2) docker-in-docker-amzn.

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