Some notes by the Author

Why MOADSD-NG

First - while using lots of technologies within the DevOps concepts - lots of tools, scripts, playbooks and notes got created. Until today, they are simplifying the setup and usage of kubernetes clusters, running GitLabs / Jenkins release management tools, service meshs, storages etc. All these code and documentation snippets are helping to gain experience and are enabling the development of use cases in this extremely interesting area.

Since none of these technologies are "setup-next-next-finish"-technologies and therefore rebuilding an environment from scratch can be pretty time consuming, maintaining such an environment really shouts for automation and orchestration.

Second - Realising that these technologies are sometimes a little difficult to dive in, it is good to have some documentation about the learnings for later reference.

Third - Not everybody has the requirement to know how to setup a kubernetes cluster from scratch using Cri-o as the runtime. So having access to an environment with the essentials already configured might help using the high-level concepts of DevOps.

Finally, After reviewing what has been created in the past, the idea was born to put everything together and to create a project, which combines many of these technologies and itself in using these technologies.

These thoughts resulted in MOADSD-NG which, as stated before, is targeting to be a playground, a learning and demoing environment in which one can easily try out the DevOps related technologies like Containers, Kubernetes, Service Meshs, CI/CD pipelines etc. - and of course, in combination with Deep Security / Deep Security Smart Check.

Contributions and ideas are welcome.

Cheers, Markus