Gitlab CI/CD with CSI PowerMax
Watch the basic deployment & snapshot-based deployment videos on Youtube and check the .gitlab-ci-cd.yaml on Gitlab.
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Merge ConfigMap and Secrets
To use a Secret value within a ConfigMap you can use an initContainer to call a template engine.
K8s events monitoring
For events monitoring you can use this ready-to-go elastic + kibana + k8s-event-exporter stack from: k8s-events-reporting