A recipe for a bespoke on-prem Kubernetes cluster
So you want to build yourself a Kubernetes cluster? You have your reasons. Some may want to utilize the hardware they own, some may not fully trust these fan...
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Which Kubernetes distribution to choose for on-prem environments?
Most people think that Kubernetes was designed to bring more features and more abstraction layers to cloud environments. Well, I think the biggest benefits c...
How to modify containers without rebuilding their image
Containers are a beautiful piece of technology that ease the development of modern applications and also the maintenance of modern environments. One thing t...
The challenges of multi-cloud environments
When this all IT revolution began, we started with one computer that was the size of a room, then we invented server rooms, we started dividing servers into ...
4 ways to manage Kubernetes resources
Kubectl is the new ssh When I started my adventure with linux systems the first tool I had to get to know was ssh. Oh man, what a wonderful and powerful pie...
How to build CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes
Kubernetes as a standard development platform We started with single, often powerful, machines that hosted many applications. Soon after came virtualization...
Maintaining big Kubernetes environments with factories
People are fascinated by containers, Kubernetes and cloud native approach for different reasons. It could be enhanced security, real portability, greater ext...
How to increase container security with proper images
Security is a major factor when it comes to a decision of whether to invest your precious time and resources in new technology. It’s no different for contain...
Why GKE is probably the best Kubernetes service available
So you’ve heard of Kubernetes already and maybe you also tried to deploy it on your on-prem infrastructure or in the cloud. And although deploying an app on ...
Three levels of highly available apps on Kubernetes
Beautiful but useless systems Hundreds of applications, thousands of users and millions of requests - that is often a landscape of modern IT environment. St...
Containers done right - providing configuration
Containers are ephemeral, but almost always require configuration and credentials. They are kept and maintained seperately from application code. This princi...
Why managing container images on OpenShift is better than on Kubernetes
So you’ve decided to go with Kubernetes and started building your container images. Now the question is where to push them and how to manage them properly?
Myths around containers. Part 3: Speed
Containers are considerably faster than virtual machines - at least that’s what most people say. But do they actually bring more speed to overall development...
Myths around containers. Part 2: Portability
Is it true that after so many years we finally have real, portable format for all applications? It seems that we’ve come very close to that goal and it’s tim...
Myths around containers. Part 1: Security
We had many revolutions in IT infrastructure world over past 20 years or so. Virtualization promised hardware abstraction, private cloud promised lower costs...
10 reasons why Kubernetes has won
We’ve been falling for the containers hype for the past few months and Kubernetes has emerged as a leader among container orchestrator to help build solution...