Cloud Native

Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, CNCF joins us to talk about all that's happening in cloud-native from the perspective of vendors, open source projects, and end users. He shares practical advice for anyone affected by the recent layoffs and gets us excited about the upcoming KubeCon Europe.

Our series on Service Mash has reached its third instalment with this post. In the first post, we went over the features and use cases of a Service Mesh, and in the second article, we demonstrated how to set up a Consul cluster on HCP by utilising the user interface. This time, we are going to talk about how to automate the deployment of Consul. OK so lets get started,  login to your HCP portal and...

It is time to start looking at the next new release of Terraform, the current latest and greatest (at time of writing) version is 1.3.8, was released on the 9th of February. This version was a minor bug-fixing release and should not change any current behaviour of your code base.  We have outlined the bugs as taken from the release site in full below: BUG FIXES: Fixed a rare bug causing inaccurate before_sensitive / after_sensitive annotations in...

One thing that is constant with IT is that change is the norm and buzzword bingo is a game we play every meeting.   The phrase of the day is Service Mesh, you know me I love a definition, so according to Gartner a service mesh is: A service mesh is distributed middleware that optimizes communications between application services, especially on microservices. Well, that clears that up perfectly, sounds like RabbitMQ. And on a very-very high level...

Two of the biggest Strategy buzzwords surrounding Technology rattling around in boardrooms and technical meeting rooms across the length and breadth of Europe are Multi-Cloud, and Hybrid-Cloud; these, together with the associated benefits, potential risks, issues, and constraints that any adoption could bring. What is confusing about these terms is that, ostensibly, they mean the same thing; you house your resources and data in a most performant or economic location for the service; that may...

CI/CD and DevOps are all about the processing of automation steps to build and secure software applications. Various tools need to be integrated tightly to make sure all of these steps work fluently together. These integration points use Rest APIs to communicate back and forth. This is seen from a system-to-system perspective. The developer perspective seeks integration points between technical tools and their collaboration counterparts. These include tools like Slack, Github, MS Teams, or...

The term cloud-native has been bandied about for years now but what was once short-hand for a specific type of IT architecture is in danger of becoming yet another meaningless buzzword. The term itself generally refers to IT technologies that are designed to run in a way that makes it simple to spin up and down IT infrastructure resources in the cloud. The best example is, of course, Kubernetes, which at its core is...

Just some phrases from the Gitpod website: "Select project, start coding", "Works on my machine - and yours", "Always ready to code.". Those statements make you curious. What's it all about and what should you know about it? GitPod is the new local developer experience. Suppose you have a new developer joining the team. He/she needs to learn about the project itself, get up to speed in the organization itself, and also set up...

This is the fifth part of a series of articles attempting to lay down a road map to kickstart a potential journey into SRE.  In the first part of this series, we discussed MADARR and its relationships with the DevOps principles of continual development and continual improvement.  The Second Article introduced the concepts of Observability and discussed the first stage in the journey outlined in the diagram below.  The third article discussed moving your...

This is the fourth part of a series of articles attempting to lay down a road map to kickstart a potential journey into SRE. In the first part of this series, we discussed MADARR and its relationships with the DevOps principles of continual development and continual improvement. The Second Article introduced the concepts of Observability and discussed the first stage in the journey outlined in the diagram below. The third article discussed moving your...