Slides for my talk at the inaugural #UptimeConf in 2017. Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE

The Gold Standard for modern cloud-native applications is a serverless architecture. AWS Lambda allows you to implement scala...

Everyone needs to configure applications. You often need to reference “special” bits of data, such as API keys, tokens, and other secrets…

This is a continuation from Part 1.

Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface - cri-o/cri-o

Free Linux Howtos and Articles by the author of the security book Linux Servers and Security: Hack and Defend - Chris Binnie

Discover open source libraries, modules and frameworks you can use in your code

tl;dr: this is not an audit and I take no responsibility for your backups, but I
had a quick look at the crypto and I think I'm going to use restic for my
personal backups.

I keep hearing good things
[http://jpmens.net/2017/08/22/my-backup-software-of-choice…

By Tait Brown When an experiment with existing open source technology does a “good enough” job The Victoria Police are the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. With over 16,000 vehicles stolen in Victoria this past year — at a cost...

Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an amazing guy. If you take a moment to think back to the PDF…

Collect stats on your network with a basic install that incorporates collectd, InfluxDB, and Grafana on the same host.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 (in fact Xubuntu) and will show you how to install Kubernetes (current stable 1.7) Prerequisites If not already installed you need to have Docker installed. Check official docker setup documentaton Kubernetes repo Next steps need to…

Simple Go-based setuid+setgid+setgroups+exec. Contribute to tianon/gosu development by creating an account on GitHub.

PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for AWS components. - milo-minderbinder/AWS-PlantUML

Bridget Kromhout

In this post, I’ll provide some background on the Clear Containers project and describe how Clear Containers works with CRI-O and…

What happens when you take the leap of faith and leave the security of a systems engineering team to become the first systems person at a startup? What should …

Learn what graceful shutdown is, what are the main benefits of it, and how can you achieve it with a Node.js application running on Kubernetess.

I don't always feel like a wizard. Like many of you, I've been doing operations for a couple of years, and I still have a TON TO LEARN about how to do this "S…