Create an identical machine image from a single source

Recently there have been many great posts helping to define with more precision distinctions between different tools and problems related…

Sometimes you need to learn and master something completely new in a short amount of time. Say, like in my case, it might be your boss, who…

I am proud to announce the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers. ACI offers you an on-demand compute service delivering…

Even smart admins can make bad decisions.

What happens to a container's MCS label when the container is rebuilt or upgraded?

What skills does a modern IT operations engineer need now? In the future? Here are top resources to get up to speed.

There’s a ton of talk about gVisor containers here at KubeCon in Copenhagen. So what’s the craic? Before this week, we had two major choices for containers: 1. Namespaced containers 2. …

The main reason most enterprises want to move to the cloud can be explained in two words: product velocity. There are myriad benefits to Cloud Native computing, from lower hosting costs to reduced infrastructure complexity and increased scalability.

lightning talk at Clever, 4/30/18

Modern software has almost completed its evolution toward component-based architectures—seen in the mainstream embrace of self-contained systems (SCS), microse…

Dive into a production Kubernetes outage that Monzo experienced a few months ago, its causes and effects, and the architectural and operational lessons learned.

A programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine, and create network services.

Tools to test Terraform, Packer, Docker, AWS, and much more

Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code. - gruntwork-io/terratest

Docker images and test runners that replicate the live AWS Lambda environment - lambci/docker-lambda

Architect is a simple framework for building and delivering powerful Functional Web Apps (FWAs) on AWS.

What skills does a modern IT operations engineer need now? In the future? Here are top resources to get up to speed.