I have been spending a lot of the last year learning about Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Two of the best technologies on GCP are Container…

For people who started their company on a cloud platform since day 1, what you’ll read below will sometimes look obvious or even funny…

Once upon a time, say ~10 years ago, some of us dealing with virtual machines used tools like kpartx or guestfs to access virtual machines…

OK, so you have your beautiful web application, you packaged it and deployed as a docker containers, but how to expose it to the world?

ZFS should have been great, but I kind of hate it: ZFS seems to be trapped in the past, before it was sidelined it as the cool storage project of choice; it's inflexible; it lacks modern flash integration; and it's not directly supported by most operating…

Kubernetes and friends are powerful tools that can really simplify your operations. However, there are many gotchas and common pitfalls that can ruin your experience. I’ll share some best practices around building and deploying your containers that will let…

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A head-to-head showdown of the providers fighting for your dollars

Contino helps large, heavily-regulated enterprises to become fast, agile and competitive

Drawing from our developer experience learnings operating a Serverless-like platform at Netflix, we outline various aspects that are applicable to general purpose serverless solutions too.

Tons of improvements made their way into the ansible-hardening role in preparation for the OpenStack Pike release next month. The role has a new name, new documentation and extra tests.
The role uses the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) produced…

Ansible role for security hardening. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. - openstack/ansible-hardening

I’ve written about systemd-networkd in the past and how easy it can be to set up new network devices and tunnels.

Python decorators are a useful but flawed language feature. Intended to make source code easier to write, and a little more readable, they neglect to address another use case: that of the programmer who will be calling the decorated code. If you’re a Python…

I'd like to announce an new Python module to make working with Amazon S3 files a whole lot easier. The S3FS class in fs-s3fs wraps an Amazon S3 bucket in a PyFilesystem interface. There was an S3FS class built in to the first version of PyFilesystem, but…