The Eclipse Foundation is joining forces with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to form a new Eclipse working group focused on improving Kubernetes IoT and edge deployments, the two organizations announced.

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This was a hard task for me, but alongside, i was able to learn Kubernetes by practicing it and managed to understand key-concepts of…

This tutorial demonstrates how to automate the setup of a Kubernetes cluster with Python and Fabric on DigitalOcean.

While many in the cloud native community praise the Prometheus monitoring tool for its ease of use, it was not designed to permanently store operational data, nor be used for more than one client. Now a project from Weaveworks, called Cortex, packages Prometheus…

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The bi-annual CNCF survey takes a pulse of the community to better understand the adoption of cloud native technologies. This is the sixth time CNCF has taken the temperature of the container…

Your Workers now have access to a low-latency key-value data store which lives inside our network all around the world!

A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket belonging to Medcall Healthcare Advisors exposed sensitive patient records as well as confidential doctor-patient audio discussions. For some reason, the story about the misconfigured AWS S3 bucket keeps repeating itself. Verizon…

Get more efficient by using condensed versions of long Bash commands.

There is a lot of discussion lately about how SRE fits into or competes with or whatever-s with DevOps.  I’m scheduled to speak on a “SRE vs DevOps Smackdown” panel today here at …

SLO BURN Jamie Wilkinson @jaqx0r Velocity, October 2018 Hello people of Velocity! My name is Jamie Wilkinson, and I’m an SRE at Google in Sydney. This is a talk about being on call, about operational overload, and how to overcome it. A few years ago I was…

Lessons learn’t on why well architected monoliths are okay at a DevOps Days London Open Space

Pester is a fantastic tool to test and monitor the status of your infrastructure. There are several libraries which leverage this directly (e.g. SQLChecks, DBAChecks, Operation Validation Framework), and a growing set of resources discussing how to leverage…

I love big cities, I have lived mainly in big cities all through my life until recently. Some people even say I can tolerate large…

Updating server software is all well and good. But if a malicious hacker gets into the data center, there will be hell to pay. Experienced sysadmins and security experts offer advice on how to lock out intruders from your server hardware and control physical…

This is the first in a three part series on sinkholing, targeted attacks, and how to defend your platform. As our user base (and our popularity...

Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. This post describes common patterns and approaches for managing secrets in serverless such as encrypted environment variables, IAM, and Google Cloud Storage.