How to provision Kubernetes on AWS from scratch, with Terraform and Ansible. Walk through a sample, tutorial project to install K8s on the "bare-cloud".

Author’s Note: Thanks, as ever, to Fred Hebert, for reading a draft of this post and making some sterling suggestions. This is the first…

It was brought to my attention recently that there is a dearth of introductory educational material available about modern network load…

In part one of this series we introduced the idea of a message log, touched on why it’s useful, and discussed the storage mechanics behind it. In part two, we discuss data replication. We hav…

As editor of Database Weekly, a weekly newsletter on what’s new in the world of databases and data storage generally, I enjoy poking…

In the fifth part of a series about cloud native thinking, let's discuss how microservices add resilience, independence, and clarity to a large application.

One of the most challenging parts of deploying your application in the cloud is to set up a proper infrastructure, common tasks like creating a VPC, configuring auto-scaling, load balancers and gateways rapidly become time-consuming and cumbersome. That’s…

On this blog from very early on, we have advocated the concept of service mesh. In fact, our post a sidecar for your service mesh is one of the most viewed posts this year. When Buoyant announced the Conduit - their next-generation lightweight service mesh…

“Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management” ― Orrin Woodward

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation - acmesh-official/acme.sh

Learn how to identify and track key PostgreSQL performance metrics in this monitoring guide.

Learn how to query and collect key PostgreSQL activity metrics.

kubeadm-centos7-bare-metal - Guide covering how to create a bare metal Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm and Centos 7

Deconstructing containers and examples to better understand the technology

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog by Michael Eves, member to the Sensu community. He offered to share his experience as a user in his…

Developers produced some really great resources for each other in 2017. After 8+ years reading and curating developer content, I thought it was about time that I compile an end-of-year list with the scores of resource links that I share on Twitter and Reddit…

Learn which DevOps events are must-attend and which might be worth considering.

In the first post of this series I described the network that enables pods to connect to each other across nodes in a kubernetes cluster…

tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.