Elastisys blog: cloud native, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes

Evaluation of Cloud Native Message Queues

Post author:Kian Nassiri
Post published:June 9, 2021
Post category:Research

Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ? Kian Nassiri's master thesis compares message queuing systems. Which has best performance and scalability in 2021?

Cloud-agnostic third party managed Kubernetes services – the unexploited opportunity

Post author:Lars Larsson
Post published:June 3, 2021
Post category:CTO Headaches

Managed Kubernetes services from cloud providers are not for everyone. This article lists 5 benefits of using a cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes service.

Kube-Prometheus – A Complete Monitoring Stack Using Jsonnet

Post author:Lennart Jern
Post published:May 17, 2021
Post category:Elastisys Engineering Technical posts

Monitoring your application and its platform is basic hygiene for running a healthy software-as-a-service business. But how exactly do you monitor your application? In this post, we will illustrate how to achieve that using kube-prometheus.

How open source benefits business continuity

Post author:Cristian Klein
Post published:April 16, 2021
Post category:CTO Headaches

One of the most important aspects of compliance is business continuity. In this post, we will explain how using off-the-shelf open source components makes business continuity planning a breeze for risk officers.

Enforcing Policy as Code using OPA and Gatekeeper in Kubernetes

Post author:Pavan Gunda
Post published:April 15, 2021
Post category:Elastisys Engineering Technical posts

Enforcing organizational policies on a Kubernetes cluster allows you to be in control of the resources being deployed. For example, you can prevent deploying non-vetted pods to the production environment…

Elastisys Engineering: How to use Dex with Google accounts to manage access in Kubernetes

Post author:Emil Vannebäck and Pavan Gunda
Post published:April 8, 2021
Post category:Elastisys Engineering Technical posts

In this blog post, we will go through everything needed to use Google as your identity provider in a Kubernetes cluster. If you have an organization that uses Google cloud…

Elastisys contributes Kubespray support for UpCloud

Post author:Lars Larsson
Post published:March 31, 2021
Post category:Compliant Kubernetes Elastisys Engineering Technical posts

Elastisys is committed to open source, and to supporting Kubernetes on a wide range of cloud infrastructure. As part of our work, we have recently submitted and successfully merged patches to…