Alternatives to consider before investing in service meshes
4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what…
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Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage
Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB Why…
HOWTO stop running containers as root
Running containers as root is a bad idea for security. This has been shown time…
Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for microservice authentication
HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and…
DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a…
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Free Guide: How to Operate a Secure Kubernetes Platform
This guide discusses the four most important aspects when operating a secure Kubernetes platform.
Free Guide: How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022
How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022. The NSA/CISA guidelines summarized, with Elastisys hands-on advice…
Free Guide: Our 15 Principles for Designing and Deploying Scalable Applications on Kubernetes
Our 15 principles for how to design and deploy cloud native applications on Kubernetes -…
Scalability Design Principles
Our 10 best software scalability design principles covering the four scalability dimensions: performance, availability, maintenance,…
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Free Guide: How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022
How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022. The NSA/CISA guidelines summarized, with Elastisys hands-on advice and real-world recommendations.
Busting vcluster myths: *what is* a virtual cluster?
Vcluster allows running a logical Kubernetes cluster within a physical Kubernetes cluster, without needing cluster-admin permissions to the physical cluster. We heard people quickly making…
Best Practices for Deploying Applications to Production in Kubernetes
Going live with your application and deploying it to production on Kubernetes means you are exposing it to your end users. You want this to…
Why and how should you reboot Kubernetes Nodes?
As recently highlighted by the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY), data breaches are on the rise in particular in the healthcare sector. Part of…
Cost-effective preview environments in Kubernetes
How Elastisys helped FRISQ create cost-effective preview environments in Kubernetes - with single click on-demand deployment.
The Difference Between Liveness and Readiness Probes in Kubernetes
Kubernetes is all about automation. And it can do a considerably better job the more information it has about your application. A key source of…
