Cloud Native: why bother, its benefits, and its greatest pitfall
In this article, we will focus on the benefits cloud native technology brings, how it brings them, and also, the greatest pitfall.
Technical posts
Technical posts related to all the things we do in the cloud-native space: security, compliance, Kubernetes, DevOps, DevSecOps, and managed services such as Compliant Kubernetes, Managed PostgreSQL by Elastisys, and so much more.
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…
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…
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 we selected Thanos among 28 Prometheus integrations.
HOWTO stop running containers as root
Running containers as root is a bad idea for security. This has been shown time and time again. Hackers find new ways of escaping out…
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 easily managed way on Kubernetes.
