Container Platforms: Why and How?

Lars Larsson — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:43:56 +0000

This article is all about demystifying container platforms and showing what value they bring on several levels: business, organization, and tech. There is a summary at the end, but if you can’t wait: it’s all about realizing that platform operations, with the right tools, can be seen as a commodity, and is therefore possible to centralize internally or outsource. Both lead to significant increases in return of investment (ROI) and the reduction of operational expenses. If platform administration is also outsourced, it also leads to a substantially lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Alternatives to Consider Before Investing in Service Meshes

Elastisys — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 05:16:53 +0000

4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what administrators are already familiar with.

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Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage

Elastisys — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:50:25 +0000

Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB
Why we selected Thanos among 28 Prometheus integrations.

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HOW TO Stop Running Containers as Root

Elastisys — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:45:58 +0000

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 of the container, and that grants unfettered access to the host or Kubernetes node. The latest such bug is CVE-2022-0492 (Palo Alto Network’s writeup here), but we also had CVE-2022-0185 […]

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Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for Microservice Authentication

Elastisys — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:41:24 +0000

HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and easily managed way on Kubernetes.

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DevOps: Why It Is Misunderstood & What It Always Should Have Been

Elastisys — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:34:27 +0000

We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a realistic approach to DevOps truly means.

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