Ádám Sándor

    Ádám Sándor
    Ádám Sándor is a Cloud Native architect at Container Solutions.
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    War and Peace and Cloud Native: the Battle Between IT and Business

    I recently read Mark Schwartz’s book War and Peace and IT, an excellent treatise on why companies struggle so much with delivering IT capabilities. What Schwartz writes about organisational dynamics o...

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    GitOps: The Bad and the Ugly

    I recently spoke with the developers of Humanitec, a Continuous Delivery platform for Kubernetes. Humanitec is interesting because, contrary to recent trends, it’s not based on a GitOps deployment wor...

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    Cloud Native Java: Infrastructure Automation with Kubernetes Operators

    Java (and its other JDK-based siblings) is the most widely used programming language in large companies. Java developers are backend focused and used to building complex distributed systems. Yet these...

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    11 Reasons for Adopting GitOps

    Kubernetes allows us to manage our application deployments and other infrastructure components purely using declarative configuration files (e.g. we’re all YAML developers now). This enables us to put...

    Building a Large-Scale, Continuous Delivery Platform: a Case Study

    About a year ago, we at Container Solutions started our engagement with FiduciaGAD, the largest IT service provider for banks in Germany. The focus of this project is to build a Continuous Integration...

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    Enterprise grade CI/CD with GitOps

    Implementing Continuous Delivery[1] at enterprise scale is a major challenge. As every company has to innovate their software delivery methods, we need to allow individual teams to learn and improve t...

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    Increasing productivity with Continuous Delivery

    It is an interesting feature of today’s software development landscape, that while some consider Continuous Delivery a done deal, there are still many teams out there who either don’t see or are strug...

    Propagating configuration from Terraform to Kubernetes Apps

    I recently encountered an interesting problem while terraforming Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud. Our Terraform configurations have some important information which is needed by applications runni...

    Monitoring containers on GKE with Google Stackdriver

    After acquiring Stackdriver in 2014, Google worked hard to make it the default log aggregation and monitoring solution for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The feature set of Stackdriver is pretty good fo...