There are two hard problems in tech: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors. We have proven this over and over again through a multitude of poorly named things. Whether it’s AWS Serv...

External Secretsis an Open Source Kubernetes operator that integrates with external secret management systems such as AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secret Manager, and Azure Key Vault, ...

Prometheus is a simple and effective open-source monitoring system. In the years after we published the article Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus, the system has graduated from the Cloud Native...

There have been discussions in the aftermath of the log4j vulnerability about whether or not open source is broken or sustainable, what we can do to improve the sustainability of the open source ecosy...

For something that’s supposed to make software development frictionless, open-source licenses generate a remarkable amount of heat and noise.

After a year spent trying to juggle work and home life, no wonder we are all feeling the burn. A simple Google search will reveal the devastating impact the pandemic has had on our mental health. Some...

At AWS re:Invent in late November 2021, something surprisingly pleasing and yet completely inevitable happened. AWS added sustainability to the well-architected pillars that define their “key concepts...

As well as supercharging our customers’ journeys to Cloud Native, Container Solutions’ engineers have a long association with open source software, contributing to a variety of projects, collaborating...

In this second article on our "how to" series on External Secrets we’re looking at the Google Cloud Secret Manager. We are going to configure External Secrets to use a Secret Manager instance as a sec...