Container Solutions’ New Book Is Out! Here’s Why We Wrote It.

    It is with great pride, and no small measure of relief, that we announce the publication of our new book from O’Reilly Media. As of this week, copies of ‘Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Pattern...

    How We Help Bridge Knowledge Gaps on a Team

    At Container Solutions, we often develop advanced Cloud Native solutions and cutting-edge technologies with our customers. There are many challenges with this work. One of them we encounter often is g...

    Running Linux Workloads on Windows — the New Way

    There are a lot of cases where developers are using Windows. Often times it is used as a development platform, either simply through developer preference, or due to company policy or a tooling depende...

    What We Learned at DevOps Days Montreal (Spoiler: a Lot)

    Community has always been a huge part of Container Solutions, from meetups to workshops to conferences. When we launched our new office in Montreal last year, we were eager to join in the local commun...

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    How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster in Under 60 Seconds

    In the past few weeks, I have been doing a lot of different tests and deployments on Kubernetes. Therefore, I had to create and destroy Kubernetes clusters many times (some days, even a few times an h...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 4

    This is part four of a four-part blog series. In this final installment, I’ll explain the second of two scenarios available for Calico and Kubernetes deployment, in which Calico is configured to peer ...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 3

    The previous post in this series took a deep dive into setting up IP Fabric on Cumulus VX and spinning up a Kubernetes cluster connected to it. This post focuses on one of the scenarios available for ...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 2

    Previously in this blog post series, I walked you through a bit of history of data centre networking and introduced Calico for Kubernetes. This blog post deep dives into setting up IP Fabric on Cumulu...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 1

    One day, you may be tempted to build and maintain an on-premises Kubernetes cluster. Don’t do it. That's my best advice. Instead, take a look at the managed cloud provider options like GKE, AKS, and E...