Using Helm and Kustomize to Build More Declarative Kubernetes Workloads

    With declarative infrastructure, what you define is what gets set up on your system. When software engineers use Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, in building a Cloud Native system, they tend ...

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    Going from Corporate Citizen to Cloud Native

    About four months ago I left my cushy enterprise job in sales at Oracle to go work as a Cloud Native engineer at Container Solutions.

    What Container Solutions Does, in 4 Steps: Think, Design, Build, Run

    Moving your business to the cloud could mean freeing your organisation from the need to maintain your own antiquated, energy-sucking data centres for everything. Escaping the ever-present threat that ...

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    A Cloud Native Transformation Scenario to Avoid: ‘Lift and Shift’

    Getting started with Cloud Native is deceptively easy. Anyone, anywhere—even with zero Cloud Native experience—can simply go online to any public cloud provider, click, and within 10 seconds have a fu...

    Linux Capabilities In Practice

    In a previous post we covered the history and rules behind capabilities. In this post, we'll go through some examples of how Linux capabilities work and can be used, and the tooling available. We will...

    How Container Solutions and Eckoh Built a New Onboarding Process

    As Container Solutions grows, so does the number of projects we commit to every year. To keep quality high and continue to serve our clients well, we have learned to streamline the way we deliver our ...

    Why We're Adopting Pixar's 'Braintrust' Model at Container Solutions

    Engineers at Container Solutions take on complicated and creative projects and might become lost along the way. To create something great, you have to become part of it. You have to live and breathe i...

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    Using Functional Programming When Building Cloud Native Applications with AWS Lambda

    I’d like to share with you the architecture and programming pattern we've been using to build Cloud Native applications. The use case I'm going to present is a RESTful application deployed on AWS, usi...

    Cloud Native and High-Performance Organisations

    You may be wondering, what is the relationship between high-performance organisations and Cloud Native? It’s quite simple, really. Cloud Native is a sociotechnology, meaning it encompasses technical e...