State of DevOps 2019: Expertise Spreads, Diversity Progress Stalls

    First, some good news: the DevOps field’s expertise and performance is growing rapidly. Its best practices, like a clear change-approval process, not only improve speed and stability, but also help de...

    What You Need to Know About Debugging Docker Containers

    Debugging Docker containers can be a very challenging process. Here, I’ll share a few basic techniques for debugging containers—mostly Docker ones, but the techniques are also valid for many other typ...

    Linux Capabilities: Why They Exist and How They Work

    Linux capabilities, and how they interact with users and containers, can confuse even experienced engineers. At first it seems like this is fairly straightforward stuff, but it gets complex quickly an...

    Solving 2 Common Deployment Dilemmas in Kubernetes With Istio

    If you’re an engineer working with containers, and especially with Kubernetes, you’re going to hear about Istio. For the uninitiated, Istio is the service mesh for Kubernetes. A service mesh is a netw...

    Announcing Container Solutions' First Public Courses in Kubernetes

    Container Solutions’ training has helped hundreds of employees at client companies like Adidas, Booking.com, and Earthport gain the know-how they need to manage Cloud Native technology like Kubernetes...

    How Our Hiring Process Puts Candidates' Career Needs First

    If you are a Cloud Native engineer, you’ve got cutting-edge skills that are in high demand. You might be getting as many as nine messages a day from recruiters. It could be flattering if it weren’t so...

    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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    The 5 Skills You Need for Strategic Leadership

    At Container Solutions, we differentiate between leadership and strategic leadership. Both involve inspiring a group with a vision of the future. Both involve connecting a starting point, A, with an e...

    A Guide to Solving Those Mystifying CORS Issues

    Imagine you’re building the UI. You need to connect to remote API to get or send some data. Everything works fine when you test your REST calls with curl, but when you implement them in the UI, it doe...