The Cloud Native Attitude Mini-Book

    Introduction to This Blog In April this year, our CEO Jamie Dobson, CTO Pini Reznik and I were sitting around drinking Yorkshire tea and talking about how unclear the phrase “Cloud Native” was. What d...

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    The Structure of Day 2 Problems

    Companies who adopt Cloud Native technologies and principles sooner or later (often sooner) bump into Day 2 problems. This is not because the tooling is bad but rather the opposite - the tooling is ex...

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    Rolling updates with Docker Swarm

    Rolling updates with Docker Swarm Say that you have a set of services up & running in your Swarm cluster. Sooner rather than later there will come a time where you want to upgrade the version of y...

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    Tagging Docker images the right way

    In our consultancy work, we often see companies tagging production images in an ad-hoc manner. Taking a look at their registry, we find a list of images like:

    Kubernetes deployment strategies

    In Kubernetes there are a few different ways to release an application, it is necessary to choose the right strategy to make your infrastructure reliable during an application update. Choosing the rig...

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    Docker Image-Builder Qualities

    Kubernetes The Hard Way Explained - Chapter 2

    Kelsey Hightower’s tutorial is the goto place for wannabe Kubernetes administrators who want to learn the ins and outs of the platform. With the CNCF’s official Kubernetes Certified Administrator prog...

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    Kubernetes The Hard Way Explained - Chapter 1

    Kelsey Hightower’s tutorial is the goto place for wannabe Kubernetes administrators who want to learn the ins and outs of the platform. With the CNCF’s official Kubernetes Certified Administrator prog...

    How Retailers Use Cloud Native Technologies to Capitalise on Existing Physical Assets

    Most forward-thinking retailers have an ecommerce side to their business. Offering products for sale online opens up their business to new target markets, extends their reach, increases their revenue ...