The 3 Most Common Cloud Native Goals & What Kind of Company Are You?

    Cloud Native Goals In our earlier posts in this series we described a Cloud Native Strategy as a way to achieve business goals by taking a particular set of actions:

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    A High Available Redis cluster on top of Kubernetes and Habitat

    In the last two months, I've worked together with Chef to evaluate Habitat from a cloud native developer perspective. This is the last blog in a series of three where I'll share my experiences. The fi...

    What is a Cloud Native Strategy?

    In the last two blogs on this subject we talked about Cloud Native computing and about strategy. In this blog, we'll put the two together and consider Cloud Native Strategy - what it means and how to ...

    The Seven Elements of Strategy (Which You'll Need To Know If You Are Creating a Cloud Native Strategy)

    In the first post in this series, my colleague Anne Currie said that cloud native was about speed, scale and costs. We discovered that cloud native helps you get your ideas to market quickly; that clo...

    This is not the Serverless I Ordered

    What Is Cloud Native?

    According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) a Cloud Native strategy is about scale and resilience: “distributed systems capable of scaling to tens of thousands of self healing multi-tena...

    How To Secure Your DC/OS Packet Cluster with IP Whitelisting using ipset

    Recently I wanted to run DC/OS on Packet, the bare metal cloud. However, the Terraform scripts do not setup any firewall rules. This leaves the cluster exposed to internet traffic. To fix this I setup...

    Docker Swarm with Azure Container Services and Azure Resource Manager

    Docker Swarm with Azure Container Services and Azure Resource Manager In an earlier post we explained how easy it is to setup a Docker Swarm cluster in Azure using Azure Container Services and Terrafo...

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    Docker Swarm with Azure Container Services

    Docker Swarm with Azure Container Services As part of setting up a Docker Swarm cluster for one of our customers in their public cloud provider, Microsoft Azure, we learned how easy it was to set it u...