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    Running a Secure Registry on Kubernetes

    Once your shiny new Kubernetes cluster is up-and-running, one of the first things you'll want to add is a local registry for storing private images. This is typically achieved using the official Kuber...

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    Adding Self-signed Registry Certs to Docker & Docker for Mac

    The Docker registry image has over 10 million pulls on Docker Hub, so it's safe to say that a lot of people out there are making use of it. When running a registry, it's essential to make sure your cl...

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    An Introduction to stream processing systems: Kafka, AWS Kinesis and Azure Event Hubs

    Stream Processing Systems are one of the most powerful tools you can include in a microservice infrastructure, but from conversations I have had, many developers adopting microservices have not really...

    The .NET experience with microservices (.NET Core/Docker/Kubernetes/WeaveNet/Azure)

    The .NET experience with microservices (.NET Core/Docker/Kubernetes/WeaveNet/Azure)

    Continuous Integration of deployment of micro-services to different platforms

    In this blog post, I describe how we created DeployDocs to improve the continuous integration of the micro-services in the Socks Shop and the platforms it can be deployed to.

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    Running Kontena in the Google Cloud

    In this blog post we'll set up Kontena on top of CoreOS on GCE. In the previous blog, I described Kontena's architecture.

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    Kontena: an alternative container orchestrator

    Some weeks ago, I encountered Kontena. It is an open source project for containerized application orchestration, that does things a little different compared to the currently big players, such as Kube...

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    An argument against REST in microservices

    Rest has become a widely accepted standard for API’s. There are a few reasons for this, it is easy to follow, works very much like a web browser does, and as such uses common tools to digest the servi...

    Monitoring a microservice application with CoScale on Kubernetes

    Monitoring microservice systems has been a hot topic at Container Solutions for some time. Combined with our recent interest in Kubernetes we set out to give the new CoScale monitoring solution a try....