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....

    Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus

    We seem to say this a lot at Container Solutions, but the combination of microservice architectures and the practice of DevOps have smashed apart the assumptions made by traditional tools. None more s...

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    Comments on Semantic Monitoring & Scheduling

    Since first publishing the Monitoring Performance in Microservice Architectures article in a post, I have received many questions, which I am going to address here. I am also going to use this opportu...

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    Testing the microservices. Our approach to API testing.

    Testing microservices versus testing monoliths There are numerous advantages of using microservices over the monolithic application structure.

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    Review of Habitat.sh

    In the announcement video, Adam Jacobs, the CTO and co-founder of Chef, claims that for companies who want to move towards a devops organization, everything depends on how people in an organization wo...