Why Kubernetes Makes Sense

    As a service provider in the programmable infrastructure space, we at Container Solutions are constantly investigating new tools and technologies to help our clients to deploy and maintain large and c...

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    Security Week

    Next week, Adrian will be speaking at GOTO; Amsterdam about 'Using Docker Safely'.

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    Puppet in Docker

    At Container Solutions we're big fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger. His 6 rules of success are highly motivational to us and we keep them in mind in our daily work. Of course we like to joke about them a ...

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    How to build Docker images with Gradle

    In this blog I will show you how to build Docker images from a Gradle task. A number of Docker plugins have been created for Gradle. I discuss the one from Benjamin Muschko which we use to build the s...

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    What is Strategy?

    Yesterday, I was put on the spot by Pini and Jaroslav. I’ve been reading about strategy, and since I am the CEO of a company I am supposed to know about things like strategy and leadership, but when p...

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    Culture - The Great Hiding Place

    Ideas that threaten to interrupt existing power structures, such as a move to DevOps or the introduction of container technology, nearly always lead to resistance. An oversimplified and often exaggera...

    Integrating Drone CI into Apache Mesos (Part 1)

    Drone is a continuous integration (CI) tool, a tool whose aim is to automate the building, testing and deploying of software. There are many CI tools available, with a lot of feature overlap. A compar...

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    Microservices and objects: Similar benefits, similar problems, similar lessons?

    I know I’m not the first person to say that the benefits being sold of microservices are very similar to that of objects in object-oriented programming (OOP) during the 80s and 90s e.g. you can easily...

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    How to run Gradle wrapper from any subdir with Gdub

    Gradle is a popular and flexible build system for JVM-based languages. We use Gradle as the build system for Mesos Elasticsearch. In this blog I discuss two Gradle concepts: the Gradle wrapper and Gdu...