It is with great pride, and no small measure of relief, that we announce the publication of our new book from O’Reilly Media. As of this week, copies of ‘Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation’ are available for digital download, though if you prefer the analog version those won’t be available until 24 December. (Apologies if that messes up your holiday gift list. In the meantime, you can get a free excerpt here).

At Container Solutions, we often develop advanced Cloud Native solutions and cutting-edge technologies with our customers. There are many challenges with this work. One of them we encounter often is getting everyone on the team on the same level of understanding and engagement.

There are a lot of cases where developers are using Windows. Often times it is used as a development platform, either simply through developer preference, or due to company policy or a tooling dependency. As more frameworks and services become available on the Linux platform, such as Microsoft’s .NET Core, Linux becomes more attractive as a target environment for running and testing projects—especially with the abundance of tooling and.

Community has always been a huge part of Container Solutions, from meetups to workshops to conferences. When we launched our new office in Montreal last year, we were eager to join in the local community by participating in events. So we co-sponsored last year’s DevOps Days Montreal. Earlier this month, we did it again. 

In the past few weeks, I have been doing a lot of different tests and deployments on Kubernetes. Therefore, I had to create and destroy Kubernetes clusters many times (some days, even a few times an hour). I needed a fresh cluster due to specific things I was testing, so simply deleting all the pods, services, deployment, etc., to make the cluster ‘like new’ wouldn’t help.