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...

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...

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...

If you are using Ingress on your Kubernetes cluster it is possible to restrict access to your application based on dedicated IP addresses. One possible use case would be that you have a development se...

We teamed up with Zoover to help them build a new production environment using Google’s hosted version of Kubernetes (GKE), with a Continuous Delivery pipeline based around CircleCI. In this blog, we’...

Recently we ran into a bit of trouble with our pet CI server. It was being used as a Jenkins server and a Postgres database and Sonar was also running on it but it wasn't evident as it was just a manu...

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with the Nix ecosystem. It offers an interesting and more integrated alternative than traditional configuration and infrastructure management systems such as Puppet, ...