Deep Dive: Deployment Automation for Applications on Kubernetes (Part 1)

    This post is the first part of a series. Read the second part here. Kubectl, if only by being the official CLI, is certainly the most popular way of interacting with Kubernetes clusters. And running k...

    Where Is Your Microservices Architecture?

    At Container Solutions we often get asked what someone needs to do in order to be successful with microservices. This includes the technical challenges as well whether their culture and team structure...

    Takeaways from the CNCF’s Latest Annual Report

    The Cloud Native community continues to spread rapidly, according to the 2019 annual report released by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this month. Given the more than 5,000 words contain...

    More Public Kubernetes Courses Coming in 2020

    This year, Container Solutions will continue to offer training in Kubernetes to the general public through its partnership with Amazic, a Dutch company that specialises in DevOps training. Registratio...

    7 Cloud Native Trends to Watch in 2020

    As Cloud Native continues to grow in popularity, with more organisations than ever adopting the tech and all that comes with it, let’s take a look at what we are expecting to see in 2020.

    Running Linux Workloads on Windows — the New Way

    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 depende...

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    How to Create a Kubernetes Cluster in Under 60 Seconds

    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 h...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 4

    This is part four of a four-part blog series. In this final installment, I’ll explain the second of two scenarios available for Calico and Kubernetes deployment, in which Calico is configured to peer ...

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    Prototyping On-Premises Network Infrastructure for Workloads Running on Kubernetes Clusters: Part 3

    The previous post in this series took a deep dive into setting up IP Fabric on Cumulus VX and spinning up a Kubernetes cluster connected to it. This post focuses on one of the scenarios available for ...