WTF is eBPF? A sneak peek interview with Liz Rice

    WTF is eBPF? What’s the deal with eBPF? Why has it got our engineers so damn excited? What does it mean for security? Why are we hosting sessions on it? And where can you learn more about it?

    How Can Corporate Open Source Consumers Be Better Citizens?

    Cloud Native has become synonymous with open source, partly because organisations such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Continuous Delivery Foundation offer a vendor-neutral home for m...

    WTF is Wrong with Open Source Communities?

    If the tech industry has a diversity, equity and inclusion problem, then the open source world has a catastrophe on its hands. While women make up a still shameful 20 to 23% of the tech industry, wome...

    Tutorial: How to Set External-Secrets with AWS

    As you may already have seen, the team at Container Solutions have recently announced The birth of the external secrets community, where multiple people and organizations are joining efforts to create...

    Analyze Then Store? You’re Kidding Right?

    If I bumped into Zuck’s avatar at the virtual water cooler I’d quit on the spot. But the recent name change at Facebook, Microsoft’s enthusiasm, Nvidia’s Omniverse and broader industry support mean we...

    The Birth of the External Secrets Community

    Managing secrets in Kubernetes can be a cumbersome job. In a multi-service multi-environment setup, you can end up with hundreds of secrets without even noticing. It is hard to keep track of everythin...

    We Built a .NET Operator SDK (So You Don’t Have To)

    We built a .NET Operator SDK, in C#, so you can build your own Kubernetes Operators in C# or any .NET language. There's of course the Go Operator SDK, and there's our Java Operator SDK, so why not hav...

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    Container Solutions Does Hacktoberfest!

    At Container Solutions HQ—or rather the distributed, mainly WFH entity that passes for Container Solutions HQ—we’re busy getting ready for Hacktoberfest. As you’re probably already aware, Hacktoberfes...

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    What We've Learned from Launching a Runbooks Project

    Back in 2017, I wrote on my personal blog about Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the World’s Busiest Gambling Sites. A lot of it focussed on runbooks, or checklists, or whatever ...