Oct
11,
2023
Kubernetes, Cloud, & Security
Kubernetes is a cloud-native technology and can be comfortably combined with other cloud services. Besides the classic self-managed variant, managed Kubernetes services like AWS EKS, Google GKE, or Azure AKS also shine due to their simple deployment and management and are enjoying increasing acceptance. However, this symbiosis also comes with some security risks that are often severely underestimated due to the isolated view of Kubernetes and the embedded cloud context.
Mar
31,
2021
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra — Part 3
Part 3: Data on Kubernetes Served with Love
What can we accomplish as a community when we work together? If the Apache Cassandra community is any proof, quite a bit. We’ve built a pretty amazing database over the past 10+ years. We’ve also helped each other when learning how to run large scale distributed systems and we’ve been busy lately! I want to tell you about something to make your cloud-native data easy. A complete solution for Cassandra and Kubernetes that we are calling K8ssandra [1]. A collection of everything needed to run Cassandra wrapped up neatly in a Helm [2] chart.
What can we accomplish as a community when we work together? If the Apache Cassandra community is any proof, quite a bit. We’ve built a pretty amazing database over the past 10+ years. We’ve also helped each other when learning how to run large scale distributed systems and we’ve been busy lately! I want to tell you about something to make your cloud-native data easy. A complete solution for Cassandra and Kubernetes that we are calling K8ssandra [1]. A collection of everything needed to run Cassandra wrapped up neatly in a Helm [2] chart.
Mar
10,
2021
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra – Part 2
Managing data at scale is a big challenge. Aside from simply having lots of data, we have to be able to use it effectively over time. How we index our data can make it easier to use, but that indexing approach can evolve over time based on what we want to achieve and how our use cases change too.
XDR: The Next Generation of Endpoint Security
The history of endpoint security has gone through many stages. Yet, in 2021, our tools and processes are no longer necessarily appropriate to the threats. A new generation is needed to address current threats. One possible solution is XDR - Extended Detection and Response.
Dec
7,
2020
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra – Part 1
Over the past twenty years, there have been several big trends in distributed computing. Today, we have more developers using microservices designs to decompose applications into smaller and more manageable units. Apache Cassandra was built for cloud data and is now becoming the choice of developers for cloud native applications.
Feb
25,
2020
Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes with GitLab CI
After the first steps with containers have been taken, you might want to bring your application clean, stable and continuous into a production environment. In his session at the DevOpsCon 2019, Alexander Trost shows how GitLab CI can be used to continuously deploy applications on Kubernetes.
Oct
1,
2019
Kubernetes: Role-based Access Control (RBAC) in the enterprise
Since version 1.8, Kubernetes has had role-based access control (RBAC). In his session at the DevOpsCon 2019, Jan Bruder introduces the audience to the basics of authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) in Kubernetes.
Jan
26,
2018
Kubernetes basics: How to build up-to-date (container) applications
A system such as Kubernetes can be viewed from different angles. Some think of it in terms of infrastructure, as the successor to OpenStack, although the infrastructure is cloud-agnostic. For others, it is a platform which makes it easier to orchestrate microservice architectures — or cloud-native architectures, as they are called nowadays — to deploy applications more easily, plus making them more resilient and scalable.