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San Francisco, June 9-10, 2014. In the halls of the Marriott Marquis hotel, the first DockerCon is held. “Containers everywhere!” is printed on the back of event T-shirts. The first big news of DockerCon is the launch of Docker 1.0, but there is much more to come. It is the beginning of what is later […]
The Fallacies of Distributed Computing Many years ago we moved away from monolithic applications and started to develop our app as a network of smaller services, the microservice architecture. This brought many advantages and we finally had fun again developing large business applications. But we were also being introduced to the Fallacies of Distributed Computing […]
In the year 2023 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Docker and the 9th anniversary of Kubernetes. Container technology has now become mainstream. But recent advances in the Podman ecosystem prove that innovation in the container world is still happening at a strong pace. Podman 4 was released in February 2022 and brought considerable improvements […]
A quick tour of how a Kubernetes Management Platform like Red Hat OpenShift can help to ease developers day to day work and ensure security at the same time
On a rainy Thursday evening, I was looking at a lemon tree and the lengthy URL of an application that I deployed some time ago on my OpenShift cluster. And I was wondering how I can make it shorter and human readable. Creating an edge route with a custom certificate is rather simple [1]. However, […]
Overview How can we secure the integrity of our Software Supply Chains and have confidence that our software has not been tampered with and can be traced to its source? Which are the main parts of the software supply chain security? Before explaining how to secure the Software Supply Chain, we need first to understand […]
Let’s face it, eBPF is the hot topic of the day in the Linux and Kubernetes world: at KubeCon EU in Valencia it was hard to find a project not talking about it, and KubeCon US in October will probably be even more intense. And on September 28 and 29 there will be the virtual […]
tl;dr A Kubernetes-native software engineering approach for the development of AI applications helps you increase developer productivity, optimize resource consumption as well as simplify operations. A hands-on demo of this approach can be seen here. Two-step development approach The usage of an AI/ML model in an application requires basically a two-step development approach. The first […]
tl;dr To ensure application consistency for distributed (multi hybrid) cloud environments, streamline your target platform from the bottom up. This helps you dealing with the Moving Target Platform Dilemma (MTPD). As mentioned in the previous article, using the SaaS Kubernetes (K8s) offerings from cloud providers (such as EKS, AKS, GKS) causes your application services to […]
tl;dr You want to gain flexibility by leveraging the K8s offerings from multiple hyperscalers (“cloud providers”) for your application. You gain a bunch of inflexibility by assuring your application behaves equally on all these K8s target platforms. I remember the days as a Java developer when we had to ensure our applications (quite often pre-Spring […]
