Category: Cloud

AWS
Cloud
August 1, 2019

CI/CD with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is compatible with the majority of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools which allows developers to run tests, deploy builds in Kubernetes and update applications with no downtime. One of the most popular CI/CD tools now is Jenkins. This article will focus on configuring a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Helm on Kubernetes. Jenkins CI/CD Tool for […]

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Cloud
July 30, 2019

Deploy and Manage Applications on a Kubernetes Cluster

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is a container management technology developed by Google Labs to manage containerized applications in different kinds of environments across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure. It is an open source system which helps to create and manage containerization of the application. Prerequisites We assume anyone who wants to understand Kubernetes should have an […]

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AWS
Cloud
Datastax
NoSQL
May 28, 2019

How to create a simple Cassandra Cluster on AWS

What is Cassandra? Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed wide column store NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Wikipedia Apache Cassandra is a high performance, extremely scalable, fault tolerant (i.e. no single point of failure), distributed post-relational database solution. Cassandra […]

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Cloud
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
Tips & Tricks
November 12, 2018

Terraform – Orchestration Automation on Any Cloud

Provisioning cloud platform resources is never as simple as AWS and other cloud service providers claim. Especially in hybrid or multi-cloud models creating cloud resources consistently is not always straightforward. Even when a only a single cloud provider is being used, a businesses’ demands for cloud infrastructure are rarely static. New operational requirements may call […]

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Business
Cloud
August 13, 2018

A New World for Cloud MSPs

A Multi-Cloud Centric Approach to Managed Services A Trend Toward Hybrid Over the years we have noticed several trends that reshaped the IT Managed Services industry and market we find ourselves in. From very traditional on premises data center management and system administration, to organizations jumping the gun and moving everything into the cloud – […]

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Business
Cloud
February 14, 2018

Choosing the Right Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for 2018: Things to Consider

Choosing a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) isn’t easy. Much like finding and falling in love with a significant other, selecting and committing to the correct CSP can be like a marriage; with all the risks and benefits. Therefore it is important for companies to make carefully considered decisions when choosing a CSP as a partner […]

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Cloud
Tips & Tricks
November 20, 2017

ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID invalid certificate authority error. Ignore it?

Almost any web based tool in the office will have it. And we ignore it by default, without thinking about it. And it was ok to do so. Before cloud days. NOT ANYMORE… Lets think about it for a bit. Before Cloudwe connected to all of these web (https) based tools via Intranet, internal network. In […]

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Cloud
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
September 26, 2017

Install oracle bmcs (oraclebmc-cli)

Here is a quick example how to install Oracle Braremetal cloud cli on MacOS or Linux.Please note what oracle just renamed Braremetal cloud to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) First thing first – python. I recommend to start with Python 3.6 or later. Oracle says python 2 is also supported, but when I tried bmcs installed […]

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