Kubernetes is all the rage right now for several reasons: It’s the industry standard for deploying containers in production, it’s the new go-to in managing virtualized infrastructure, developers seem to love it, and it can run any containerized application (thanks to Cynthia Harvey for organizing these thoughts). The basic architecture of Kubernetes is very cool and defines…
Richard has created a page explaining how we solve the “It Works For Me!” problem for developers, using the illustration of ships and barnacles. Read more….
Recently we worked with an amazing biotech client on an initiative to shutdown internal self-hosted systems and move all services to “the cloud”. The client requested that we convert a virtual appliance (basically a regular Linux install) to a standard Docker image. The docker images would then be run on Kubernetes on either Google Kubernetes…
Recently we built an integration between ConnectWise Manage and Slack. ConnectWise is a professional services automation platform used by thousands of IT Service Providers, handling ticketing, timesheets, projects, invoicing and more. One of the key drivers was to have our engineers focused on work instead of fighting to manage the ticket system and entering time.…
Want to know the CPU use of a container in a Kubernetes node three months from now? Want custom alerts based on thresholds or failures? Prometheus has you covered, with its powerful time series database. Here are some of the top reasons we love it: Works on everything. Different exporters allow you to gather CPU, Memory,…
Knowing what went wrong in the event of a failure is incredibly important. Elasticsearch provides storage for log level events across systems, creating a reliable and redundant way to store, search, and query critical system events. Here are the top reasons we use it: Open source and well documented. Elasticsearch has a great community of…
With many diverse server systems to deploy, configure, and maintain for our clients, it is important to have a Managed Configuration and Orchestration platform. There are many different systems in this space like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and Salt Stack. We use and have used many of them, but the preferred system that we love…
Container based micro-service deployment has been a logical evolution of better managing large software systems and getting the most out of your server resources. The platform we recommend for managing our clients container/microservice infrastructure is Kubernetes (K8S). The top 3 reasons we love Kubernetes: It is Open Source, and vendor neutral. Kubernetes (K8S) can manage…
Jenkins is a core part of our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for our clients. Here are the top 3 reasons we love Jenkins: It is an open system that is platform, language, and methodology agnostic allowing us to support our diverse client base with one non-proprietary CI/CD platform. It is the industry…
As a team we have many years of experience using a plethora of different solutions for storing code. Everything from paid solutions like Jira and Bitbucket, all the way to hand-written custom solutions to store assembler code. In the end, we’ve settled on Gitlab as a great industry standard solution for all our clients. Among the many reasons,…