Kubernetes Cold Start Applications Using Istio, Kubernetes and Prometheus to build dynamically scaling infrastructure that can scale unused workloads to zero.
Istio Istio: 503's with UC's and TCP Fun Times 503 errors are commonly seen by Istio users, but it's a bit of a catch-all error code. This blog helps you debug them using tcpdump and istio-proxy logs
GCP Managing your costs on Kubernetes I've been doing quite a lot of work around managing cost in Public Cloud recently, specifically with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform. One of the key topics of conversation that always gets brought up during on-prem/private cloud to public cloud migrations is cost. There is generally a
Nginx Creating an OpenWAF solution with Nginx, ElasticSearch and ModSecurity Creating an OpenWAF solution using NGINX, ElasticSearch and ModSecurity.
Docker Securing microservices in the Enterprise I've had a couple of really interesting conversations over the past few months about the complexities of deploying microservices in typical large enterprises, so decided to take some time to pull my thoughts together. Before we start however, I want to ground some terminology: * Microservice: Everyone loves a
AWS Serverless vs Kubernetes Serverless vs Kubernetes, and why I think they're trying to achieve the same thing - virtualised infrastructure abstraction.
Kubernetes NGinx Lua scripting to reload configuration Bear with me... I know the first thing you're probably thinking is "why the hell would he want to do that?!", well, let me explain... I was recently building a horizontally scalable deployment of NGinx pods [https://github.com/Stono/docker-nginx-letsencrypt] on kubernetes. They had shared
Docker Using Docker containers as Systemd services If you've read any of my recent posts, you'll know I've recently swithed from MacOSX to Linux. One of the things this has done is made me realise just how much stuff I had installed with brew on MacOSX - for example; Redis [https:
Docker Fuse filesystem mount in Kubernetes The Use Case I have been thinking about this problem for a while now. I have an NGinx container/pod, that use LetsEncrypt [https://letsencrypt.org/] for automatic SSL certificate generation (See my container [https://github.com/Stono/docker-nginx-letsencrypt] over on Github). In short, when the container starts - it
Docker Big Data, Small Cloud I have decided to learn about data, Big Data, really Big Data in fact. It's going to be an adventure, and this is your invitation. The pretext I was at the GCP Next '16 conference in London towards the end of last year, watching Reza Rokni, GCP
Node.JS Free SSL Certificates with LetsEncrypt and Docker Everyone loves security, yeah?! Up until recently, it's cost a fair whack of money to use SSL certificates on your website. This has been a barrier for a lot of smaller website, which subsequently leaves them vulnerable to common attacks such as man in the middle. Then comes