15 Kubernetes security best practice to secure your cluster
Introduction to Kubernetes Kubernetes is now the de facto container orchestration platform deployed by businesses across the globe. In its short existence it has had incredible growth, being released in 2015 it is now the second-highest project on GitHub – second only to Linux. The huge community of support includes 1.2 million comments, 164,000 commits, […]
AWS Transit Gateways
Amazon Web Services continually improve and provide new services, with the AWS Transit Gateway service being introduced in November 2018 to allow customers to have a single gateway to connect multiple VPCs together. The benefits of using Transit Gateways are reduced administrative overhead and ease of troubleshooting, leading to improvements in the ability to scale […]
Running Kubernetes on AWS T2 Instances
Amazon’s T2 family of instances are a general type of instance that are widely used throughout the industry providing a cheap baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst when needed, these bursts however don’t last forever… So, is it a good idea to run your Kubernetes cluster on T2? The obvious upsides […]
Easily Save 80% On your AWS bill – wait, what!?
At Mobilise we’re always looking at ways to innovate and pass on savings to our customers, our most recent foray into spot instances aims to do just that. This blog will describe how, through the use of AWS Spot Instances and a piece of software called SpotInst, you can save up to 80% on your […]
Glacier Deep Archive: You have to be Out of your Mind to Manage your Own Tape Moving Forward!
Amazon Web Services have recently announced their new storage class ‘Glacier Deep Archive’ on their Simple Storage Service – S3. This storage class promises to be the lowest cost storage in the cloud, offering prices at around $0.00099 per gigabyte per month ($1 per terabyte per month)! 1st Week of GDA growing exponentially Glacier Deep […]
How to build a simple Serverless App to Send a Text Message
By Phil Reynolds The Summoner allows you to summon anyone to your location via text message. However at its core it leverages several AWS services to send a text message from a website. The Summoner was built as a learning exercise, and while building it I found that there were no basic guides on how […]
