Kubernetes vs Serverless Container Engines
If you haven’t read our blogs on Kubernetes yet, it may be worth going back and refreshing yourself. In this post I’d like to talk about the emergence of Serverless Container Engines and how they differ from Kubernetes. The concept of Serverless Compute Engines has been around now for roughly a year (April 2019) with […]
CI/CD approaches
Introduction Firstly, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jeff Owens. I’m a cloud consultant for Mobilise Cloud and I’ve spent a great deal of time working within large, agile cloud transformation projects. I’ve utilised various infrastructure as a code tool, the serverless framework, and helped develop container-based deployments with application teams on Kubernetes […]
CI/CD Tooling, Which is best for you?
Here at Mobilise, we have had the opportunity to work with many different CI/CD tools over the years. From client engagements to our own internal tooling. If you have just started your DevOps journey or are looking to move to a new CI/CD tool or even maybe decided to embrace GitOps as your new strategy. […]
Is DevOps for us?
I’m sure many people new to the industry will be asking themselves; what is DevOps and do I need it? These are good questions, because at the end of the day the main goal for digital businesses is to deliver their services. So why concentrate on anything else that isn’t writing code and getting your […]
Threat Modelling in a DevSecOps world
Recently on a Mobilise webinar for Building DevSecOps into your Pipelines I got asked the question ‘Can you still do threat modelling? (When using DevSecOps principals)’. Which was an interesting question where I could only give the quick answer. The answer was yes, but via the medium of blogging we can expand that further. So […]
Kubernetes Managed Services Comparison
Edit 06/03/2020: Updated to include new GKE pricing. As Kubernetes popularity has grown, more businesses have based their platform on the technology leading to Public Cloud vendors creating their own managed service offerings. Last week Amazon announced they have reduced their Elastic Kubernetes Service by 50% to $0.1 per hour. We thought it would be […]
What is Kubernetes
This post will cover the details highlighted in our Kubernetes 101 webinar. Its main focus was on the key components of modern cloud infrastructure and technologies. It will cover containers, Docker and Kubernetes. With the incredible impact that these have had and will continue to have on the industry, it is important that we share […]
Cloud Security 2019: The review and 2020 trends
Last year I wrote a blog on what security measures you should take for the cloud in 2019. Now I’m here to review if I am a CloudSec soothsayer, or if I was wide of the mark. Let’s see how I did! The Security Measures 2019 Review Don’t Presume the CSP will take full care […]
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 […]
