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. […]
The Cloud and Business Continuity
During the current crisis, businesses across the world are putting their continuity plans into action. With large numbers of the work force being forced to stay at home, it is vital to allow employees to work from home. In this modern age, it is simpler for employees to do this using communication tools such as […]
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 […]
Kubernetes 1.16 – Unlimited Breadsticks for all!
Kubernetes 1.16 was released on 19th September and includes a raft of new features as well as some very important deprecation changes. Off the back of the CNCFs Security Audit there is a raft of security improvements closing 4 CVE’s and improving items like TLS between services and the security poster from escalating privileges. Enhancements […]
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 […]
Containers are Coming: The Rise of Container-powered Streaming.
Game of Thrones Season 8 is well underway, with ferocious dragons, an abundance of questionable sexual-tension, and more exciting plot-twists than ever. On April 14th, viewers across the globe tuned-in to see the latest action of Westeros, with HBO estimating that 17.4 million people watched this season’s premiere on their streaming and linear platforms. But […]
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 […]
