How to Set Up Jenkins on Kubernetes

This guide will walk you through the process of setting up Jenkins on Kubernetes. Jenkins is a widely-used open source CI server that provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating your projects.

Automatically scan your Docker images for vulnerabilities with AWS ECR

When using Docker to run applications security is a major concern, but it can sometimes be easy to forget as we focus first on functionality. This doesn’t need to be the case, as AWS Elastic Container…

Deploying Secure Firecracker MicroVMs on K8s using Weave FireKube

Introduction

Deploy your C++ Lambda with Docker

So this blog is about How You Can Use Your C++ Runtime In Your Lambda Function. AWS Lambda allows us to use our app with serverless architecture. As an addition to all the available runtimes in AWS Lambda, AWS announced Custom Runtimes at Re:Invent 2018. They released…

How to route traffic to your Docker container in AWS ECS using an Application Load Balancer

Deploying containers into AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is straight-forward, especially when using CloudFormation. Once you’ve got a basic ECS cluster deployed, it’s…

Docker Swarm and Shared Storage Volumes

As we know, volumes provide a flexible and powerful way to add persistent storage to managed dockers, but what should we do if we want to share storage volumes across several Docker hosts, for instance, a Swarm cluster? In this topic, we will consider a simple…

Provisioning real-time performance monitoring with Netdata

Introduction

It goes without saying that implementing some type of metrics solution is an often neglected part of any organization’s digital transformation strategy. That said, not all solutions…

Sysdig: What It Is and How to Use It

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with support for containers . What makes Sysdig special, is that it hooks itself into the machine’s kernel and segregates the information on a per-container basis.
For the scope of this tutorial, we will focus on the…

EFK stack on Kubernetes (Part 1)

This is the first post of the 2 part series where we will set-up production grade Kubernetes logging for applications deployed in the cluster and the cluster itself. We will be using Elasticsearch as the logging backend for this. The Elasticsearch set-up will be extremely…