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Why You Should Design Your Cloud Architecture to Be Vendor-Agnostic

Vendor-agnostic design ensures that organizations can migrate between cloud providers or move to private clouds with minimal disruption, offering freedom and flexibility in managing their infrastructure.

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Getting Started with DevSecOps

Integrating security into every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is crucial to ensure that vulnerabilities are identified and addressed early, preventing potential breaches and attacks in the future.

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Migrate from Public Cloud: Building Kubernetes Bare-Metal Infrastructure

With increasing cloud costs and the growing need for control over infrastructure, many organizations are exploring on-premises solutions. For us, the solution was Kubernetes on bare-metal servers—a challenging but rewarding journey

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5 Principles of Cyber Security Architecture

In our increasingly digital world, cybersecurity is not just a luxury but a necessity. As we rely on digital assets and online infrastructures to manage information, store sensitive data, and run essential services, these systems become prime targets for cybercriminals.

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Ceph: Modern Distributed Cloud Native Storage Solution

Ceph is an open-source distributed storage system designed to provide a unified solution for object, block, and file storage

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Longhorn: Cloud Native Cloud Storage Solution from Rancher for Kubernetes

As organizations embrace containerization and cloud-native architectures, the demand for robust, persistent storage solutions within Kubernetes environments grows rapidly. One of the standout solutions in this space is Longhorn

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K3s: Lightweight Kubernetes for Single Sever, Edge and IoT Deployments

Kubernetes has become the de facto solution for orchestrating containerized applications in cloud and data center environments. One such solution is k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution developed by Rancher Labs

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MetalLB: A Load Balancer for Bare Metal Kubernetes Clusters

MetalLB has quickly become a vital tool for organizations running Kubernetes clusters in bare-metal environments

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Talos Linux: The Linux Distro that brings you Kubernetes on Bare Metal

Talos Linux, developed by Sidero Labs, addresses these challenges by providing a minimalistic, secure, and immutable operating system explicitly designed to run Kubernetes efficiently on bare metal

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Vagrant: Create Modern Development Environments

Vagrant, a tool designed to create and manage virtualized development environments, has become a cornerstone for many developers seeking to streamline their workflows

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Docker Swarm: The Simplest Container Orchestrator

Docker Swarm is a native clustering and orchestration tool for Docker containers.

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LXD & LXC: Linux Container to rule them all

In recent years, containerization has revolutionized the way software is developed, deployed, and managed. Containers offer lightweight, isolated environments that enable applications to run consistently across various environments, making them an attractive alternative to traditional VM

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Packer: Automate Image Creation in for Cloud

Packer is designed to simplify the creation of machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

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Ansible: The Powerful Configuration Management

Designed to facilitate the automation of configuration management, application deployment, and task automation, Ansible has become a cornerstone of modern IT practices

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Pulumi: The Real Infrastructure as Code

Over the years, several IaC tools have emerged, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Among these, Pulumi has gained significant attention for its unique approach and capabilities.

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Vault: Install The Most Advance Secret Manager on Kubernetes

With cyber threats on the rise, organizations must prioritize robust secrets management to protect their critical information. HashiCorp Vault emerges as a leading solution, offering a comprehensive platform to manage secrets and ensure data security.

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Atlantis: Install GitOps for Terraform on Kubernetes

As organizations scale, manually executing Terraform commands becomes cumbersome, error-prone, and inefficient. This is where Atlantis comes into play

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Introducing Cockpit, a Project Dashboard from 8grams

During our software development business, there has always been one thing that has consistently posed a challenge for us, which is how to monitor the progress of multiple projects simultaneously

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Build Complete Google Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure using Terraform

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to provision a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment entirely using Terraform.

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Kong: How to Install Open Source Kong with Database on Kubernetes

Kong is an API gateway that offers flexibility in how it's deployed, which is crucial in managing and routing API requests in modern software architectures.

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RethinkDB: Install Open Source Database for Realtime Apps on Kubernetes

RethinkDB is an innovative database system designed primarily for applications that need real-time updates.

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Buildpacks: Transform Application Source Code into Image

Buildpacks are essentially tools or scripts used in cloud-native development, primarily serving the purpose of transforming your application source code into a container image.

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GitHub Action: Integrated CI/CD Platform for the Entire Software Development Lifecycle

GitHub Actions is a comprehensive and flexible automation platform within GitHub that allows users to automate their software development workflows directly in their GitHub repositories.

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Tekton: Build Simple Build Pipeline using Kubernetes Native CI/CD Tools

Tekton is an open-source project that provides Kubernetes-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines.

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Kaniko: Kubernetes Native Daemonless Docker Image Builder

Kaniko is an open-source tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, often used within Kubernetes environments.