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Gopal Ramachandran

Openshift

OpenShift Day 2 Ops: From the trenches

Once your OpenShift POC is successful and it is time to scale up and deliver services on production you need to focus on day 2 operations. In this blog you will find some important lessons we learnt on the job running production clusters.

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kubernetes

My first KubeCon, a recap

On the 1st week of May I visited Copenhagen to attend the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon event. My impressions of the event were much akin to that of a kid in Disneyland (or maybe

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Openshift

Observability in OpenShift with Prometheus

With the move to cloud-native application patterns it has become possible to build scalable and resilient systems that live up to modern demands. We have seen however that with this great change comes,

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cloud

Trends Inc

In the beginning of this year I wrote a blog post where I conclude that Kubernetes is evolving as the defacto standard for container orchestration. Fast forward to now and this has become

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devops

Agile/Scrum from the trenches

Since around 2011 most of the teams I worked with have followed some kind of "Agile" methodology. An year ago I joined the IT infrastructure department of an enterprise, which I

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Openshift

Exploring OpenShift with Red Hat CDK 3.0

Red Hat’s OpenShift container platform is an industry leading PaaS for building and running cloud-native applications. OpenShift is an enterprise-grade platform with comprehensive features, but this blog will limit to looking at

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cloud-native

Born in the cloud

It is 2017. Gone are the days when terms such as “cloud” and “devops” were brushed off as mere hype. Yes, in a sense these are just words, but they have come to

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devops

Book review: DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim and co

The highly anticipated DevOps Handbook, co-authored by the who’s who of DevOps – Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois and John Willis – was published this month. It is a completely non-fictional follow-up on

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devops

DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2016

DevOpsDays is a conference series with events all over the globe aimed at furthering the concepts of DevOps within the community. A dedicated group of core organizers provide advice, but the events themselves

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nodejs

Nodejs API development impressions

Recently at work I built an API+Portal solution with nodejs. Nodejs is a great way to develop api's very fast. A great place to pick up nodejs basics is here. For someone

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docker

Quick and free ghost blog hosting

Ghost is an opensource blogging platform, with beautifully simplistic themes (this website uses the default theme) and handy markdown editing with realtime preview. It is also free if you are willing to download

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devops

Software Circus Winter Wonderland

On 17 December 2015, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced its members, governance structure and the beginning of technical contributions. On the same day, I attended a very unique software event named the

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