Continuous deployment on the open source software Gitlab and Kubernetes provides a number of benefits to application developers or anyone that treats infrastructure as code. Robert Starmer, CTO of Kumulus Technologies, breaks down the value proposition of implementing a Gitlab-based CICD model that is moveable across cloud platforms whether you …
Understanding CICD: Continuous Integration/ Deployment/ Delivery
You’ve worked with software development and explored any sort of automation, you’ve certainly come across the acronyms CI and CD. While the CI, continuous integration, aspect is fairly well understood by software developers as a part of the development process, CD is more mysterious. In part, this is because it …
Cloud Adoption Strategy: Public Cloud or Private Cloud?
Many companies only consider the public cloud model when considering a digital (cloud) transformation. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO and Founder, Robert Starmer, argues that there are cases when a private cloud will provide greater value to your business. Robert takes a closer look at some of the assumptions that …
The Pitfalls in Cloud Adoption
We all tend to be dazzled by the bright and shiny new things, rushing to the adoption of a new technology due to a perception of fast and easy returns on minimal investment. It’s been said that hope is not a strategy, yet when it comes to implementing cloud-based technologies many …
NoOps – Is this the Future of DevOps?
NoOps – as in “No Operations” – has been suggested as next step in the evolution of DevOps. DevOps, after all, in some minds, freed application developers from the shackles of IT overlords that stingily doled out hardware resources. This was good, but managing infrastructure is not what devs really …
Istio – Service Mesh for Kubernetes and Cloud-native Systems
Microservices, especially cloud-native, container-based microservices have radically changed how applications are built and deployed. This shift has been driven by a number of positives that container-based microservices provide (eg. speed, portability, …). However, traditional monitoring tools don’t’ work with these new systems. The service mesh concept (and in particular the …
A look at container security assumptions and realities.
Many people are still parroting the “containers are fundamentally insecure” mantra while clearly not understanding the current state of the container development state. Since the start of the Docker-driven container revival, a host of useful tools have been developed to enhance container security. Nowadays, the larger security risks when deploying …
2018 Vancouver OpenStack Summit – Its Not Just About OpenStack Anymore
If you’ve had a feeling that OpenStack was possibly not the star of its own show anymore, comparatively lackluster attendance, snarky tweets and a plethora of container-related talks may have confirmed it for you at this May’s Vancouver OpenStack summit. This disturbance in the force is perhaps tellingly reflected in …
Sydney OpenStack Summit Container Presentations for Cloud Operators
The 2017 Sydney OpenStack Summit is a wrap and once again, there was an amazing amount of great content being presented on multiple tracks. Thankfully, the Sydney Open Stack Summit organizers and the OpenStack Foundation once again did a solid job of not just capturing these presentations on video, but …
Multicloud? More than a new name for hybrid cloud?
Is multicloud or multi-cloud yet another piece of tech jargon or is it a strategy with actual merit? A recent article suggested that multicloud is the next step in ‘the evolution of cloud computing.’ In reality, it is a term that now appears to be regaining popularity as a cloud buzzword; yet, the …