Cloud agnostic automation and Terraform
Interesting post with best practices on using Terraform for cloud agnostic automation: https://spacelift.io/blog/terraform-best-practices
Egress filtering: you need it!
Security in IT utilises the concept of “assume that you have been breached”. This means that applications and their related infrastructure should be setup in such a way that the impact of a real breach is minimised by making life difficult once an attacker has broken through the defences. Earlier, enablement of infrastructure had months …
Why build your own multi-cloud developer platform?
Multi-cloud, combined with Kubernetes (K8s) container technology offers an interesting approach for financials to accelerate innovation. Best practices for solutions of this kind can be found in other industries. A cross-platform approach when building a self-service environment for product teams ensures long-term flexibility. Another pointer is that it may be important that standardization is encouraged …
Every company is a technology company, but most don’t behave like one
In 2011, Marc Andreesen famously wrote a Wall Street Journal essay declaring that “software is eating the world.” Five years later, the five largest companies in the world by market capitalization are all software companies. A great article via TechCrunch
The Last Frontier in the Software-Defined Data Center
A very nice article on Software-Defined Data Centers@ DevOps.com OpenFlow protocol primer: Looking under the hood
Engineering is all about experimenting
Today I started building my homelab server. I did this based on the blog post of the Packetpushers. I want this server to be able to run ESXi (6) hypervisor as hypervisor and be cool and quiet. Will keep you posted on the progress 😉 Until now my bill of materials is as follows: Case: …
Azure: Automate Linux VM Customization Tasks Using CustomScript Extension
What a nice addition to the already available automation features in Azure, check: The Azure Blog.
The Secret to Amazons Success Internal APIs
In 2011 there was an accidental post from a Google employee about Google+. The internal rant was accidentally shared publicly and provides some insight into how Google approached APIs for their new Google + platform, as well as insight how Amazon adopted an internal service oriented architecture (SOA). The insight about how Google approached the …
Quick: DigitalOcean
In my search for good cloud providers I touched upon Microsoft’s Azure (as posted earlier) but also found DigitalOcean, a provider that promises simple cloud hosting, built for developers that can deploy a new SSD based cloud server in approximately 55 seconds. Ofcourse this an interesting challenge, so I tried it and it works! One …
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