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Kubernetes Drives Growth and Innovation in Financial Services

Founded in 2000, the Cardano Group is a privately-owned, purpose-built risk and investment specialist — and a financial pioneer. It is widely recognized as a market leader in the provisioning of specialized services to private-sector and collective pension programs in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Cardano has recently become the third largest retail pension provider in the UK after its recent acquisition of NOW: Pensions.

The Simplest Way to Deploy Laravel with MySQL on AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services. However, deploying an application on AWS presents some challenges.

Three Ways to Create Docker Images for Java

Long before Dockerfiles, Java developers worked with single deployment units (WARs, JARs, EARs, etc.). As you likely know by now, it is best practice to work in micro-services, deploying a small number of deployment units per JVM. Instead of one giant, monolithic application, you build your application such that each service can run on its own. This is where Docker comes in!

Enhancing Kubernetes Security with Pod Security Policies, Part 1

Kubernetes Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are a critical component of the Kubernetes security puzzle. Pod Security Policies are clusterwide resources that control security sensitive attributes of pod specification and are a mechanism to harden the security posture of your Kubernetes workloads. Kubernetes platform teams or cluster operators can leverage them to control pod creation and limit the capabilities available to specific users, groups or applications.

March 2020 Online Meetup: Automating K3s Cluster Upgrades

While developing K3s to run at the edge we had to change our assumptions about how to manage these clusters at scale. A key assumption in a data center is that you have stable network connectivity, but this may not be true at the edge. You may have unreliable cellular service or limited time during the day in which you can connect. In these environments, operations such as upgrading Kubernetes or patching an operating system require a different paradigm.

Kubernetes on AWS: EKS vs Kops

There are three popular methods for running Kubernetes on AWS: manually set up everything on EC2 instances, use Kops to manage your cluster, or use Amazon EKS to manage your cluster. Managing a Kubernetes cluster on AWS without any tooling is a complicated process that is not recommended for most administrators, so we will focus on using EKS or Kops. In this blog post, we compare cluster setup, management, and security features for both Kops and EKS to determine which solution you should use.

Kubernetes Master Class: How to implement Network Policy to secure your cluster

By default, pods are non-isolated; they accept traffic from any source. The Kubernetes solution to this security concern is Network Policy that lets developers control network access to their services. Rancher comes configured with Network Policy using Project Calico which can be used to secure your clusters. This class will describe a few use cases for network policy and a live demo implementing each use case.

Qovery permet de simplifier l'utilisation du Cloud pour les développeurs

Ce lundi 2 mars 2020, Manon Gazzotti, analyste chez X Ange, Clara Audry, Associée chez Cap Horn, Romaric Philogène, CEO & Co-fondateur de Qovery, et Pascal Ghoson, Co-fondateur de Findrive, se sont penchés sur les spécificités de Qovery et de Findrive dans l'émission Tech

Extend Fortinet FortiGate to Kubernetes with Calico Enterprise 2.7

We are excited to announce the general availability of Calico Enterprise 2.7. With this release, Fortinet’s 400,000 customers can use FortiGate to enforce network security policies into and out of the Kubernetes cluster as well as traffic between pods within the cluster.