As Microsoft Azure continues to be developed and more automation options become available; Azure Automation, Logic Apps, ARM (Azure Resource Manager) and Azure Function Apps to name a few, the question is quickly turning from ‘how do I automate with Azure?’ to ‘what automation type do I use in Azure?’. Across our next few blogs we will seek to delve into the options available and look to define how they stack up against Azure Automation.

Hey folks, been a little while since we’ve done a roundup of new & interesting pack updates. This time it’s Telegram, vSphere, Terraform, Napalm, Icinga2 and more. We’ve also been doing some background preparation work for Python 3. Read on for the full details.

AWS Lambda has a soft limit of 75GB for deployment packages for all your functions (including the layers you use). This might seem a lot, but a team that has fully embraced serverless can reach this limit very quickly.

As it is already a tradition, here we are with What’s new for Kubernetes 1.14. Here at Sysdig we follow the Kubernetes development cycle closely in order to bring you a sneak peak of the enhancements and new features that Kubernetes 1.14 will contain when released on March 25, 2019.

Calico is a popular CNI plugin for Kubernetes. It leverages Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for communicating routes available on nodes. This method fosters a highly scalable networking model between our workloads.

I started the new GuardianDevOps service to share my expertise with other engineers. I was thrilled to find an internal problem to work on as the inaugural session! Only a single day after I decided to start this service, a Blue Matador customer noticed some repetitive alerts from our agent heartbeat. I was excited to join the fray with Keilan, one of our talented engineers, and fix the problem for our customers.

Network architecture is one of the more complicated aspects of many Kubernetes installations. The Kubernetes networking model itself demands certain network features but allows for some flexibility regarding the implementation. As a result, various projects have been released to address specific environments and requirements.