IncludeOS now has a routing firewall built into it. It is, like everything else we do, implemented in C++. Initially, we thought we would write firewall and routing rules in C++. Writing code isn’t ideal however, as people aren’t interested in programming…

Ansible and Docker

Ansible is one of the de facto standards for IT automation, and this automation is an essential component of modernization and digital transformation. Today, we’ll see how to au...

A service portfolio solves a significant DevOps problem – it helps both the service provider and the business to understand and agree on the “why.” See how.

Sound familiar?

We always had our local development environments setup with Docker on top of Vagrant. While this has worked out just fine, the overhead of building and maintaining them started to increase significantly.

Presentation deck from the IT in the Park conference, Edinburgh, UK - November 28th 2017

The 3-tier support structure is ubiquitous in ITSM, but it is fundamentally at odds with DevOps principles. Swarming is a better answer.

As the role of the Site Reliability Engineer grows in software shops, we look at the habits and traits essential for career success.

Let’s talk about deployments. This topic used to be considered an uninteresting implementation detail, but is now becoming a fundamental element for modern systems. I feel like everyone understand its importance, and is working to build solutions around it…

How do you know if you should introduce a new technology? Here are some questions to ask and precautions to take when implementing a new tech stack.

The incomplete Dirty COW patch

Grabbing the Golden Ring-0

Part of the How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals Series

News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right?

We have all seen the typical tutorial demonstrating how easy it is to deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS using Kops. It’s almost a…

In this article you'll see how to run a PDP-11 simulator through Docker to interact with Unix as it was back in 1972.

If an overwhelming to do list is keeping you from getting things done, adopt these Agile prioritization techniques to reignite your productivity and motivation.

It hasn’t been all cat memes and smooth PR’s. I’ve learned loads of information in my first few months and now I’d like to share a small…

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed service and certified Kubernetes conformant to run Kubernetes on AWS and on-premises.