Container Platforms and Cloud

Container platforms and cloud solutions enable businesses to enhance their IT infrastructure by using containers and cloud-based services for increased flexibility, scalability, and efficiency.

Here you will find informative articles on modern technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform and more. Our experts share their knowledge of containerization, cloud infrastructures and automation solutions to keep you up to date with the latest developments. Dive into exciting topics and learn how these tools can make your workflows more efficient.

KEDA blog

Scaling Applications to Zero with Kubernetes and KEDA

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For cost reasons, it is often neither feasible nor desirable to assign enough resources to a deployment for it to be able to handle peak loads at all times. Therefore, we typically scale applications up and down based on the load they are currently facing. This usually involves a minimum number of instances deployed at any time, even if there is no load. This minimum can force us to keep more worker nodes in our Kubernetes cluster than necessary as the instances have an assigned resource budget. In this blog post, we will take a look at how to reduce the minimum amount of deployed instances to zero and discuss which kinds of applications benefit from that the most.
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Kubernetes kOps

Kubernetes kOps

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The cloud and Kubernetes belong together, right? More or less, this is the case. Although containerized applications quickly find a home environment with cloud providers, for some myterious reasons, it’s not that easy to set up a Kubernetes environment in the cloud. Unless you use kOps, the tool written exactly for this purpose. This is how it works.
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openshift foreman

Installing OpenShift through Foreman

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If you understand how to install CoreOS, you can also install OpenShift 4. You can provision CoreOS hosts using Foreman. In his talk at the Config Management Camp 2023, Jan explained how to do so, what obstacles there are, and how to use this solution to deploy an OpenShift cluster.
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container building with kaniko

Container building with Kaniko

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This blog article is about creating OCI-compatible container images. Besides the standard tools docker, buildah and podman you can also use Kaniko. We briefly explain here how to do that.
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