So you have your Docker Containers deployed, which in turn are hosting critical applications of your organization? Great! So far, so good! For the interest of the organization, it remains extremely crucial to keep not only the Containers but also the hosted applications protected from security threats. By default, a...
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As we know, volumes provide a flexible and powerful way to add persistent storage to managed dockers, but what should we do if we want to share storage volumes across several Docker hosts, for instance, a Swarm cluster? In this topic, we will consider a simple method of creating shared...
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This is the first post of the 2 part series where we will set-up production grade Kubernetes logging for applications deployed in the cluster and the cluster itself. We will be using Elasticsearch as the logging backend for this. The Elasticsearch set-up will be extremely scalable and fault tolerant. 1....
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The ProblemDocker is a powerful tool, but its images can often become quite large in size, taking up disk space, but more problematically wasting valuable bandwidth as containers get deployed at scale. Therefore this post provides an overview of some methods that can be utilized to optimize Docker image sizes....
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It goes without saying that if you want to orchestrate containers at this point, Kubernetes is what you use to do it. Sure, there may be a few Docker Swarm holdouts still around, but for the most part, K8s has cemented itself as the industry standard for container orchestration solutions....
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In the last guide, you learned how to set up, install, and configure Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04. Now, you will use the Ansible to install and set Docker on a remote machine. To begin this guide, you need the following: One Ansible Control Node: You need a Ansible installed...
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Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with support for containers. What makes Sysdig special, is that it hooks itself into the machine's kernel and segregates the information on a per-container basis. For the scope of this tutorial, we will focus on the open-source version of Sysdig. In the next...
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Ansible is a Configuration Management and Application Deployment system that is designed to streamline the process of controlling a large number of servers, basically for administration and operational processes. In other words, it allows you to control several remote machines in an automated fashion from a location. Ansible uses an...
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In this article we will explore How you can use your C++ Runtime with Lambda Function. AWS Lambda allows us to use our app in a serverless architecture. As an addition to all the available runtimes in AWS Lambda, AWS announced Custom Runtimes at AWS Re:Invent 2018 where they...
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When using Docker to run applications security is a major concern, but it can sometimes be easy to forget as we focus first on functionality. This doesn't need to be the case, as AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can now be setup to automatically scan images on push, and provide...
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