Shadow-Soft is proud to introduce nine new technical courses that aim to equip engineers with the skills and knowledge they need to tackle real-world challenges.

The implementation of Ansible increased productivity and eliminated bottlenecks. Previously it would take up to six hours of manual effort to do server configuration. With the work Shadow-Soft did to implement robust automation, this now takes 30...

This course provides an in-depth understanding of Kubernetes and its applications in various industries. You will learn about the benefits of automation and scalability in handling unpredictable demand.

SongSplits engaged Shadow-Soft to assist them with an app modernization project. The company wanted to modernize its application to improve scalability and optimize costs.

NewSci’s “Call Simulator™” platform provides AI-powered speech-to-speech call simulations to decrease the cost of training call center agents and increase their effectiveness and retention. From E911 to telemedicine, Call Simulator™ brings the...

CyGlass engaged Shadow-Soft for help with planning and building its next-generation architecture on AWS. The company wanted to make better use of containerization and container orchestration tools to control infrastructure costs and improve...

In an effort to bring more value to customers, OneBridge embarked on an initiative to improve the way it delivered account statements and other daily correspondences to its customers. The company had been relying heavily on a 3rd-party print vendor...

Automation teams, get ready for a major upgrade. Red Hat recently unveiled Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant, a game-changing new capability that leverages generative AI to transform how automation teams work.

Learn about the need for a new security framework, the "4 C's" framework for thinking through security considerations.

Learn how to deploy and configure Vault in a Kubernetes cluster, integrate Vault with Kubernetes, store secrets in Vault, manage access control, create roles and service accounts in Kubernetes, and more.

Learn how to export and update worker node machinesets, deploy new nodes, create machinesets for multi-zone clusters, move components to infrastructure nodes, and validate the successful migration of components.

Learn about the building blocks of Crossplane, how to extend it with packages, and how to choose the right tool for infrastructure provisioning.

learn how to install and configure Skupper and Neuvector, create virtual application networks, deploy Neuvector on AKS clusters, configure multi-cluster management, create federation policies and groups, manage network rules and traffic, and...

learn how to install and configure Skupper and Neuvector, create virtual application networks, deploy Neuvector on AKS clusters, configure multi-cluster management, create federation policies and groups, manage network rules and traffic, and...

This comprehensive course provides a deep dive into the world of Kubernetes. It covers everything from the basic concepts of containers and Kubernetes, to advanced topics such as workload scheduling, taints, tolerations, and deployments.

Learn how to deploy Longhorn on a Kubernetes cluster, configure backup targets, use Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) in Longhorn, install MinIO for replication purposes, and troubleshoot common issues.

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Shadow-Soft, open-source system integrators and Kubernetes experts, enthusiastically applaud the recent CRN software news report about Gartner research projecting a substantial 12 percent increase in IT services spending for the year 2024.

This project involves the implementation of a Virtual Application Network in an Azure cloud environment.

Juju Dashboard features vs. Rancher

Longhorn is an open-source distributed block storage system designed to provide persistent storage for containerized environments, particularly Kubernetes clusters

This document will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of leveraging Move2Kube to migrate your applications to Kubernetes.

Crossplane is a framework for building cloud-native control planes without writing code.

Dive into the key differences between deploying MicroK8s, a Kubernetes distribution, and Rancher Desktop, which utilizes K3s, to create local Kubernetes environments.

Shadow-Soft, a leading systems integrator, proudly announces a remarkable achievement in the first half of 2023 with record-breaking revenue growth. This milestone comes at a pivotal moment in the technology landscape as the industry undergoes...

The technical exploration of monitoring a cloud infrastructure that hinges upon the technology of Skupper, integrated with the power of Neuvector.

The Vault Kubernetes Advanced Workshop will teach you how to deploy, configure, integrate, and use Vault with Kubernetes in advanced ways.

This course will introduce you to the basics of using HashiCorp Vault in Kubernetes: how to deploy Vault in Kubernetes, configure Vault for use with Kubernetes, integrate Vault with Kubernetes, and use Vault in your Kubernetes applications.

Vault Kubernetes is an intermediate-level course that teaches you how to deploy, configure, and integrate Vault with Kubernetes.

Kubernetes intensive automation requires a new framework to secure disparate applications, databases, networks, and storage components.

Kubernetes Technical Foundational Guide

If the only constant in business is change, a close second is the resistance to that change.

Shadow-Soft, a leading systems integrator, proudly announces a remarkable achievement in the first half of 2023 with record-breaking revenue growth. This milestone comes at a pivotal moment in the technology landscape as the industry undergoes...

If the only constant in business is change, a close second is the resistance to that change.

CentOS, a popular Linux distribution, is reaching end-of-life in June 2024. This presents a challenge for businesses that use CentOS, but it also presents an opportunity to improve their IT infrastructure.

If the only constant in business is change, a close second is the resistance to that change.

Shadow-Soft announces a significant breakthrough in enterprise infrastructure agility leveraging Kubernetes to enable true cross-environment scalability, seamless mobility, and embedded multi-layered security.

If the only constant in business is change, a close second is the resistance to that change.

If the only constant in business is change, a close second is the resistance to that change.

Working in IT is not for the faint of heart. At times, your job can feel like the myth of Sisyphus, repeatedly pushing a boulder up a hill. Particularly when you are trying to make infrastructure changes without interrupting daily operations.

Shadow-Soft, a leading Kubernetes systems integrator, is helping retailers deal with fluctuating demand, fragmented supply chains, and labor turnover which can improve customer experiences inside and outside of stores.  

Working in IT is not for the faint of heart. At times, your job can feel like the myth of Sisyphus, repeatedly pushing a boulder up a hill. Particularly when you are trying to make infrastructure changes without interrupting daily operations.

Getting budget approval is always a pain. Only a “silver bullet” like AI can command millions in investment with no specific deliverable requirements.  And it really gets on a CEO’s radar when someone like Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO, voiced…

Cyber attacks happen every 39 seconds costing trillions of dollars, requiring a new security framework from Cloud to Cluster to Container to Code. ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, May 2, 2023 — Shadow-Soft, a Kubernetes system integrator, is drawing...

There are three reasons digital transformations don’t happen. People don’t know where to start, don’t know the proven path, and don’t have the people they need. And the harsh reality is that without that knowledge, your transformation is going to…

This month is National Stress Awareness Month with a specific focus on anxiety. What could possibly be more anxiety producing than the Deloitte “CFO Signals” report that found only 29% of CFOs say this is a good time to take…

It’s an oh-so-familiar scenario. Your organization is embracing a “cloud first” initiative, and you are part of the engineering team that is responsible for supporting the new hybrid environment. It’s Friday afternoon; you’re heading home, and you...

Shadow-Soft Relieves Stresses In Kubernetes Environments With New Diagnostic Framework ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, April 4, 2023 — April marks Stress Awareness Month, a time to focus on the importance of managing stress and relieving anxiety. In...

Discover. Scope. Define. Develop. Test. Validate. Blah, blah, blah. While there is value in thinking through how to modernize your environment, too often the processes lead to Analysis Paralysis. Nothing gets done and people get frustrated. “If you...

Doing “more with less” is a chronic problem for IT professionals. But it’s gotten worse. And it’s not just Amazon, Meta, Oracle, and Microsoft that are downsizing. Your company probably has a resource shortage too. Research from Qualtrics shows the…

Shadow-Soft, Kubernetes systems integrator, announces record revenues for 2022, driven by Kubernetes deployments in manufacturing, logistics, retail, and finance. ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, March 8, 2023 — Shadow-Soft, a leading Kubernetes systems...

  Too often IT is asked for “Digital Transformation” or building capabilities at a “Moment of Truth” or creating an “Omnichannel 360° Customer View.” That sounds great, but what does that mean? And who can do all that? McKinsey &…

Kubernetes is quickly becoming the go-to platform for container orchestration, and for a good reason. It allows organizations to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications in a highly-available and resilient manner. However, as Kubernetes...

Shadow-Soft is excited to announce the launch of Kubernetes Academy, a free online education platform to teach the skills needed to become proficient in Kubernetes, the leading open source container orchestration system.

Introduction At the end of 2017 Kubernetes had won the container orchestration wars. Rival container orchestration platforms had transitioned to instead providing managed service offerings of Kubernetes. There were and are multiple powerful and...

Introduction Packer is the industry standard tool for managing machine image artifacts. It is also essentially the “only game in town”. It supports a variety of platforms and provisioners for sophisticated management of various sources and builds...

The typical workflow design pattern for server provisioning is to create instance image artifacts, and then provision infrastructure, and then provision software and configuration unique to the instance. There may also be a desire to independently...

Introduction I can still recall with clarity from over a decade ago when one of my job responsibilities was ensuring the source control management, building, packaging, quality assurance, delivery, and release of an enormous monolithic software tool...

Introduction In August of 2005, Luke Kanies created Puppet because he was tired of remembering how the different package management systems worked, and wanted to unify them into a single interface. In February of 2012, Michael DeHaan created Ansible...

Introduction Most people familiar with the Kubernetes scheduler algorithm are aware of the basic mathematical concepts around its logic. Anyone who has also pursued an interest in learning about it at a low level is aware of its relation to…

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault is the industry standard for secrets management. In version 1.4 of Vault, the integrated storage backend supplied by Raft was promoted from beta to general availability. This Raft integrated storage backend has...

Introduction Recently I was asked once again to build out Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, and deploy and configure supporting software, and then migrate a client’s QA environment and applications to the cluster. This was all to be completed in a...

Introduction Terraform is the industry standard tool for infrastructure provisioning. It provides a unified language for interacting with any supported API. This enables developers to interact with a variety of platforms via knowledge of Terraform,...

Introduction Terraform is the industry standard tool for infrastructure provisioning. It provides a unified language for interacting with any supported API. This enables developers to interact with a variety of platforms via knowledge of Terraform,...

IT has arrived as an essential expenditure to producing revenue for an organization. Almost everything is a software expenditure. We buy hardware to run applications that run our businesses. We invest in the cloud as an alternative to run...

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault has become the industry standard tool for secrets management. It comes packaged with multiple solutions for engines supporting various authentication methods, secrets integrations, and storage. However, not every...

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault has become the industry standard tool for secrets management. It comes packaged with multiple solutions for engines supporting various authentication methods, secrets integrations, and storage. However, not every...

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault has become the industry standard tool for secrets management. It comes packaged with multiple solutions for engines supporting various authentication methods, secrets integrations, and storage. However, not every...

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault has become the industry standard tool for secrets management. It comes packaged with multiple solutions for engines supporting various authentication methods, secrets integrations, and storage. However, not every...

Introduction Hashicorp’s Vault has become the industry standard tool for secrets management. It comes packaged with multiple solutions for engines supporting various authentication methods, secrets integrations, and storage. However, not every...

As corporations continue to deal with patching and updating their systems to deal with log4shell, there are many systems which will become quite a challenge. As the vast majority of you are already aware, a new series of vulnerabilities came…

DevOps describes a culture and set of processes that bring development and operations teams together to complete software development projects at a faster pace.

This guide focuses on you, the IT operator, presenting Shadow-Soft’s point of view on the topic of Kubernetes. Throughout the guide, you’ll learn more about why the business wants Kubernetes, why IT operations wants Kubernetes, and why Red Hat...

Terraform is the industry standard for infrastructure provisioning. One of its core strengths is its capability to abstract all APIs into a common interface through its DSL. The software plugin which brokers these APIs to the Terraform DSL is a...

Jenkins Pipeline is the industry standard for developing pipelines to automate workflows, integrations, and deployments. In this article, we will explore an end-to-end pipeline that begins with building a Docker image for an application, and ends...

Containers are highly efficient vehicles for developing and deploying apps. As container usage ramps up, the complexity of managing containers across the totality of your IT infrastructure rises exponentially – making a container management platform...

Thinking about containers? Chances are you’ve been considering a way to manage the development and operations surrounding them and likely have evaluated OpenShift as the platform to do just that.

While Terraform is great solution for creating resources, you need a way to monitor these resources and ensure that they are created according to the standards of our organization. This is where policy enforcement with Sentinel can help.

Ansible is a fantastic automation software tool, but automation is even better when it is running as fast as it can. These tips will help you significantly speed up your Ansible development, testing, and execution, so you can make better use of your...

We have identified four cloud migration models, based on the way different companies want to use the cloud. Finding the model that matches your goals is the first step to a successful migration.