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 OpenShift is the enterprise-ready solution many IT operations teams are recommending to their organizations.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is making his second big acquisition with GitHub for $7.5 billion. Read on to learn the why this happened and how this might impact you. GitHub is the largest code repository in the world, hosting…
Cloud infrastructure has been around long enough that IT professionals like myself have several stories to tell and a few battle wounds to show. In this article, I share the lessons that fellow customers, colleagues, and I have learned as…
Configuration management has completely changed the landscape regarding how we provision and maintain our working environments. Before, environments were painstakingly configured by hand and what worked in development didn’t always work in production. It could take hours if not days…
Deploying a Private Docker Registry If you are familiar with Docker, then surely you have at least heard of the concept of private registries. Out of the box, Docker talks directly to the public registry (Docker Hub) which is great…
If you have ever played around with Jenkins, I’m sure you have realized there are a tremendous amount of plugins out there. However, I haven’t successfully found a list of decent tutorials for doing the most basic things within Jenkins.…
In recent months, Microsoft has made some tremendous strides in improving the overall user experience for administrators working with the Azure Cloud Platform. As I have transitioned from AWS over to Microsoft Azure, I have quickly learned how easy it…
In the world of containers, there are a growing number of management options available. Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm – and even more complete solutions like OpenShift or EBS. However, when it comes to finding a platform that supports both Docker…
JBoss EAP 7 As we move closer and closer to Red Hat Summit, so does the anticipated full GA release of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform EAP 7. For those of you who are unaware, JBoss EAP is the market leading…
The term Internet of Things refers to the idea of enabling everyday objects to communicate over a network without requiring person-to-person or person-to-device interaction. Some examples include: refrigerators, lights, televisions, thermostats, sound systems and more. Up until now though, the adoption of…