<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none;" alt="" src="https://dc.ads.linkedin.com/collect/?pid=58103&amp;fmt=gif">
Skip to content
CONTENT HUB
 

News and Resources

Learn More Before Working With Us

Read our guide that details the 5-Step Roadmap for Upgrading Legacy Systems and Apps.

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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…

Read more

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…

Read more

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…

Read more

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...

Read more

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…

Read more

  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 &…

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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,...

Read more

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,...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more

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...

Read more