“It works on my machine.” This line has become an excuse often overused by developers to escape the burden of having to investigate problems experienced by end-users that they are unable to replicate on their development machines. …

Modern applications rely on microservices to remain scalable and efficient. Kubernetes provides the perfect environment for microservices to exist and work together with the tools and features it offers. As each part of the application gets placed in a container, the system as a whole becomes more scalable. The use…

Kubernetes has already solved the container orchestration problem. The remaining challenge of the cloud-native ecosystem is to make microservice delivery more efficient and resilient. This can be accomplished with service mesh technology. Open-source service mesh projects like Istio, Envoy and Linkerd are gaining popularity in recent years. This post explores…

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is Amazon’s solution for running and orchestrating Docker containers. It provides an interface for defining and deploying Docker containers to run on clusters of EC2 instances. The initial setup and configuration of an ECS cluster is not exactly trivial, but once configured it works well…

For the past few weeks, I have been digging a lot into Chef. Although the documentation is good, there have been a lot of times when I was stuck with no clue whatsoever. So I will be giving a quick walk through on how can you setup your own infra…

I’ll start this article by saying I never wrote much blogs as I thought myself always as a person who lacked the essence of using words to show my feelings or knowledge. But it all changed in the last year when I started reading Blogs on Medium. Medium was the…

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestrator and has been establishing itself as IT architects’ container orchestrator of choice. But Kubernetes’ power comes at a price; jumping into the cockpit of a state-of-the-art jet puts a lot of power under you, but knowing how to actually fly it is not so…

Running Docker in production has quickly become the norm. Cloud hosting providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud realized that this is what Organizations are in need for. Services like EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service) and ECS(Elastic Container Service) from AWS offer a completely managed environment for your Docker containers to run…

The process is like a child playing with shape sorter, although sometimes you might need to do modifications either to the shape or to the hole that fits that shape. So, as a DevOps professional, it’s important to do a personal evaluation of any technology. …