by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 13, 2019 | Cloud, Docker
Two Lemons (Tirza van Dijk) Have you noticed that many people operating Kubernetes clusters recommend replacing the cluster rather than upgrading it in place? Reading Time: 2.5 minutes That is, to upgrade from Kubernetes 1.11 to 1.14 you: deploy a new 1.14 clustertest... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 11, 2019 | AWS, Cloud, Docker, Strategy, Systems
This series on container orchestrators has covered: the general concept of a container orchestrator, their responsibilities, and typical architecturean overview of the orchestrators leading the market in 2019q4 (Swarm, Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes), what... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 8, 2019 | Cloud, Docker
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator built by a large community of technology vendors and users that was inspired by Google’s Borg orchestrator. Kubernetes is operated by everyone from major Cloud providers to you. From the What is Kubernetes page: Kubernetes... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 6, 2019 | AWS, Docker
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestrator built and operated by AWS. AWS operates ECS’ central orchestrator components and manages cluster state for you. Reading Time: 4 minutes Amazon ECS Ecosystem Diagram You have the choice to deploy... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Nov 1, 2019 | DevOps
Yesterday, I faced a situation that may be familiar to you and the people you collaborate with: Carve a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern in less than 90 minutes so that it could be enjoyed by children trick-or-treating on Halloween. I’m sharing this story because I... 