by Stephen Kuenzli | Jan 21, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Security
Operating applications involving more than a few components without explicitly modeled contextual clues is difficult for humans and might be impossible for tools. This is especially true when people are a couple steps removed such as is often the case when analyzing... 
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 | Oct 30, 2019 | Docker
Docker in Action, 2ed has been released! Get 50% off with code tsdocker Reading Time: 5 minutes This is the first of several posts that will provide a high-level introduction to the top container orchestrators in late-2019, differences between them, and which might be... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Oct 28, 2019 | Docker
Reading Time: 2 minutes Conducting an Orchestra A container orchestrator schedules, runs, and supervises containerized application processes, usually across a cluster of hosts. Orchestrators usually provide a way to run applications as long lived services as well as... 