Don MacVittie explains how DevOps technology and tools have saved developers from the horrors of container sprawl.
Low-Hanging Fruit, 2023 Edition: Part Two
Last time, we discussed setting up a comparative inventory system for your growing API footprint. The idea is that as security catches up to new technology deployments, enterprises will have to step up their game and implement those new technologies. API security is currently the biggest need because of exposure to the world, but not […]
We Are Living in an Ephemeral World
We are lucky to live and work in the times that we do. Oh, we have our challenges, and I talk about them a fair amount here on these pages. But the things we can do in IT today have not been possible in the past, and the change isn’t over. Soon you will be […]
The Right Tool for the Job: Container Edition
I have written about “the right tool for the job” repeatedly. Because (again) we are absolutists in IT. My father was an antiques restorer that dabbled in flipping houses and was rather forceful about the “right tool for the job.” When I left the service and joined IT, it was something of a shock to […]
DevSecOps: Realities of Policy Management
Policy management is essential to scale cloud environments and is key to secure DevOps practices. It enables organizations to manage policies put in place that secure the cloud environment, ensure Kubernetes configurations are secure and enable the continuous monitoring of a company’s overall security posture. As businesses migrate workloads across multi-cloud architectures to achieve the […]
What We Don’t Know is Dangerous
Pop quiz: How many database management systems (be they RDBMS or NoSQL or even flat file) do you have running in your overall organization? Not actual databases, but management systems? How many containers do you have that are exposed to the internet, directly or indirectly? Not container management systems, because you’re only running a couple […]
A Security Vulnerability Management Guide
Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
You Have a Box: The Impact of Containers on DevOps
To continue the discussion from my last blog post, you have a box. Increasingly, you only have to ask, “What do we want to put in it?” It is interesting to see the growth and change in IT over time. The advent of containers is the focus of this particular blog, but there are many […]
UK technology firm Cloudhouse sees three-fold revenue growth and expansion into the US
Appoints Nick Coleman as CTO, and outlines its strategic growth plans London, UK – October 16, 2018 – Cloudhouse Technologies has seen over 300 per cent growth over the last 12 months, and expanded its business into the US – thanks, in part, to strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon. As it looks to continue its growth […]
Containers as Disposable Servers?
There is a belief in the space where containers meet DevOps that a service hosted in a container crashing is no big deal, and you can just spin up a new one. It’s not a pervasive belief, but it is common enough that we’ve all heard/read it somewhere. I think this view of the world […]