Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Cloud Custodian – Policies? Resource Management? Something Else?

Cloud Custodian is yet another tool that helps us audit, manage, and apply policies to cloud resources, but with a twist. Is it any good? Should you use it? Who should use it?

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Is Kubernetes Too Complicated? How About ClickOps With Qovery?

Is Kubernetes too complicated? Do you or the people working with you prefer ClickOps instead of terminals and writing manifests? Do you prefer SaaS solution running on your own infrastructure? If you do, Qovery might be a good fit for you. In this video, I will show you how to use Qovery to deploy an application with a managed database to Kubernetes.

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How To Shift-Left Stateless Kubernetes Applications Management

How can we enable application developers to be self-sufficient instead of opening JIRA tickets requesting deployment of their apps to Kubernetes, creation of databases, clusters, etc.? In this video, I’m trying to answer that question through an example of a stateful application running in Kubernetes and connected to a database. To accomplish that, I’ll use Crossplane, SchemaHero, Okteto, and a bit of Bash scripting.

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Cloud And Kubernetes Cost Reporting With CAST AI

Exploring CAST AI as a way to combine scaling with cost reporting of cloud and Kubernetes resources.

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Cloud-Native Applications And NOT Infrastructure Code – Klotho

Wouldn’t it be great if we would not need to define infrastructure but let applications themselves figure out what to do, where to run, and how to do all that? Klotho enables us to write Cloud-native microservices and applications and auto-magically get infrastructure and the code that ties it all together.

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Cost-Aware Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling With Cast AI

Cast AI allows us to cut costs by autoscaling and to rightsize our Kubernetes clusters.

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Azure Container Apps: Containers As A Service (CaaS) Flavor Of Serverless

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed Containers As a Service (CaaS) flavor of serverless computing from Azure.

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KubeSphere – Kubernetes Platform For Cloud-Native App Management

KubeSphere Kubernetes platform is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management. Should you use it?

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