Dependency-Injection is about simplifying application configuration by automatically resolving the dependencies of software components. This idea can be extended to distributed applications by considering the components and dependencies as the different micro-services or backing services part of the architecture. A cloud platform should provide mechanisms to allow information about other…

Being able to deploy applications and workloads to multiple clouds easily gives you flexibility and freedom-of-choice. You can avoid cloud vendor lock-in, continuously shop for low-cost infrastructure, migrate workloads and data at will, and stay in full-control in face of changing provider policies and ad-hoc decisions. At the engineering level…

The quest to find the right kind of PaaS — Platform as a Service —has for long been the holy-grail of cloud computing. We claim that achieving this goal is finally in reach, and now it’s not the time to let go. Multiple generations of technology have passed by which…

Command-line tools (CLI) have a mystic of their own. While a fancy web UI tends to be the preferred experience for most end-users these days, the appeal of CLI tools to many die-hard developers and DevOps is well known. Most importantly, CLI tools enable scripting and automation in places where…

Deploying apps to the cloud has never been so easy. Now, you can build them in the cloud too. Kubernetes provides you the runtime needed to deploy your apps in a uniform way, between your local development-test environment, a on-premises cluster, and any cloud provider of your choosing. Tekton is…

Kubernetes is the de-facto industry standard for deploying and managing container-based cloud native solutions, and microservice architectures. Kubernetes provides a consistent approach to orchestrate applications and services running as containers clusters, providing features such as configuration of deployments, horizontal scaling, services exposure, and many other. It has an enthusiastic open-source…

Panic is in the air! The recent announcement that Kubernetes is deprecating support for Docker, has created some confusion in the community. Kubernetes and Docker leads, and community experts more broadly, where quick to clarify matters and reduce anxiety about what does it mean, and how and what it affects…

The beautiful thing about technology and innovation is that it compounds. Things that used to be hard, resource intense, or unfeasible, become simple, affordable, sometimes trivial to implement, when a new paradigm shift and technology wave comes along and matures. So is the case with cloud computing and large-scale distributed systems. Kubernetes…