Until version 1.3, whenever you had to install Verrazzano, you would be using the venerable kubectl. In version 1.4, we added the Verrazzano command line tool, aka vz cli. We can now install, analyze, upgrade the Verrazzano instance, check the status or generate a bug report. Without further pomp, let’s…

The year 2022 saw a significant rise in cyberattacks. Out of these, it’s estimated 40% of these are targeting the software supply chain. Accenture estimates losses due to general supply chain disruptions at €112.7 billion, or 0.9% of GDP in the Eurozone. Fortunately, software developers have not been sitting idle…

In a previous article, we deployed Thanos as a highly available solution and long term storage solution for Prometheus. In the process, we used the sidecar model to deploy Thanos as a sidecar container in the Prometheus pod to retrieve the metrics and write them to object storage. In this…

I’ve written about using different Ingress Controllers with OKE before. I’ve also written about using many of them simultaneously in the same cluster. In this article, we’ll look at how you can evaluate and improve the performance of your ingress controller. Set up Let’s set up our cluster first. Below is the…

Until recently, when you used OKE for your Kubernetes workload, the only networking option for your pod networking was your venerable and friendly neighborhood CNI, flannel. Flannel is comparatively lean and simple. It only handles your pod networking and isn’t interested in doing anything else. However, Kubernetes use cases have…

You may have heard we open sourced Cluster API for OCI (CAPOCI). I even mentioned it in a guest post for my buddy Joe. In this post, I’m going to explain what is Cluster API and how you can potentially use it in OCI. From the horse’s mouth: Cluster API…

In this article, we’ll learn a bit about two new features/service in OCI: Virtual Test Access Point (VTAP) and OpenSearch. To learn more about VTAP, read Misha Kasvin’s blog post or Ben Woltz’s example. …

A little bit of an unusual post this time around. I’m posting this on behalf of a colleague and team mate, Joe. Apparently, he prefers I handle the editing. I’m not sure why but he’s a great team mate with a wicked sense of humour and I learned a lot…

Oracle’s Q4 financial results are out and cloud revenues are up. A whole set of new products have recently been released, especially the smaller OCI Dedicated Regions at lower price point. Yeah, we’ve been busy. If you missed the announcement, you can watch it on demand: Amid all this…