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The Waves of Cloud Adoption: How We Got to Containers and Kubernetes

In order to understand how the technology industry landed at containers and Kubernetes, we need to first look back to the beginning, where it all started.  The year is 2016. Amazon AWS is a $12.2 billion business (compared with $45.3 in 2020) and still growing every day. It was the year that, for most companies,...

Success Story: Large Financial Institution Smoothly Migrates To Cloud

Overview The client is a closely governed, extremely risk averse organisation whose reputation and security had to be protected at all costs. They have high-level auditing controls and run primarily on a traditional data centre model. This large financial institution had a twofold challenge: 1)They needed to vacate their on-premise data center that came alongside...

Case Study: Enabling CGI to Manage Kubernetes Securely Across Multiple Clouds

Overview CGI’s Emerging Technology Practice (ETP) had been developing a machine learning platform with monitoring and logging capabilities, called Lovelace, to simplify the deployment of machine learning workloads and enhance the overall developer experience for their customers.  The small internal team of Machine Learning Engineers was developing on an AWS EKS cluster created with self-managed...

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Kubernetes: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re new to the world of Kubernetes, you may be a little confused at everything you need to know to wrap your head around it. Even with its ever-rising popularity it’s becoming a ‘household name’ for containerization — for good reason  —  but it’s also extremely complex. Trying to wrap your head around the ins...

From 2016 to Now: Continuing the Kubernetes Journey

If you’re looking to deploy containerized applications at scale, you’re most likely looking at implementing Kubernetes. But before this container orchestration platform became the go-to choice, it was a new open-source project eager to make a splash in the tech world. When it comes to Kubernetes history, you can certainly go pretty far back. For...

Where It Started: The Rich History of Kubernetes

You can’t deny the impact of Kubernetes. It’s allowed thousands of businesses to scale their applications with the power of container orchestration and cloud-native technologies. While it can seem like this revolutionary tech has only just hit the market, the reality is that Kubernetes history started long before the introduction of Kubernetes v1.0.0 in 2015....

How Chick-fil-A Became a Kubernetes Success Story

With the ever-increasing popularity of Kubernetes, it shouldn’t come as a shock that certainly major tech brands, such as Google, DirectTV and Spotify, have migrated to experience the speed and flexibility it provides.  As more industries catch up to these powerhouses in terms of how they approach their IT infrastructure, future-proofing your business means you either...

Is Kubernetes Setting You Up to Scale or Fail?

The cloud providers have got you covered in ensuring the technical scalability of their Kubernetes offerings. Amazon’s EKS, Azure’s AKS and Google’s GKE are all tested to ensure they can handle your applications’ growth requirements so that they don’t fail.  But what about the scalability of your organization? If your user base grows by tenfold, can you administer it...