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Kubernetes Secrets: Best Practices & CI/CD Workflow

Kubernetes secrets play a pivotal role in securely managing and storing sensitive data. They achieve this by isolating sensitive data from code and configuration, thereby preventing unintended exposure and unauthorised access. To enhance both application security and ecosystem integrity, the integration of Secure Secrets Management Solutions into Kubernetes CI/CD deployments becomes imperative. By adhering to...

Case study: Empowering the Home Office to Easily, Efficiently and Securely Create Cloud Native Services

Overview The UK Home Office is a large government organisation, whose projects and services have historically been delivered by many different teams and suppliers, all with varying processes. By 2014 it was widely considered best-practice to utilise public cloud, as the community largely shifted in that direction. This widespread cloud adoption led to a mandated...

Meet the Appvians: Arron Duggins, Talent Acquisition Manager

From engineering to operations, Meet the Appvians is a series that shines a spotlight on the people behind our products: What they do, what they enjoy outside of work, and how they’ve experienced life at Appvia.  For this edition, we caught up with Arron Duggins, Talent Acquisition Manager, on searching for (and cultivating) exceptional talent, what...

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...

Appvia Achieves Microsoft Gold Partner Status

We’re excited to announce that Appvia has become a certified Cloud Platform Microsoft Gold Partner. Microsoft has three levels to their partner program: Partner, Silver Partner and Gold Partner. To become a certified partner, organizations must prove their level of expertise by meeting specific competency requirements and validating these skills with required exams. Gold is the...

Meet the Appvians: Mark Hughes, Product Engineering Lead

From engineering to operations, Meet the Appvians is a series that shines a spotlight on the people behind our products: What they do, what they enjoy outside of work, and how they’ve experienced life at Appvia.  This time, we caught up with Mark Hughes, Appvia’s Product Engineering Lead on how Appvia Wayfinder, as well as product...

Meet the Appvians: Vincent Lam, Solutions Engineer

From engineering to operations, Meet the Appvians is a series that shines a spotlight on the people behind our products: What they do, what they enjoy outside of work, and how they’ve experienced life at Appvia.  For this edition of the series, we caught up with Vincent Lam, one of our Solutions Engineers, on his path...

The Bank of England Partners With Appvia

The Bank of England has appointed Appvia to assist in the design, construction and assurance of a new cloud environment, following a public procurement process which commenced in January 2020.  During the two-year partnership, Appvia will be supporting development and project teams within the Bank in testing and deploying code in cloud environments, working with security...