It’s a Bank Holiday here in the UK and that’s the traditional time when Systems People take to their retreats and work on their Foo. Since Functional Progra...
Read blog postOrbit is our durable and highly available cloud storage service, based on OpenStack Swift. We provide an SSH file transfer protocol gateway to Orbit which a...
Read blog postGiven the sudden importance of staying indoors, we’ve been getting a number of questions about self-hosting video conferencing services on Brightbox. So we’v...
Read blog postIn this period of unprecedented uncertainty, the last thing you need to be worrying about is your cloud infrastructure. To that end I want to describe just ...
Read blog postWhen you create a Brightbox Server the root partition is automatically expanded to fill the entire disk on first-boot. Normally this is exactly what you want...
Read blog postThe Nearly Tool In the previous parts of this blog series we’ve covered various ways to manipulate and test Kubernetes YAML manifests using Ruby. But what i...
Read blog postStory So Far In the last part of this blog series we used OpenAPI to create a typed Kubernetes manifest that will raise exceptions if you use incorrect attr...
Read blog postStory So Far In the previous post we saw how we can create a Kubernetes Manifest from a Ruby Hash. However, to check we don’t add incorrect values we have t...
Read blog postKubernetes is a useful system for managing modern deployments, but it is a big beast whose flexibility brings with it a new twist on some old, old problems -...
Read blog postWhen deploying a larger web app onto Kubernetes it’s common to run a dedicated web service layer to proxy onto the application pods, perhaps doing some appli...
Read blog postOn Monday, three TCP networking vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel were disclosed by Netflix. The most severe of which could allow an attacker to crash a Li...
Read blog postWe’ve been hard at work on our Brightbox Cloud Terraform provider over the last few weeks and I thought I’d write up some of the improvements. Terraform is ...
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