Welcome to another VSHN.timer! Every Monday, 5 links related to Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI / CD, and DevOps; all stuff coming out of our own chat system and making us think, laugh, or simply work better. This week we feature interesting articles about DevOps, one of the most widely misunderstood and misquoted words in the modern business of software.

Am Mi. 7. August 2019 Freitag fand bereits der 5. VSHN DAY statt, bei dem sich unser Team alljährlich zu einem freiwilligen Strategietag zusammenfindet, um gemeinsam über die Zukunft von VSHN zu diskutieren. VSHN: Back to the Future. VSHN Mitgründer Tobias Brunner (@tobruzh) hat den VSHN Day 2019 mit einem Rückblick eingeläutet. Was war die Idee hinter VSHN? Warum haben sich die Gründer und ersten VSHNeers 2014 zusammengeschlossen, um den Hostingmarkt umzukrempeln?

Welcome to the new VSHN.timer! Every Monday, 5 links related to Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI / CD, and DevOps; all stuff coming out of our own chat system and making us think, laugh, or simply work better. This week we feature a few articles stating what is in everyone’s mind: Kubernetes is becoming the new standard platform for cloud applications.

Bem-vindo Nuno. Before VSHN, I’ve been a Linux user from the nineties and then working in *nix technologies for more than a decade, specially leading teams, projects and as a manager. Five years ago I decided to work again as a technician, more focused in Cloud Operations and working remotely with a distributed team across the world. Along the way I was exposed to micro-services using Docker, compose and Kubernetes.

Bei sommerlichen Temperaturen hat am Mi. 3. Juli wieder ein VSHN Teamevent stattgefunden. Nach dem Adventuregolf waren wir natürlich wieder sehr gespannt, was uns dieses Mal erwartet. Die VSHNeers haben sich im Office versammelt und wussten trotz einiger Hinweise im Vorfeld nicht genau, was auf sie zukommt. Trotz der Unwissenheit war die Vorfreude jedoch ungetrübt. 🙂

It is difficult to have a clear idea about what to expect from a job you would like to have in the future without ever being immersed in the work environment beforehand. Therefore, after coming across the website of VSHN – The DevOps Company, I decided to contact the company and ask for a two-day long introduction to the job. Luckily, shortly after I received an approval from Aarno Aukia, who happened to have graduated from the same school I am visiting now. I was informed that I could come to the company and learn from the software engineers Dimitri Wessels and Peter Bittner about the job. I was happy to find out that both were very much into Python, which I am learning to use for my school project.

VSHN receives Rising Star award: VSHN – The DevOps Company receives the award Rising Star of the ISG Provider Lens Switzerland 2019 study at the award ceremony night in Spreespeicher Berlin. We are of course very happy that we were able to place ourselves so successfully in the study alongside many well-known global players from the IT world. The VSHNeers Patrick Mathers (CEO) and Markus Speth (CMO) receive the Rising Star from ISG Director Heiko Henkes and are very pleased about the award.

I have been working as a full-time software developer in the last 6 years after my Bachelor’s degree in computer science. I started as an ETL developer, then a year later I switched to web development. In those years I specialized in backend technologies like nodeJs, Php, Scala and especially in Java with many different frameworks.

For this SDK supported workflow, we provide:a) a description of the generated Operator structure (there is one for each specific workflow);b) a link to our example(s) of operator(s) based on such Operator structure (there is one for each specific workflow) and logic.c) descriptions on how to add (e.g., 3rd party) resources, different from the Core Kubernetes resource types, to your Operator d) a description of the main pros and cons of using such Operator structure (there is one for each specific workflow) and logic.

KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona: KubeCon Europe 2019 took place in Barcelona at the Fira exhibition centre, where the Mobile World Congress also takes place. As Silver Sponsor of the Linux Foundation, VSHN was present with its own booth. The flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation gathered users and technology savvy people from leading open source and cloud communities from Kubernetes to Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, CoreDNS, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Harbor and etcd from 20 to 23 May 2019 in Barcelona. For four days, like-minded people met to promote the know-how and further development of cloud computing.

DevOpsDays Zurich 2019. We were Platinum Sponsor at the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 and had our own booth with APPUiO. The number of visitors doubled again this year and you can definitely say that DevOpsDays has developed into one of the most important DevOps events in Zurich.

VSHN – The DevOps Company is pleased to announce K8up (pronounced /keɪtæpp/) at KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2019, our Open Source backup operator for Kubernetes and OpenShift.

DevOps stands for a new culture and approach in the collaboration of traditionally separated departments. Development (software development) and Operations (IT operations) are pulling together to increase software quality and availability and thus customer satisfaction.

Serverless is one of those hot topics that, as many others in our industry, looks a bit like a good old idea recycled and brought back to fashion. Yet Serverless (or “Function as a Service”) looks like a natural evolution to a movement that started more than a decade ago, when Heroku and Google App Engine came under the spotlight. (This blog post is the transcription of the presentation given at the CNC Switzerland meetup, May 9th 2019. Slides are available at the end of this page.)

Unser drittes Cloud Native Computing Meetup 2019 fand am Do. 09. Mai im Swisscom Tower in Zürich statt. Herzlichen Dank an Swisscom für die Bereitstellung der tollen Räumlichkeiten und an Cloudreach für das Sponsoring des Apéros. Das dritte CNC-Meetup 2019 war sehr gut besucht und nach interessanten Talks hatten wir eine spannende Gesprächsrunde in angenehmer Atmosphäre und wundervoller Aussicht über Zürich.

I started my career as a web developer in 1997 using Microsoft technologies. This was at the times when Netscape Navigator was still a thing; we did not call ourselves “Full-Stack engineers;” and apps were not running on “The Cloud” yet, but simply on a non-virtual, actual, often rebooted, Windows server, somewhere in a datacenter, with a single-core Pentium II chip, and not even a half a gigabyte of RAM.

Section 2 – Examples of Supported Kubernetes Operator SDK workflows: Here we discuss about the three available alternative workflows to generate Operators provided by the last versions of Operator SDK APIs. We also discuss pros and cons of using the various operators workflows.

Section 2 – Supported Kubernetes Operator SDK workflows: Here we discuss about the three available alternative workflows to generate Operators provided by the last versions of Operator SDK APIs.We also discuss the pros and cons of using the various operators’ workflows.

I once wanted to learn real programming, so I wrote a mail to Aarno Aukia and asked if I could come by for a trial day. He wrote me back very quickly and we made an appointment. I received more detailed information on the phone from my accompanying person Peter Bittner. He explained the program to me and made me a computer ready.

iX Magazine article: Cloud-to-Cloud MigrationOur CTO Aarno Aukia has contributed an article in iX Magazine 4/2019 on cloud-to-cloud migration. The challenge of Cloud-to-Cloud MigrationThere are many reasons to change the cloud provider or the cloud model. But migration is not an easy task. There are different migration options based on the underlying data.