Automated Infrastructure Got automation? If your enterprise is going Cloud Native, automation is a core requirement. The Automated Infrastructure pattern leads the way to this major step in the CN migration process. Perhaps your enterprise manages infrastructure using time-consuming manual processes. Or maybe you’ve “automated” things a bit with a collection of ad hoc scripts strung [...]
This post appears as part of a series of Cloud Native Transformation Patterns, which begins with Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. These are condensed versions of the full patterns appearing the forthcoming book, Cloud Native Patterns: Architecture, Design and Culture, a joint project of Container Solutions and O'Reilly. Complete and in-depth information regarding each [...]
This post is one in a series of Cloud Native Transformation Patterns, which begins with Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. Though a successful Cloud Native transformation requires commitment and buy-in from across the entire organisation, the work itself is not “all hands on deck.” Instead, a Core Team of engineers and architects is created to lead the transition. [...]
This post follows on from our first post on Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction and Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Executive Commitment. As we saw from the previous post, Executive Commitment is a pattern that needs to be in place at the very start of any migration to the cloud. Cloud Native transformation requires significant changes throughout the entire organization, [...]
This post follows on from our first post on Cloud Native Transformation Patterns: Introduction. Cloud Native is best known for the collection of bleeding edge technologies it represents. However, many folk - especially those new to the architecture - fail to realize that there are human components that are equally crucial for Cloud Native success. One of these, Executive [...]
Cloud native architecture can practically endow software developers with superpowers by granting project velocity, scalability, increased security and reliability, even cost savings. An undeniably potent combination of capabilites -- but only if we use them correctly. As we explored previously in When is the Wrong Time to Use Kubernetes?, the desire to modernise infrastructure and go Cloud [...]
Docker and Kubernetes are undoubtedly the biggest names in Cloud Native infrastructure right now. But: are they competing technologies, or complementary ones? Do we need to worry about joining the right side? Is there risk here for enterprises, or is the war already won? If so, who won it? Some context for this query is in order. Three years ago, war was raging inside the data centre. By [...]
We began exploring the concept of basing good architecture upon cloud native patterns with “A Timeless Way of Building a Cloud Native System?”. Key takeaways were that every pattern fits into a larger scheme and that the set of patterns behind a cloud native architecture can form a clear way to describe the system. Cloud native patterns, thus, could become the much-needed shared language [...]
OH: “the thing about distributed tracing is that apart from the people who work on it, no one gives a damn. At every company where we’ve rolled out tracing, only a very small number of developers actually used it.” Not the first time I’m hearing this. — Cindy Sridharan (@copyconstruct) June 23, 2018 We saw this tweet and were quite intrigued. And also curious: is this true? [...]
When a new client comes to Container Solutions, the very first thing we do is take them through the CS Cloud Migration Maturity Matrix. The Maturity Matrix is a custom tool to analyse and describe organisational status in order to design a custom migration roadmap. We use it to create an accurate snapshot of an enterprise along nine different axes, including architecture, infrastructure, culture [...]
