Giving you a high overview of what we’ll be doing, the plan is to automate the creation of one single VPS, hosting multiple websites or webapps. We’re putting these sites or apps in containers and distribute the incoming requests with a cloud native reversed proxy. Since I’ll be introducing quite a lot of new technologies in this Greater blog series, I’m dividing this into four posts.

Giving you a high overview of what we’ll be doing, the plan is to automate the creation of one single VPS, hosting multiple websites or webapps. We’re putting these sites or apps in containers and distribute the incoming requests with a cloud native reversed proxy. Since I’ll be introducing quite a lot of new technologies in this Greater blog series, I’m dividing this into four posts.

Containers, container orchestration, cloud native.. At this point these might feel like buzzwords to some IT professionals, but numbers don’t lie. Latest reports from the CNCF show that Kubernetes usage increased by 67% since last year and now a staggering 5.6 million developers use it on a daily basis and made it part of their tool box. Like it or not Kubernetes is here to stay, so why not take the chance to help you get started and learn some of its fundamentals.

Running your applications not on servers that are in your possession (either onsite or in a datacenter), but on somebody else’s server. That is where it all began. When people are talking about ‘the cloud’, they often mean the original big three:

e sure to check out the last post. In the intro I explain that we’ll be experimenting with some cool technologies to, for example, setup a webserver from scratch the coming weeks. But first we need a good grasp on the basics, and the basis of this all is git. Git is not only the basis for this project of ours, but for all your future work. I can’t imagine any serious IT work without a form of version control. But don’t take my word for it, just look at the latest stackoverflow.com Developer Survey about the most used tools.

The coming weeks we’ll be experimenting with some cool technologies to, for example, setup a webserver from scratch with a couple Infrastructure as Code tools and configuration management tools, websites served by Docker containers, a reverse proxy based on Traefik …