Kubernetes at Optimal Value
Kubernetes At Optimal Value On Thursday November 10th I was fortunate to be able to join the “Kubernetes at Optimal Value” event hosted by our dear friends at Fullstaq. The venue for this fully staq’ed day with Kubernetes ins-and-outs was Landgoed De Horst in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, which is as gorgeous as the […]
Security Blog Oktober 2022
Intro In honor of October Cybersecurity month our Greater Security team would like to give you some insides. Cybersecurity comes in many different forms and today we would like to talk about vulnerabilities. One of many challenges security professionals face is how to keep yourself up to date in all […]
Kubernetes
These last few months I’ve been writing a lot for Greater and today I can give away a tiny bit of the writing process. I’ve always been OK at writing documentation, but I certainly won’t go as far as saying that writing is a second nature. Writing a good piece […]
Temporary SSH access
This is a fun one from a while ago. Let me warn you up front though: it goes against the principle to not login on your servers via SSH and use deployment tools like Ansible, but it has its use cases. So, what’s this all about? Well, at a job […]
Run Native Windows Apps in UNIX-like Systems with WINE
If you’re a Linux or MacOS user you might depend on specific applications to get your work done. Whether that’s a personal project or a professional gig. Other times you might have the knowledge of a specific Windows app that you’ve been working with for several years but the main […]
Webservices part IV – Nextcloud, Traefik and TLS
We’ve covered quite a lot on our journey to automate the creation of one single VPS, hosting multiple websites or webapps. As you can see in the below diagram, we’re deploying to a Digital Ocean droplet, using Terraform and cloud-init. All code goes in git of course. Docker and Dockerfiles have been covered in part II of this series, Docker compose and a couple of web apps in part III.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
This year the biggest Kubernetes and cloud native experience was held in Valencia, Spain from 16 – 20 May 2022. Greater was there and in this blog, I would like to give you an impression of the event in general.
Webservices part II – Cloud-init , Docker and Dockerfile
As described last time, 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 […]
IaC with Terraform and AWS
IaC with Terraform and AWS Today we’ll be using Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) to deploy a web server (Apache) with a custom index.html on AWS. The webpage we’ll create won’t run on the default VPC but a new one we’ll create separately. This new VPC will contain an internet gateway, routes, a public […]
Webservices part I – Provider, Terraform and cloud-init
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 […]
Kubernetes, Kubernetes Certs and Getting Your Feet Wet
Kubernetes, Kubernetes Certs and Getting Your Feet Wet 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 […]
