The IT Hollow

In this post we’ll start exploring ways that you might be able to better manage your Kubernetes cluster for security or organizational purposes.

A critical part of deploying containers within a Kubernetes cluster is understanding how they use the network.

It’s quite possible that you could have a Kubernetes cluster but never have to know what an endpoint is or does, even though you’re using them behind the scenes.

If you’ve been following the series, you may be thinking that we’ve built ourselves a problem.

After following the previous posts, we should feel pretty good about deploying our pods and ensuring they are highly available.

In a previous post we covered the use of pods and deployed some “naked pods” in our Kubernetes cluster.

The following posts are meant to get a beginner started with the process of understanding Kubernetes.

Amazon Web Services has released yet another service designed to improve the lives of people administering an AWS environment.

We’ve got a Kubernetes cluster setup and we’re ready to start deploying some applications.

I’ve been wanting to have a playground to mess around with Kubernetes (k8s) deployments for a while and didn’t want to spend the money on a cloud solution like AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or Google Kubernetes Engine .

Okay, I’m scared of change just like everyone else.

A primary concern for companies moving to the cloud is whether or not their workloads will remain secure.

Amazon announced a new service at re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas, called the AWS Transit Gateway.

At AWS re:Invent this year in Las Vegas, Amazon announced a ton of services, but one that caught my eye was the AWS Resource Access Manager.

If you’re getting started with VMware Cloud on AWS then you should be aware of all the points in which you can block traffic with a firewall.

Today, AWS announced the release of the long anticipated drift detection feature for CloudFormation.

If you’ve been doing application development for long, having tools in place to check the health of your code is probably not a new concept.

I recently attended the Devops Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas so that I could keep up to date on the latest happenings around integrating devops for companies.

A transit VPC is a pretty common networking pattern in an AWS environment.

Upgrading your vRealize Automation instance has some times been a painful exercise.

Amazon has released yet another Simple Systems Manager service to improve the management of EC2 instances.

Opening an AWS account is very easy to do.

In a previous post, we covered how to use an AWS Custom Resource in a CloudFormation template to deploy a very basic Lambda function.

We love to use AWS CloudFormation to deploy our environments.

Some things change when you move to the cloud, but other things are very much the same.

Getting new code onto our servers can be done in a myriad of ways these days.

We love Kubernetes.

We love Kubernetes.

Amazon has announced a new service that will help customers manage their EBS volume snapshots in a very simple manner.

A common question that comes up during AWS designs is, “Should I use a transit VPC?”

There are a dozen new technologies being introduced every day that never amount to anything, while others move on to create completely new methodologies for how we interact with IT.

I took last week off from work to spend some time with my family and just relax.

Passwords are a necessary evil to keep bandits from running away with your confidential data.

Who we are The website Address is https://theithollow.com.

Hashicorp’s Terraform product is very popular in describing your infrastructure as code.

If you’re interested in visualizing your data in easy to display graphs, Amazon QuickSight may be your solution.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) can be a confusing topic for people that are new to Amazon Web Services.

A pretty common question that comes up is how to manage multiple accounts within AWS from a user perspective.

Just because you’ve started moving workloads into the cloud, doesn’t mean you can forget about Microsoft Active Directory.

Just because you’ve started moving workloads into the cloud, doesn’t mean you can forget about Microsoft Active Directory.

Just because you’ve started moving workloads into the cloud, doesn’t mean you can forget about Microsoft Active Directory.

Locking down an AWS environment isn’t really that if you know what threats you’re protecting against.

Information Technology is a very difficult field to keep up with.

Age discrimination can be an issue in any industry, but this issue is something members of the information technology (IT) industry can specifically identify with.

I’m a big advocate for building your cloud apps to take advantage of cloud features.

Reserved Instances are often used to reduce the price of Amazon EC2 instance on-demand pricing.

Multi-Factor Authentication or MFA, is a common security precaution used to prevent someone from gaining access to an account even if an attacker has your username and password.

There is news in the backup world today.

AWS Organizations is a way for you to organize your accounts and have a hierarchy not only for bills to roll up to a single paying account, but also to setup a way to add new accounts programatically.