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By Yann Albou. SoKube – silver member at CNCF – went to KubeCon Europe Valencia to get the 2022 temperature, trends and news of the CNCF & Kubernetes ecosystem. After 2 years of virtual conferences, this was just awesome to attend again such an event in person. Speakers were also grateful to have real interactions […]

By Sofiane Taleb. How etcd persists data and how to configure it correctly. Introduction Etcd is an essential part of many projects. It is the primarily backend data store of Kubernetes, the heart and standard system of choice for containers orchestration. Thanks to etcd, cloud-native applications are more available and remain functional even in the […]

By Vincent Zurczak. This article starts a series of blog posts about working with several Kubernetes clusters. This series is an opportunity for the SoKube team to share and discuss various aspects, from design to operations, but also financial and organizational concerns. Before going any further, maybe would it be appreciable to remind when such […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction Sokube teams recently had the opportunity to migrate an on-premise TFS Server infrastructure to Azure DevOps Services cloud offering. There are many reasons why you might want to do this: Getting automatic updates from Microsoft Optimizing financial costs and reducing operational time Complying to certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2 […]

By Yann Albou. GitOps is now a well-known approach for the delivery of your software, but it doesn’t provide neither a frame to represent the different target environments nor a solution to propagate changes from one stage to the next. So what are the solutions to describe our Dev, QA or Production environments and especially […]

By Sébastien Féré. It’s been a while since I shared some tips my first CNCF certification exam. Meanwhile, I and several teammates at SoKube successfully passed the CK{AD,A,S} series, which makes SoKube a KCSP and KTP certified company. This makes totally sense as we – at SoKube – help other companies entering and maturing in […]

By Stéphane Métairie. Context For companies that primarily host their services in "legacy" systems, the movement toward Infrastructure-as-code poses the question of tool choice. Terraform and Ansible are commonly used tools in this area. But, when, how to use Terraform, Ansible? And do we have to use both? Important Note: This article intentionally ignores Kubernetes […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction to Kubernetes Storage As you may already know, Kubernetes is a free and open-source container orchestration platform. It helps you manage containerized environments and provides amazing features such as self-healing, rollout, rollbacks, auto scaling and packaging ! Storage may not be your main concern if you are running stateless workloads or […]

By Lionel Gurret. Introduction Ansible is a well known open source automation engine which can automate, provision, handle configuration management and orchestration. As it doesn’t need an agent by using SSH protocol, and because you don’t need to write code using simple modules, Ansible eases the deployment and management of your applications ! Before discussing […]