If you use Kubernetes on a regular basis you probably have come across Lens the Kubernetes IDE from Mirantis. I personally use Lens and would recommend it for anyone leveraging Kubernetes, whether you are on the operational side or on the application management one.

Just recently (a couple of days…

“KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem”. (from https://kubesphere.io)

In this first article we will:

• introduce the KubeSphere platform and its main functionalities
• install a local Kubernetes…

In a world changing so fast you need to be ready for a future than can be full of surprise (some good, some not so good, some really bad):

• one day your employer might not need you anymore and ask you to leave
• the technology you’ve been working on for…

Docker Compose is a great tool from Docker, it is used by millions to deploy and manage multi-containers applications. Docker Compose is basically 2 things:

• The Compose file is a specification in yaml (named docker-compose.yaml by default) that Docker Compose takes as input. This file defines the components of a…

In 2015 Docker and some other leaders in container technologies created the OCI (Open Container Initiative) to define :

• the Image Specification: how a container image must be structured
• the Runtime Specification: how a container must be run from an Image Specification

The commanddocker image build is probably the best…

As I used (and will use) the VotingApp in other articles to illustrate different kind of container’s related technologies, I will present here the whole application and the enhancements that have been done recently. I’ll just reference this article from other ones to avoid too much duplication.

The VotingApp is…

When I deliver Docker trainings, I usually provide each participant an Ubuntu VM and ask them to install Docker using the following command:

$ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh

The output of this command has slightly changed with Docker 20.10 as it now provides information on how to run Docker…

A lot has happened in the k0s environment since I wrote my first article about k0s a couple of months ago. …