Cloud Computing has changed the way applications are being developed and how services are being operated. The a9s Data Services team has always been part of this change by leveraging popular open-source data services and making them consumable on modern Application Developer Platforms, commonly known as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). However, operating…

December 18th is called “International Migrants Day” and is celebrated with different activities all around the world. Migration in our company is referred to as moving to cloud technologies. But today, we decided to focus on people’s migration. Migration has been a courageous expression of the individuals, coming out of…

Authentication methods are currently not supported in Prometheus, nor its related components like the Pushgateway. However, this can be added via reverse proxies. Pushing it as an app to Cloud Foundry with neither the go-buildpack nor the binary-buildpack will give you such functionality. The staticfile-buildpack supports configuring basic authentication. This…

Authors: Matthew Doherty, Philipp Kuntz, Robert Gogolok When extending the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions you’ll come across the dilemma to clean up external resources when deleting a custom resource. Although you can create a custom resource simply to store and retrieve structured data, most of the time there is some…

Evolution of Software Development and Operations — Part 1 — In the past 10 years software development has changed significantly. So did software operations. Software development and operations form a continuous interplay. Let’s have a closer look, outline these changes and see how they lead to the emergence of modern application platforms. Find the cutting edge and see some of…