Articles

The Pure Doctrine  

Internet providers often market their open interfaces as RESTful, but is this true of the APIs, especially when no standard exists? We introduce some REST providers and look at how closely their API architectures reflect the REST principle.

Interaction  

The OpenStack cosmos cannot ignore the trend toward containers. If you want to combine both technologies, projects like Magnum, Kolla, and Zun come into play. Which one?

Let's Talk  

If you run microservices in containers, they are forced to communicate with each other – and with the outside world. We explain how to network pods and nodes in Kubernetes.

Always On  

Despite the abundance of tools that test code and help improve the effectiveness of a continuous integration pipeline, automated security testing is much more difficult to get right than it might appear.

Security Skills  

Add extra security to your SSH service, securely copy files to and from remote computers, and configure passwordless SSH for automation scripting.

Lighting Up the Dark  

As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.

More than a Thousand Words  

We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.

Gridlock  

Use Microsoft SQL Server diagnostic tools to troubleshoot bottlenecks and other performance problems.

Semiautomatic  

Trove brings DBaaS to OpenStack; however, the service needs meaningful configuration for optimum performance.