Cloud Native Solutions for Today's Technical Problems
Jock's watchword is efficiency. He is always looking for ways to simplify, streamline and bring the power of cloud native development to today's challenges in managing the data center and the edge.
Jock's Recent Posts
Quick Start: Prep Your Dev Environment for Kubernetes
Getting started on a new platform, especially Kubernetes, can appear overwhelming. But with these tools, you’re much more likely to get ramped up quickly.
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Containers and Kubernetes Intro Classes at Cisco Live
Learn how powerful Kubernetes is for managing and monitoring applications, and how Kubernetes has made its way into edge compute applications. Then get introduced to open source container technologies and how to build your own cloud native applications.
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Harvester: The start of the Journey
Recently, a colleague and I have been experimenting with Harvester, an open source project to build a cloud native, Kubernetes-based Hyperconverged Infrastructure tool for running data center and edge compute workloads on bare metal servers.
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Cloud Native Development resources by Jock
Quick Start: Prep Your Dev Environment for Kubernetes
Getting started on a new platform, especially Kubernetes, can appear overwhelming. But with these tools, you’re much more likely to get ramped up quickly.
Read Jock's blog post
Containers and Kubernetes Intro Classes at Cisco Live
Learn how powerful Kubernetes is for managing and monitoring applications, and how Kubernetes has made its way into edge compute applications. Then get introduced to open source container technologies and how to build your own cloud native applications.
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Bringing Clarity to APIs on Cloud Native Technologies
See how Cloud Native technologies bring benefits to microservice software development. And, how APIClarity gives you better visibility into when your APIs are being utilized properly to improve your security posture, software delivery, and testing in general.
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See How to Use APIClarity with GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes
See an example of utilizing GitLab CI/CD with Kubernetes, Istio, and APIClarity to deploy a sample microservices app and control the lifecycle management of a sample application.
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Using Kubernetes and Containers to Remotely Manage User Computers
Hear how edge computing and cloud native technologies can be used to manage all of the resources needed to run successful in-person workshops. Live session coming to KubeCon.
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OnPrem K3s Build of Gitlab and Gitlab CICD
This repo is meant to be a guide to build up a k3s kube cluster, gitlab, and APIClarity demo from scratch.
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Internet of Things resources by Jock
Introduction to MQTT and Websockets
You will learn about the standard messaging protocols that are used in IoT. MQTT and Websockets are the defacto standard for machine-to-machine and machine-to-app communication. You will learn about each standard and why they are used.
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How to Develop IoT Solutions – New Webinar Series Begins
New webinar series shows you the basics of IoT, including how to choose devices and communication standards for your solution. A great way to get started with IoT application development and deployment.
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DevNet Certifications: How to Get Ready for the IoT Exam
The DevNet IoT certification gives you the skills to solve the challenges of IoT with best practices from software and IT principles.
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IoT Edge Compute Part 1 – Apps and Deployment on Cisco IoT Gateways
Learn how to use Cisco IOx and Cisco Kinetic to manage IoT Edge Gateways, providing security for IoT devices connected to local devices, apps, and cloud services.
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