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Case Study: Security for a large multinational media provider’s Internal Developer Platform

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Tiago Alves

The client is a large multinational that operates in different parts of the world. In each of these geolocations, there are different products, which means different developer platforms with different security requirements.

Platform Lifecycle Management with Flux & Concourse

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Thoiba Thoudam

Platform Lifecycle Management is a crucial element in the realm of software development, shaping and executing the procedural flow for deploying and promoting changes across multiple environments - from CI and Test to Dev, PreProd, and ultimately, Production.

Unravelling Kubernetes Networking: A Comparative Guide to Choosing the Best CNI

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Andreas Ttofi

What is CNI (Container Network Interface)? The Container Network Interface (CNI) is a specification and a set of libraries for designing plugins used to configure network interfaces in Linux containers.

Integrating Kubernetes and Vault: The options

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Tomasz Bartosiewicz

Over the years, we have observed several common issues when it comes to Kubernetes secret management by our clients.

What’s the point of Operators and CRDs? A seasonal reflection

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Geoff Macartney

It is that time of year when our thoughts naturally turn to pondering the things in life that truly matter.

Why we are building our own Developer Platform

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Christopher Batey

CECG was founded by and is made up of, the most senior software engineers that want to get things done quickly.

Multi-Tenant Ingress for a GKE-based Developer Platform

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Christopher Batey

A key capability of a developer platform is to enable developers to expose services to the Internet as seamlessly as possible.

Mastering the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Exam: The Influence of Platform Engineering Excellence

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Neofytos Zacharia

Embarking on the journey to conquer the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Exam was a challenging yet rewarding experience that significantly elevated my skills and understanding of cloud technologies.

10 + 1 Things I wish I knew about operators before I wrote one

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Christopher O’Quinn

Writing a custom Kubernetes Operator for the first time can be a bit of a challenge. It’s not obvious where to look or where to start!

Upgrading Kubernetes: 8 years of production

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Matt Burgess

How we successfully keep multi-tenanted production clusters up to date. CECG engineers have been running production Kubernetes clusters for one of our clients for over 8 years now.