I was at the London DevOps Meetup last night, graciously hosted by Facebook at their London HQ. We had three chats – one about how Facebook ensures it’s running, one about Facebook’s data centres, and one from Google about how …

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So, you want to use Google Cloud DNS? It’s not as polished as Amazon’s Route 53 service, to the point where the UI doesn’t display your entries, nor allow you to edit them. The command line tool even fires up …

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The final part of my tutorials about Kubernetes on Google Cloud is about spinning up your own Docker‘d n-tier app. Part 1 is here, and part 2 is here, and this post builds on them.

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Following on from my previous post which stood up an etcd cluster, here’s how to add Kubernetes nodes which you can schedule Docker containers upon.

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So, I’ve been getting Kubernetes running (following Kelsey Hightower’s tutorial), you need an etcd/fleetd cluster running, and here’s how to get up to speed with that in the Google Cloud.

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I was trying to get Kubernetes running on an etcd/fleetd CoreOS cluster under Vagrant on my Mac, but Vagrant seems to love handing out the same IP address to NAT adapters, causing Flannel issues. Given that nobody will actually be …

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Further from my previous post, you can add JSPs and HTML files to the project, simply by placing them under the src/main/webapp directory.

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I’m looking into the various cloud-hosting providers, so I’m creating a quick and simple Hello World project to see how well they work. This post is for Google’s AppEngine, which provides a free usage tier which is enough to see …

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