What is Istio? Istio is an open-source service mesh-a modernized service networking layer that provides a transparent way to easily and flexibly automate application network processes. It layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. Istio’s core concepts are Traffic Management, Observability, and Security capabilities. Why use Istio? Istio helps organizations run distributed, microservices-based apps anywhere. Istio’s […]
The introduction of new tools such as Jenkins and Docker has helped to boost productivity. Over the past years, the way we build software has undergone significant changes. Nowadays, developers can create new technologies within months and deploy them. In this tutorial, we will set up Jenkins in a Docker container and use Groovy script […]
Few words about the project ————————————- ITGix is proud to partner up with StorPool Storage to deliver a project of a live on-premise Kubernetes cluster using StorPool software as persistent storage. The project aims to demonstrate the high compatibility of StorPool Storage allowing it to be integrated into the same computational nodes running Kubernetes while also showing a high […]
This is the first post of a mini-series dedicated to running Kubernetes hosted on AWS. The first post will be about the considerations we have made when proposing a production-ready and Enterprise-grade Kubernetes environment to our clients. I will go more technical, with the tools and AWS services we are using, in the next blog post, […]
Introduction to Docker If you have been following the “cloud” trends you probably have heard of Docker. It is an open-source implementation of the LXC (Linux Containers) used for packaging an application and its needed dependencies into a container that can be deployed and replaced easily. The containerization in Docker is achieved via resource isolation […]