Posts by Michael Cade

Microsoft Entra, previously called Microsoft Azure Active Directory, is designed to protect identities and provide secure network access to resources within a multi-cloud family. Entra ID is Microsoft's identity solution and serves as the foundation for their cloud ecosystem. Read more

In the previous post in this series, we got Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes up and running on our local development cluster. In this post I will walk you through this dashboard, highlight some key features and functionalities, and show you how to get started. Read more

Many of you are coming to grips with Kubernetes, a new platform that has evolved over the past few years from being a developer-focused platform to one that has to be considered when ensuring your organization is operationally ready to serve business-critical applications. Read more

Over the past few years, I have been focused on the world of DevOps and learning my way through the overwhelming number of products, projects, tooling and methodologies that are involved with DevOps. Read more

Kubernetes adoption is accelerating as businesses become familiar with its many benefits. The platform offers portability and scalability, cost efficiency and productivity gains, which is why more than 5.6 billion developers use it today. Unfortunately, cyber-attacks and the potential for downtime are very real risks for cloud native environments, so backup and disaster recovery (DR) are critical components of any Kubernetes environment. This is especially true as the number of stateful applications such as databases are being deployed in Kubernetes.  Read more

The adoption of cloud-native development practices, particularly with Kubernetes, is rapidly accelerating as companies shift from last-gen tech to the far more reliable, scalable and portable environment that the cloud provides. Yet despite offering numerous advantages over on-premises systems, moving to the cloud can sometimes be a double-edged sword. Read more

When we look at virtualization, we know that the underpinning hardware will consist  of compute storage, and networking this is the same process that we see within the public cloud and even SaaS based workloads like  Microsoft 365. Kubernetes is no different, since we can run Kubernetes clusters in many different forms. This could be bare metal, using virtual machines (VMs) or taking advantage of a managed Kubernetes service like  Amazon EKS. Kubernetes is no different, we can run Kubernetes clusters in many different forms. This could be bare metal, using virtual machines or taking advantage of a managed Kubernetes service such as Amazon EKS. Read more

In today's digital age, Kubernetes has become an indispensable tool for managing and deploying complex software applications at scale. However, with its many moving parts, it's essential that you have a solid backup strategy in place to protect your critical data and configurations in case of unexpected failures, human errors or cyber attacks. Without a reliable backup system and the ability to hit your desired recovery objectives, you risk losing valuable data and facing costly downtime, which can result in lost revenue, decreased productivity and brand damage. Read more

In this blog we will be sharing some information about Ansible and then diving into how you can use Ansible to deploy Kasten K10 in a desired state either at scale for many Kubernetes clusters or a repeatable way to automate the deployment removing the human error factor, or it could be both. Read more

Recently, I set out to find an easy way for developers to deploy Kasten K10 and experience the value of the solution, without having to deploy public cloud managed Kubernetes environments or rely on virtual environments. Read more