We are all different …. we work differently, respond in different ways, have different goals, you could say the way we operate is unique. This is a good thing, however, it can make it difficult to know how to interact with each other! I can’t remember where I first saw the idea of a …

It was a fresh, dry, busy Wednesday morning on the 22nd January. I sat on the 205 bus from the hotel to the London office (I have discovered it is a great way for me to think). My attention was focused on what I would be saying to the UK platform architecture team (including a good number of the …

We know that when it comes to self-service a key thing is to be able to select services you need from a catalog/marketplace. In the Cloud Foundry world, and increasingly in the K8s world, we had the Open Service Broker API (OSBAPI). This ability is one of the most critical aspects to providing both …

A deployment strategy is more and more important as you want to get new features and functionality to your users as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Gone is the day that you can get away with throwing up an “Essential maintenance” message, users will start to get annoyed and move …

While trying to get an application analysis tool working on my laptop I discovered that when I originally set it up it only had Java 12 install when I needed to make use of Java 11. I have never really needed to concern myself with this sort of thing in the past so sprung to Google (and to save me …

I got the chance to blow off some public talking cobwebs at the Cloud Native Apps Meetup and decided to share some thoughts around how the world has moved on when it comes to automation and what that means to the size of operations teams! Thinking about pizza size teams I immediately thought of …

Playing in the lab the today I came across a scenario in which a pks create-cluster failed; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 pks cluster team Name: team Plan Name: small UUID: 3ef60125-5f93-4b98-b50c-7050b6877fdc Last Action: CREATE Last Action State: failed Last Action Description: Instance provisioning …

Over the last couple of months I have been playing with Kubernetes (K8s) due to the addition of PKS (Pivotal Container Service) to the PCF offering. The 1st thing that I noticed after using PAS (Pivotal Application Service) for 18 months is that with K8s you have to do more things to get you …

A recent conversation got me thinking ….. a prospect has their development pipeline running through Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and we have been discussing Pivotal Cloud Foundry to run workloads. After the initial meeting two things sprung to mind; * I need to get a better …

We all like to make our lives easier in technology with tooling (well most of us do), be that CI/CD/monitoring/scans/git repos, however, how can we deploy these functions in a way that makes our lives easier? If you ask this same question to a group of architects/engineer you will get a long list …