3 Models for Consuming Kubernetes in the Cloud

A Brief History on the Growth Explosion of Containers

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A couple of years ago, Linux containers began to gain popularity among devs and ops folks alike. It was a win win scenario as the benefits of containers to both dev and ops are clear. As time moved along and the adoption of containers in production workloads exceeded many people’s expectations, the world needed a way to manage container lifecycles at scale.

Enter Kubernetes, while it is not the only proven open source container manager out there (see Docker Swarm & Mesos,) it certainly has the majority share of voice in the community. Originally a Google project that was a core component of their internal Borg system, it has since been open sourced and embraced by companies like Microsoft and Red Hat (OpenShift is powered by Kubernetes.) Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Cloud 66 vs. Heroku – A Detailed Comparison & Business Case

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With the Canadian dollar on the decline and the high cost of popular US-based PaaS providers like Heroku, we are finding that more and more Canadian based SaaS providers, agency development shops and IT departments are on the lookout for an alternative solution that provide similar functionality at a lower cost.

You do not have to look very far. It is no secret that we are huge fans of our partner, Cloud 66. Cloud 66 provides full stack container management-as-a-service. What does this mean? Cloud 66 is DevOps-as-a-service and it provides you with everything you need to deploy, scale and protect your applications on a number of approved public clouds, including Cloud-A.

Let’s take a look at how Cloud 66 + Cloud-A stacks up against Heroku.

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Deploy a Gitlab Server on Cloud-A with Cloud 66 and Docker

This quick start guide will show how to setup & configure a docker based Gitlab git repository platform in just minutes!

Gitlab allows development teams to create, review and deploy code together and has integrations for tons of tools such as Slack, Hipchat, LDAP, JIRA, Jenkins, many types of hooks and a complete API.

Gitlab is a great first step in building out your continuous integration / deployment and test/dev environments on Cloud-A.

What you will need before you get started :

  • Cloud-A account (free $10+ trial here) – Canada’s Favourite Public Cloud Provider
  • Cloud 66 account (free 14 day trial here) – Highly recommended Container management-as-a-Service Partner