Recent Posts by Mickey Boxell

We are excited to announce the general availability of container image scanning, signing, and verification. This new suite of capabilities helps you ensure the security of your cloud native software deployments. Imagine a software development team working to deliver a business-critical application that passes sensitive data. A developer commits code to a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) tool kicking off a build process. Then, the CICD tool pushes the newly...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) reduces the operational burden of creating and operating enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters, used to deploy containerized applications to the cloud. Oracle manages your cluster resources and automates reoccurring Kubernetes administration and scaling tasks to simplify Kubernetes operations. Until now, OKE customers have used pod-level autoscaling to meet their changing resource requirements. This...

We are pleased to announce that Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry (OCIR) have been added to the FedRAMP high authorized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Government data regions. These services have received US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provisional authority to operate (P-ATOs) and authority to operate (ATOs) as defined by FedRAMP. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Fed...

We are excited to announce the general availability of built-in Kubernetes monitoring for all Container Engine for Kubernetes Service (OKE) supported regions. The new integrated monitoring capability provides OKE users with a number of essential health and performance metrics. Users can drill down on metrics critical to monitoring resource operations from their OKE clusters, node pools, and nodes. These metrics can be viewed using the OKE and OCI Monitoring consoles....

Oracle Code is a developer-focused, free event in which attendees are encouraged to explore the latest technologies, practices, and development trends. The presenters are technical experts, product developers, industry leaders, and representatives from startups and enterprises with interesting and groundbreaking use cases. The educational experience is interactive and takes place in keynotes, sessions, workshops, demos, and hands-on labs. In April I had the chance to present...

Keynote Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending DevOpsDays Rockies at the Mile High Station and Iron Works in Denver, Colorado. This was a two day conference focused on the intersection between software development and IT operations. The conference started off on a fun foot when I found myself along with another person stuck on a freeway overpass overlooking the event venue thanks to some poor Google Maps walking directions. As it so happened, the person I was stuck...

This blog was originally published on Medium on March 13, 2019.  Introduction Traditional development workflows are relatively straightforward: Step 1: Write and build code. Step 2: Test and fix code. Step 3: Deploy code. Step 4: Identify issues and iterate. In addition to the steps above, container native applications come with new considerations. After compiling your code, it will have to be built into an image. Rather than deploying to a single virtual machine you have to connect...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Data Source for Grafana Oracle Cloud Native Labs is focused on building customer-deployable cloud native and container native solutions to bridge the gap between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and open source communities. This article was originally published at: https://grafana.com/blog/2019/02/25/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-as-a-data-source-for-grafana/ Developers and enterprises are increasingly concerned with vendor lock-in and cloud sprawl....

Kubernetes Command Line Tools Introduction If you are someone who frequently interacts with a Kubernetes cluster, you may find yourself frustrated by the time spent typing out repetitive commands. One way to reduce this frustration is through the use of CLI tools for kubectl, the Kubernetes command line interface. This article will highlight several tools used to simplify usage of kubectl and save you time. shell autocompletion: Autocompletion for Kubectl kubectx & kubens:...