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Kubernetes Multi-cluster Service Discovery using the AWS Cloud Map MCS Controller

The AWS Cloud Map MCS Controller for Kubernetes is an open source project that implements the upstream multi-cluster services API (mcs-api) specification. Learn all about the mcs-api, and how to deploy the AWS MCS Controller in support of seamless, multi-cluster workload deployments on Amazon EKS.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 13 Jan 2022 • 18 min read

Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS External Instance Network Sentry (eINS)

The eINS has been designed to provide an additional layer of resilience for ECS Anywhere external instances in deployment scenarios where connectivity to the on-region ECS control-plane may be unreliable or intermittent.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 11 Sep 2021 • 10 min read

Kubernetes

Secure workload isolation with Amazon EKS Distro and Kata Containers

Combining Kata Containers with Amazon EKS Distro provides secure VM workload isolation on the same secure Kubernetes distribution that runs on Amazon EKS.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 1 May 2021 • 12 min read

Cloud Native

Building a CLI utility for managing cloud services lifecycle using the OCI Go SDK

Oracle provide a number of SDKs for OCI. okectl is a CLI utility designed to automate cloud service lifecycle operations. This post provides an overview of the OCI Go SDK, and explores how okectl implements the Go SDK to orchestrate cloud services including Kubernetes clusters running on OKE.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 18 Apr 2020 • 11 min read

Cloud Native

Deploying Grafeas to Oracle OKE (Container Engine for Kubernetes)

Grafeas is an open artifact metadata API designed to help audit and govern your software supply chain. Tracking Grafeas’ metadata can give you confidence about what containers are in your environment, and also provides the ability to enforce restrictions on which containers get deployed.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 4 Apr 2020 • 8 min read

Serverless

Deploying an Oracle Serverless Function to upload OCI Usage Reports to the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

In this tutorial I'll take you through a deployment scenario on OCI, whereby an Oracle Function (i.e. a managed serverless function) will be deployed to automatically to retreive OCI Usage Reports, and upload the data to an Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) instance.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 26 Mar 2020 • 10 min read

Kubernetes

Integrating Hashicorp Vault with OKE (Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes)

Overview of a HashiCorp Vault deployment scenario on OKE, whereby Vault will be both deployed to OKE, and integrated with the OKE cluster control plane using the Vault Kubernetes Auth Method.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 26 Mar 2020 • 5 min read

Kubernetes

Scheduling OCI CLI commands to run via a Kubernetes CronJob

In this blog post I'll show you how to configure a Kubernetes CronJob to run Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI commands automatically, on a recurring schedule. In the example solution, we'll be scheduling the invocation of an Oracle Serverless Function.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 26 Mar 2020 • 8 min read

Serverless

Working with HTTP in Oracle Functions using the Fn Project Python FDK

When working with both the Fn Project and the Oracle Functions service, it's possible to access information about the invocation, function, and execution environment from within a running function - including HTTP properties such as custom HTTP headers and HTTP query parameters.

Cameron Senese

Cameron Senese 25 Mar 2020 • 5 min read

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