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Investigating kpack – Continuously Updating Docker Images with Cloud Native Buildpacks

Docker images don’t grow on trees, but you shouldn’t buy them from Etsy either. What I mean is, you don’t want your company running on bespoke artisan Docker images based on source code and upstream dependencies that you can’t reproduce 50 times a day, and can’t keep continually updated and secure for the next 10

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From the Interns: Introducing SHIELD etcd Plugin

This guest post is brought to you by our four Summer 2019 Interns, Jason Zhou, Naveed Ahmad, Pururva Lakkad, and Sriniketh Varma Dasarraju. We spent the summer over at Stark & Wayne designing and building the etcd plugin for SHIELD. The basic functionalities include backing up data from etcd and then restoring this data to

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Dockerizing our Jumpboxen

A long time ago, we at Stark & Wayne faced a problem with jumpboxen. Every environment needs one, and they have to have all the right tooling loaded on them. We were treating them as a bit of the infrastructure, which meant that we let client infrastructure teams stand them up. A CentOS VM over

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Creating an App Registration in Azure

You want to automate the deployment of your Azure infrastructure. Great! But now you need to create an account for your automation to access Azure’s API. Azure implements these in the form of what they call App Registrations. In order to create one, you will need access to create accounts in Azure Active Directory. If

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Starting the Genesis Roadmap Calls

This month (August of 2019), we started holding regularly scheduled Roadmap Calls, where the developers and release engineers working on Genesis provide updates, explain where we are at in the roadmap, where we want to go, and answer questions form anyone who pops in. We’ll be holding these calls on the 3rd Tuesday of every

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(Re)Starting the SHIELD Roadmap Calls

This month (August of 2019), we resumed holding regularly scheduled Roadmap Calls, where the developers and release engineers working on SHIELD provide updates, explain where we are at in the roadmap, where we want to go, and answer questions from anyone who pops in. We’ll be holding these calls on the 4th Thursday of every

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From the Interns: Getting SHIELD up and Running via Docker

This guest post is brought to you by Naveed Ahmad and Pururva Lakkad from our Summer 2019 Internship program. We are interning here at Stark & Wayne for the summer. As mentioned earlier at the blog, we had to choose one project out of the four amazing ones. As a team, we’ve decided to work

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CF Push App: ERR Downloading Failed

What you easily see are usually consequences or symptoms, but not the root cause. “The Dev environment is down!!!” We heard louder screams from developers when the busy dev env was down than when the production environment was down. We dropped whatever we were doing and wanted to stop those screams as fast as we

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From the Interns: Our Internship Experience at Stark & Wayne

This guest post is brought to you by our four Summer 2019 Interns, Jason Zhou, Naveed Ahmad, Pururva Lakkad, and Sriniketh Varma Dasarraju. Over the summer, we had the incredible privilege of interning at Stark & Wayne. Stark & Wayne is the premier BOSH, Cloud Foundry, and Cloud Native consulting firm. To be honest, these

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