Markus Lippert

Kubernetes v1.22+ together with containerd v1.6+ introduced HostProcess containers for Windows nodes as an alpha feature. Like priviledged Linux containers this allows for many management scenarios like driver, networking and storage provisioning where host access is required. Running proxy tools like wins or csi-proxy on the host is now no... [Read More]

You certainly already heard about the licensing changes for Docker Desktop. I think spending some money for that is perfectly fine regarding the value Docker Desktop is providing to you. Those licensing changes however only apply to Docker Desktop. If you don’t need all the GUI and plumbing stuff like... [Read More]

The currently newest generation of CI/CD systems builds upon containers and Kubernetes as a runtime environment and uses Kubernetes resources like Jobs for running the steps of your pipeline. This enables reproducability and autoscaling for your CI/CD infrastructure. [Read More]

Running the ERP system Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is facilitated through Docker and the official images Microsoft provides. Taking this one step further and deploying Business Central to a cluster can be challenging however. I recently did a small survey and found it interesting that using Container orchestration for... [Read More]

Project Calico recently made Calico for Windows open-source. Before it was only available through a subscription. This means there is now another open-source networking plugin next to Flannel (and cloud-specific ones like Azure-CNI) which you can use for your mixed Kubernetes cluster with both Linux and Windows nodes. Calico for... [Read More]