What is cloud native? Let’s start with a definition. According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ‘cloud native’ can be defined as “technologies that empower organisations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds”. Essentially it is a technology that is purposefully built to make […]

14 July – Johannesburg LSD today announced that it is augmenting its Managed Kubernetes Platform with SUSE Rancher solution offering by achieving SUSE Platinum partner and Managed Service Provider (MSP) status. Currently, LSD is the only partner to achieve Platinum status in Sub-Saharan Africa. These achievements are a key part of LSD’s strategy of delivering […]

Today, I’m a TKGi platform developer and for the most part I develop Concourse CI pipelines. Specifically, I build and maintain pipelines that build foundations that other pipelines use to build custom Kubernetes clusters! For a while now, I’ve been meaning to blog a bit about my own personal “digital transformation”. I went from a […]

IMAGINE A HOUSE This is your house and you have many different rooms in your house.  You have your room which you are most familiar with.  You know what is in there, you know where to find stuff, you know where you might have hidden stuff that you don’t want anyone else to know about […]

This is Part 2 in the Red Hat Hackfest review series. Click here to read Part 1. After finding out about the use case and receiving the hardware (thanks again Red Hat, Intel and IBM), we set off on getting the base software installed on the devices. Setting up the hardware consisted of installing Single-node Openshift […]

BUILDING AN EDGE COMPUTING USE-CASE FOR HACKFEST Editor’s note – We are very proud of Team LSD winning Red Hat Hackfest 2021. The team comprised of Seagyn Davis and Julian Gericke, who put all of this together over the month of November and bowled the judges over with their winning project. To give more context […]