Ansible – Solving my documentation pet peeve
As a DevOps engineer, I find myself far more comfortable iterating over lists or writing conditional statements than finding fancy words to document my code. Since Ansible is
My journey with LSD
Amor Pienaar tells us about her journey with LSD, from beginning to present day.
Observability: Cloud-Native Deep Distributed Systems Insight with LSDobserve
Introduction Modern problems require modern solutions. Just a few years ago we noticed a trickle of interest from our clients in moving their old development and deployment methodo
Configuring Active Directory authentication for Rancher 2.5.x
Rancher config for AD Pre-requisites Rancher allows several auth mechanisms to be used to authenticate users of the cluster. One of the more tricky to set up options is the Microso
Why every line of code you write should be under version control
There was a time in my career when I did not use any form of version control. Well, actually, I did. I basically copied the folder I was working on and appended a date to it. I sur
LSD joins CNCF, becomes a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider via IT Web
We’ve got some big news! Earlier this month, LSD joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and became a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. We can gush about how
Why should you care about cloud native?
Most of what we speak about at LSD OPEN is focused on either cloud native or Kubernetes – not exclusively about how cool it is or all the amazing things we can come up with u
Starting a New Job at LSD during Lockdown in South Africa
Gary Jonas is part of the LSD tech team and hit the ground running! We asked him if he would be interested in writing something about his journey with LSD so far. You can find Gary
“ThunderStruck! When Clouds scare the hell out of you” by Neil White via Medium
Neil White is LSD OPEN’s technical director and is often involved in the internal infrastructure part of the company. Recently, he ran into a particularly scary problem with
LSD in the news: “SA firms start investing their cash in Bitcoin”, via TechCentral
LSD OPEN was recently featured in a TechCentral piece written by editor Duncan McLeod, on leadership’s decision to bring Bitcoin onto our books. Duncan takes a look at the de