Vault is a service developed by the fine engineers at Hashicorp, which is designed to safely secure any data you want: passwords, SSL certificates, application tokens, etc. Aptly named, it can be sealed by any authorized user, but can only be unsealed with the use of n keys (3 by default), so in the event of a breach a single bad actor can’t gain access to the system.
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Every scalable architecture needs to manage service discovery and application scaling. We accomplish this by utilizing the DR-CoN pattern (Docker-Registrator-Consul-Nginx) to load-balance web applications. Rerouting network traffic to healthy nodes and preventing applications from receiving too many requests are common needs for every infrastructure, and we can use this pattern to automate that process.
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Writing good code requires an understanding of how the language’s features fit together. Writing great code requires an understanding of how the code will actually run underneath. If you don’t, your code could cause huge hidden issues.
When we first started implementing our socket logic in Node.js, we didn’t have much experience with doing real-time operations with Node.js. We quickly learned that our socket experience with other stacks was of little use. The more we investigated, the less we understood. To find the solution, we first had to understand Node.js itself.
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Our team is excited to announce enhanced support for Docker Compose just in time for DockerCon 2017. Runnable provides on-demand staging environments for developers to integrate and test code changes earlier in the dev process. And now, developers using Docker Compose can create an unlimited number of multi-container staging and test environments with ease.
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I recently joined Runnable, a service that’s built on a service and event-driven architecture. Having come from a series of monoliths, it’s taken some adjustments, some of which go well beyond simple syntax. Using microservices and events changed the way I think.
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As a follow-up to our previous post on the versatility of Docker Compose, we wanted to emphasize how useful it can be to introduce Compose to your development workflow. Compose lets you take advantage of the benefits of Docker, while abstracting the complexity of your stack and of your Dockerfiles themselves. You may be used to running production images with Compose, but using it in development has benefits of its own.
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Last week, the Runnable team attended Google Cloud Next and had the privilege to speak with tons of developers and DevOps professionals. We kicked off the conference with the announcement of support for Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform. We also gave away a ton of swag and sparked several meaningful relationships. A big thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and said hi! It was awesome to meet and talk to so many of you.
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