Authordsezen

AWS Re:Invent 2023 Recap

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE POST:

https://www.kloia.com/blog/reinvent-2023-recap

How will the pandemic affect geo-based salary policies?

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

How will the pandemic affect geo-based salary policies?

[TR] Relocation mı yoksa TR den yurtdışına remote mu?

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

 

[TR] Yeni yazım: Relocation mı yoksa TR den yurtdışına remote mu?

 

How my OpenShift vs Rancher comparison blogpost gone viral?

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

I would like to share my story about how my Blogpost Openshift vs Rancher gone viral, which is:

  • On the top page when you search Openshift vs Rancher on Google (The first two,  rancher.com and kloia.com both pointing to my comparison)
  • Viewed more than 250.000 times
  • Several comments from the readers
  •  Republished by the vendor itself 
  • Translated by several consultancies in different countries

 

As kloia, our engineering team focus became dominantly Kubernetes for the platform projects, where OpenShift was a dominant player especially after the acquisition of IBM. We have been implementing OpenShift in one of our major Enterprise customer. Since we are an engineering company, our consultants became frustrated with OpenShift with the following feedbacks:

  • OpenShift has its own way of doing things, no CNCF 
  • No/less engineering, more operator mindset
  • Major problems during version upgrades
  • Vendor-lock

As an engineering-driven company, (Decisions are given by the engineering team, rather than Sales) we stopped working with RedHat, although we invested a lot with certifications and time…

Meanwhile, we began also experimenting with Rancher in several projects and I decided to make such an honest comparison by the end of 2019 based on

  • Our engineering team’s feedback
  • My own experience
  • Several customer feedback
  • Technical evidence

 

My intention was to reveal the realities, as an engineer who has been in the “Pledge to Professionalism” ceremony during my graduation:)

  • I gathered data from anyone who can contribute: internal, external
  • I interviewed several professionals: The ones using OpenShift, the ones using Rancher…

Based on all those data, I began to write an honest comparison.

There have been major debates around that post on social media and also in the comments of the post (I published all comments regardless of the positive or negative views, except the ones which have annoying language)

In a conclusion, I think the honesty of the comparison and maybe the reason I expressed how the engineering mindset professionals feel working with OpenShift made the success of that blogpost. It was not intentional, all happened organically!

 

My latest Blogpost: Remote ≠ Home

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

During the pandemic, many companies have gone remote, while many of them struggling with it as their processes are not remote-complaint.

In Kloia, we were already Remote even before the pandemic.

I tried to explain that Remote does not necessarily mean Home and some aspects that we find important for this transition:

https://www.kloia.com/blog/remote-is-not-home

 

 

How CloudFlare helps to painless migrate your WordPress website to HTTPS?

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

cloudflare

Google recently announced that, Chrome will alert “NOT SECURE” for the websites not running under HTTPS:
Starting October 2017, Chrome (version 62) will show a “NOT SECURE” warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page, and for all HTTP pages in Incognito mode.
In case you have a WordPress site, there are 2 main ways to do that:
1- Converting WordPress to HTTPS mode:
1-a: Change the site URL: The siteurl can only be changed by command line. Find the wp-config.php and update it.
1-b: Change the existing http links: Go to DB and update the links. Beside in case there are plugins which inject their code seperately, you need find all. This is very painful!
1-c: Create a SSL certificate and verify it on a certificate authority.
2- Keeping WordPress a usual and use CloudFlare:
2-a Force HTTPS
cloudflare_alwayshttps
2-b Enable HTTPS Rewrite: This is the crucial point. By that, you do not need to edit WordPress http links, as CloudFlare will be replacing them on the fly! (In case you are not under HSTS, it will not replace image links)
cloudflare_hsts01

cloudflare_hsts02

2-c Now you should see that links except images are not converted on the fly. Go to https://hstspreload.org and register your domain for HSTS.

**** Be careful! All subdomains and subsubdomains from now on should work under https! ****

So check all your DNS records. With Coudflare, you are lucky, if traffic passes via CloudFlare, it will a common SSL certificate
hstspreload01

hstspreload02

hstspreload03

Rancher on Google Cloud with Cloud SQL as DB

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

Here is my latest kloia blog post: 

 

https://blog.kloia.com/rancher-on-google-cloud-with-cloud-sql-as-db-4775326f7bab

Kubernetes on Rancher with Weave

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

Here is my post on kloia blog:

 

https://blog.kloia.com/kubernetes-on-rancher-with-weave-db5319361b78

DevOps Turkey DockerCon16 Recap

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

The DockerCon16 Recap presentation i performed during DevOps Turkey Meetup link is here.

DevOpsDays Istanbul 2016 Ignite

Facebooktwittergoogle_pluslinkedinmailby feather

My ignite link during the conference is here.


visited 41 states (18.2%)

Follow me on Strava