This week's guest blog is authored by Lee, one of our in-house DevOps engineers who works on developing our cloud products and streamlining our deployment processes. At UKFast, we utilise Kubernetes for a variety of applications such as websites and public-facing APIs. Historically, these applications have been deployed within virtual machines (VMs) and scaled manually with the use of a traditional load balancer. But with our applications now deployed within Kubernetes, we take advantage of the Kubernetes HPA (horizontal pod auto scaler). The HPA automatically scales pods based upon pre-configured metric thresholds such as CPU utilisation. Below, we'll walk through…
On 14th January 2020, Microsoft released a patch for 49 vulnerabilities affecting Windows Server 2016, Server 2019 and Windows 10. Of these, eight were marked as critical including CVE-2020-0603, CVE-2020-0605, CVE-2020-0606, CVE-2020-0646 CVE-2020-0609, CVE-2020-0610, CVE-2020-0611 and CVE-2020-0640. Window vulnerabilities explained:…