Today we’re happy to announce that Birdwatcher is now available on ​our company’s GitHub page. Birdwatcher accesses Calico/BIRD metrics through Prometheus. If you’re a user of both Calico and Prometheus, be sure to give it a try. Enjoy!

Kumina is sponsoring CloudABI: CloudABI is a UNIX-like programming environment for Linux and the BSDs that allows you to easily design sandboxed applications. It accomplishes this by making strong use of capability-based security, inspired by the University of Cambridge’s Capsicum. Compared to traditional UNIX applications, CloudABI applications are better resistent against security vulnerabilities, easier to test and easier to maintain. CloudABI is available as Open Source Software, free of charge.

Today we’re glad to announce that we’re releasing Buckler as open source software. Buckler is free alternative to Shield, a light-weight proxy for Kibana, written in Python (Django). It allows you to restrict access in Kibana by adding password authentication. When logged in, a user is only allowed to access indices specified for that user in Buckler’s configuration file.

Heb jij ervaring met Linux (Debian) en ben je op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging binnen een open maar professionele werkomgeving? Dan is Kumina misschien wel dé plek voor jou. We zijn een groeiend bedrijf en momenteel op zoek naar een Debian Linux Systeembeheerder die ons team wil komen versterken.

At Kumina, we’re strong users of the Amazon AWS cloud computing platform. We’ve been using EC2 instances for quite some time and are currently working on expanding this by making use of Kubernetes. To further optimise our solutions, we’ve developed a new utility called awssyncer, which is as of now available on GitHub! awssyncer is a utility written in C++ that uses Linux’s inotify to keep track of local modifications to a directory on disk. The purpose of this utility is to use these inotify events to determine which files need to be synced back into S3. This utility thus provides continuous one-way sychronisation from local disk to S3. A simple container startup script is used to sync files from S3 to local disk on startup. Though we realise that this utility is fairly specific to our situation at hand, we do invite all of you to give it a try.

*Update: Deze vacature is inmiddels vervuld. Kumina is echter altijd op zoek naar gemotiveerde Linux experts. Stuur ons gerust een open sollicitatie op jobs@kumina.nl.* Heb jij ervaring met Linux (Debian) en ben je op zoek naar een nieuwe uitdaging binnen een open maar professionele werkomgeving? Dan is Kumina misschien wel dé plek voor jou. We […]

Outsourcing your IT is a big decision and can have many consequences for your organisation. Therefore it is very important that you make sure you are ready for it, and that you go into business with the right company. That is why we created an Infographic to help you determine if IT Outsourcing is the right solution for you. Find out about the benefits of IT Outsourcing and the factors you need to consider when choosing an IT Outsourcing company.

Kumina is een groeiend bedrijf en we hebben de ambitie om nog verder te groeien! Momenteel zijn we op zoek naar een Debian Linux Systeembeheerder die ons team wil komen versterken.