Lauri Suomalainen
Consultant
Lauri enjoys working with public clouds and automation. He has previously tinkered with OpenStack and AWS but is currently most excited about Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes. Besides geeky stuff Lauri is an avid climber, plays guitar in a band and is a board game fanatic.
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Blog
2023-12-07
11 minutes
Demystifying Service Level acronyms and Error Budgets
In this fundamental level blog post I will explain what different Service Level concepts mean and how to use them effectively in the software delivery process.
Podcast
2022-08-16
38 minutes
A sneak peek into UpCloud Kubernetes Service
In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).
Blog
2022-04-13
4 minutes
Verifa adopts an open salary policy
Our Open Salary Policy has taken many months to develop, but is now part of who we are and how we work. Let’s explore some of the changes this brings to us as a team.
Blog
2022-01-08
5 minutes
One year at Verifa: A retrospective
Our Cloud Architect, Lauri takes a look back at his first year as a consultant at Verifa.
Podcast
2021-03-30
33 minutes
A first look at GKE Autopilot
In Verifa's first podcast we discuss Google's new Autopilot for Kubernetes, and what it means to have a managed Kubernetes service.
Blog
2020-11-05
6 minutes
How to automatically deploy applications to a private GKE Cluster using CloudBuild
This article describes the problem of automatically deploying code to a private GKE cluster and my workaround solution to it.