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Building A Kubernetes Platform: How And Why To Apply Governance And Policy

A Platform, sometimes called an “internal developer platform,” is a unified infrastructure that allows development teams in a company to deliver applications rapidly and consistently. Out of the box, Kubernetes is a very powerful platform, but it’s too complicated and feature-rich to put in front of development teams as an internal developer platform without having some guardrails in place. Kubernetes is a perfect foundation for building a platform, however. It offers platform engineers many tools that allow them to provide developers with a more streamlined and safe approach to running applications. So, how do you build a platform that offers a great…
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Amazing Federated Multicloud Apps

Applications that span multiple public clouds are becoming more popular, especially with Kubernetes and containers, but think carefully. These days I hear a lot about the goal to run federated applications across cloud providers. We want to build these multicloud applications for many reasons, including: How to run federated applications Although there are many ways to do federated deployment of applications, let’s focus on the most popular: Kubernetes. You typically set up a Kubernetes container cluster that spans multiple cloud providers. This creates several choices. You can use Kubernetes Federation to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across different clouds as a…
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Resolving Deployment Issues With Ts-node And Azure Development Pipelines

In this article, we’ll explore common pitfalls and potential solutions when working with TypeScript (using ts-node) in Azure Serverless Development Pipelines. This piece is particularly valuable for developers encountering problems during the deployment process, often characterized by obscure error messages and puzzling behavior. We’ll take a practical, step-by-step approach, investigating these issues, delving into their root causes, and outlining strategies for fixing them. Whether you’re a seasoned developer, DevOps engineer, or a curious beginner eager to learn more about TypeScript and Azure DevOps, this comprehensive guide will serve as a valuable tool in navigating the intricacies of ts-node deployments in Azure pipelines. Problem Working…
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Four Steps To Managing Your Cloud Logging Costs On A Budget

As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on prem and in other clouds as well. Step 1: Analyze your current spending on logging tools To get started, create an itemized list of what volume of data is going where and what it costs. We’ll start with the billing report and the obvious line…
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Red Hat Puts Podman Container Management On The Desktop

Open-source GUI tool allows developers to create, deploy, and manage containers running locally or in remote Kubernetes clusters. Red Hat has released Podman Desktop 1.0, a graphical desktop client for creating, deploying, and managing containers. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Available at podman-desktop.io, Podman Desktop is an open source tool for working with containers and Kubernetes in a local environment. For Red Hat customers, the goal is to provide a frictionless development experience for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based enterprise container platform. Podman Desktop aims to simplify development, deployment, and management of containers while abstracting the underlying configuration,…
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Tricentis Launches Quality Engineering Community ShiftSync

New community to serve as destination hub for professionals passionate about the development of high-quality, high-performing, and highly secure software AUSTIN, TEXAS – May 23, 2023 – Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering, today announced the launch of ShiftSync, a new online community dedicated to quality engineering and open to all industry professionals interested in applying quality engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. ShiftSync is designed to foster a dynamic and engaging learning space for developers, testers, executives, and industry leaders, driving collaboration and lowering the quality engineering barrier to entry for the software development community. Members…
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Kubernetes Costs Less, But Less Than What?

Sure, compared to traditional IT, Kubernetes is great, but not much will beat public cloud in the long run. Let’s start with some gospel: In IT, there is no gospel. No definite “thou shalts” that always apply, 100% of the time. Thus spake Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO: “Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.” This goes for all smart IT strategies. The right answer for a given team in a certain circumstance won’t necessarily apply to another team in a slightly different circumstance. “It depends” is the only…
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KubeCon Europe 2023 Highlights Kubernetes Explosion And Need For Instant Platform Engineering

Guest post originally published on D2iQ’s blog by Michael Neubarth The CNCF’s flagship KubeCon Europe 2023 conference in Amsterdam last week was a vibrant sold-out affair that drew more than 10,000 attendees, 58% of whom were new to the conference, with another 2,000 people on the waitlist. As Futurum analyst Camberley Bates noted, “KubeCon Europe 2023 reflects the rising importance of this new platform.” It is not just about development, said Bates, “but rather all about the drive to adapt to the digital age of applications.”  Kubernetes is the IT infrastructure that will support the new apps and new development of the digital…
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Component-Based Development Has Been A Long Time Coming

The ability to build systems out of reusable and interchangeable parts has been growing for the past 30 years. We are finally getting there with cloud. Expect big changes in the near future. It was 1991, and I was sitting at yet another software development conference listening to a presentation on a new concept: developing applications from reusable and interchangeable parts or component-based development. The presenter made compelling comparisons with the manufacturing industry. We don’t build cars from scratch, building each part as we manufacture the car. We build cars from prebuilt components, such as steering systems, engines, drivetrains, and…
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The Next Generation Of Cloud Management And Automation

The use of conventional IT infrastructures has been gradually replaced by cloud-based technologies over the years. In recent years, cloud computing has been considered a more dependable and affordable alternative. Traditional computing is a concept that is easily explained. Physical data centers have traditionally been used to store digital data and administer the whole network infrastructure for a business. As a result, users of traditional computing can only access the data that is kept on the system on which it is kept, not the data that is kept on other devices or networks to which they are linked. Whereas cloud…
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