Kubernetes

Assessing Reliability Risks On Kubernetes Clusters
The VMware Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team is proud to announce an open source Reliability Scanner for Kubernetes! It includes an extensible set of reliability assessments, or checks, performed against various components of a cluster, such as Pods, Namespaces, Services, etc. Operators can then configure appropriate constraints for the checks on their clusters. Here is …

Red Hat Introduces Data Resilience For Enterprise Kubernetes Applications
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, introduced new data resilience capabilities for cloud-native workloads with the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6. This offering from Red Hat Data Services enables customers to extend their existing data protection solutions and infrastructure to enhance data resilience for cloud-native workloads across …

An Introduction To Kubernetes Security Using Falco
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Frederick Fernando Let’s talk about Kubernetes security As Kubernetes continues to grow in adoption, it is important for us to know how to secure it. In a dynamic infrastructure platform such as Kubernetes, detecting and addressing threats is important but also challenging at the same time. Falco, …

Learn How To Get Observability Into Your Applications With New KubeAcademy Course
When developing applications for Kubernetes, which is a distributed system, developers and platform engineers need to know both how to monitor them and understand how they impact their business. There are several tools available to instrument Kubernetes clusters and code, but figuring out which options are the right ones can be challenging. That’s why we …

3 Serverless Strategies To Look For In 2021
These serverless applications development and deployment approaches are driving fast-adoption of the DevApps practice today. If you had at least one chance to attend business and technologies conferences recently, you probably saw lots of DevOps strategies, Agilist, and DevSecOps engineers around the digital transformation track. No matter what business you work in, it’s no secret that DevOps is …

8 Kubernetes Insights For 2021
Review the top five Kubernetes articles of 2020, then preview three tools you should learn about in 2021. The end of the year is the perfect time to look back and explore where we’ve been and where we’re going in the Kubernetes world. I particularly want to focus on the ecosystem that formed around Kubernetes …

Multicloud Kubernetes Management With Lens
Numerous reports have consistently shown that enterprises today embrace hybrid and multicloud as their preferred modes of IT infrastructure deployment. According to a survey done by IDG, more than half (55%) of organizations currently use multiple public clouds, with 21% saying they use three or more. As developers are becoming acclimated to building and shipping …

6 Container Concepts You Need To Understand
Containers are everywhere, and they’ve radically changed the IT landscape. What do you need to know about them? Containerization has radically changed the IT landscape because of the significant value and wide array of benefits it brings to business. Nearly any recent business innovation has containerization as a contributing factor, if not the central element. …

Three ways Google Cloud Delivers On Hybrid And Multicloud, Today
Our mission at Google Cloud is to accelerate your ability to digitally transform and reimagine your business through data-powered innovation. To stay true to our mission we made the choice to embrace an open cloud approach early on. This is reflected in our contributions to projects like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Knative, Go and many more. On …

Solving Configuration Drift Using GitOps With Argo CD
Argo CD (part of the Argo project) is a deployment solution for Kubernetes that follows the GitOps paradigm. Deploying to Kubernetes with Argo CD In the most basic scenario, Argo CD continuously monitors a Git repository with Kubernetes manifests (Helm and Kustomize are also supported) and listens for commit events. When a commit happens …