From IP to identity: making cattle out of pets in cloud native
Community post by Bill Mulligan From one bit modifying the next to frontend talking to backend, IT is fundamentally about identity, who is talking to what and what is the outcome of their interaction. This concept of identity…
Building resilience with Chaos Engineering and Litmus
Member post originally published on the InfraCloud blog by Ruturaj Kadikar Microservices architecture is a popular choice for businesses today due to its scalability, agility, and continuous delivery. However, microservices architectures are not immune to outages. Outages can…
Using Kyverno with Pod Security Admission
Guest post originally published on the Kyverno blog by Kyverno Maintainers Using Pod Security Admission with Kyverno for the best of both worlds. Pod Security Admission (PSA) is the built-in successor to Kubernetes PodSecurityPolicy (PSP) and is enabled by default starting…
Plaid: pain-free deployments at global scale
By Mark Robinson, Infrastructure Engineer, Plaid How to let hundreds of deployments every day work without tears Plaid is the engine behind the world’s most successful fintech applications, supporting over 10,000 banks globally. To achieve that, our engineering…
Linkerd edge roundup: 21 June 2023
Project post originally published on the Linkerd blog by Matei David Linkerd’s edge releases are a big part of our development process that we’re going to start talking more about – and so far in June, we’ve done…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to join the…
Dynamic request routing and circuit breaking
Project post originally published on the Linkerd Blog by Flynn This blog post is based on a workshop that I recently delivered at Buoyant’s Service Mesh Academy. If this seems interesting, check out the full recording! Linkerd 2.13 adds two…
Deploying Linkerd in the Cloud: Azure, AWS, or GCP
Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Michael Levan As discussed in my introduction to Linkerd, service meshes provide important, powerful security, reliability, and observability features. And although many engineers shy away from implementing a service mesh due…
Why large engineering teams are testing on Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on the Signadot blog by Nica Mellifera Introduction In the last few years we’ve seen development teams move away from purely local development, and a more cloud-based developer environment. The goal is increased development…
Optimized Kubernetes cluster architecture: considerations and best practices
Guest post originally published on the ARMO blog by Rotem Refael, Director of Engineering, ARMO Kubernetes is a powerful platform for managing containerized applications at scale, but configuring a Kubernetes cluster can be complex and challenging. In this…