These Kubernetes mistakes will make you an easy target for hackers
Kubernetes is exceedingly powerful for orchestrating containerized applications at scale. But without proper monitoring and observability—especially in self-managed infrastructure—it can quickly become a security disaster waiting to happen. This is not due to inherent flaws in…
What Karpenter v1.0.0 means for Kubernetes autoscaling
Member post by Rajdeep Saha, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS and Praseeda Sathaye, Principal SA, Containers & OSS, AWS Introduction Karpenter is an open-source project that provides node lifecycle management to optimize the efficiency and cost of running workloads…
Community blog post by Reza Ramezanpour, developer advocate at Tigera Kubernetes is known for its modularity, and its integration with cloud environments. Throughout its history, Kubernetes provided in-tree cloud provider integrations with most providers, allowing us…
A step-by-step guide to securely upgrading your EKS clusters
Member post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Stevie Caldwell As an agile open source project, Kubernetes continues to evolve, as does the cloud computing landscape. Keeping up with the latest versions isn’t practical for many…
Optimizing the construction of the VM ecosystem with KubeVirt
Ambassador post by Zou Nengren Two months ago, we were thrilled to share insights in the article “Best Practices for Migrating VM Clusters to KubeVirt 1.0.” As previously mentioned, we have selected AlmaLinux and Kubernetes 1.28…
Kubernetes 1.29: the security perspective
Member post originally published on ARMO’s blog by Ben Hirschberg, CTO & Co-founder at ARMO Kubernetes 1.29 will be the last release from the Kubernetes team for 2023. The new release has 49 enhancements, with a multitude of…
Keeping secrets secure on Kubernetes
Member post originally published on the CyberArk blog by John Walsh Handling secrets in cloud-native environments is a challenge for many organizations. Virtually any application requires some sort of secret, such as a database password, a…
Embracing Cgroup V2: Best Practices for Migrating Kubernetes Clusters to AlmaLinux
Ambassador post by Zou Nengren With the announcement of CentOS discontinuation by the CentOS community , along with the set dates for service termination, we have put the switch to a new container operating system on…
Tuning EMQX to scale to one million concurrent connections on Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Burhan (SRE) and Tushar (Sr. SRE) at InfraCloud Technologies When building an IoT-based service, we need to implement a messaging mechanism that transmits data collected by the IoT…
OpenKruise v1.4 release: new job sidecar terminator capability
Guest post by OpenKruise maintainers OpenKruise (https://github.com/openkruise/kruise) is an open-source cloud-native application automation management suite. It is also a current incubating project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is a standard extension component…