SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
While Kubernetes is a relatively young technology, reaching version 1.0 in 2015, many IT organizations run large production workloads with mature Kubernetes and container deployments. For these advanced adopters, the information shared at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can expand…
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
With more than a dozen technical tracks and hundreds of sessions, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can prove daunting to a Kubernetes beginner. But as a low-cost virtual event in 2020, the conference presents a unique opportunity for Kubernetes adopters…
Debugging Kubernetes Applications on the Fly
Guest post originally published on Rookout’s blog by Josh Hendrick, Senior Solutions Engineer at Rookout Over the recent years, software development organizations have seen a major shift in where they build and run their applications. Teams have transitioned…
Hack my mis-configured Kubernetes – privileged pods
Guest post by Or Kamara, Engineering Team Lead at Snyk The ease of use of Kubernetes can create some big security holes when introducing changes without understanding their effects. The purpose of this hands-on tutorial is to explore…
MicroK8s HA under the hood: Kubernetes with Dqlite
High availability (HA) is the cornerstone of any production-grade Kubernetes. MicroK8s, already popular for IoT and developer workstations, can, as of release 1.19, withstand the loss of any node and still provide reliable services for production workloads in…
The abc’s of Kubernetes security
As more mainstream IT organizations adopt Kubernetes and cloud-native application architectures, they often identify as one of their main concerns the ability to do so securely. (Interestingly, this almost precisely matches concerns about adopting virtual machine architectures fifteen…
Container Journal: “CNCF Graduates Rook to Automate Kubernetes Storage Tasks”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Rook, an open source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes clusters, at a time when the number of stateful applications being built and deployed using containers is starting to increase. Rook automates…
Automating Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Config With Argo CD
Guest post originally published on DoiT’s blog by Mike Sparr, Sr Cloud Architect at DoiT International One of the coolest aspects of Google’s Anthos enterprise solution in my opinion is Anthos Config Management (ACM). You can set up a Git…
Rebuilding Linkerd’s continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Actions
Guest post originally published on the Bouyant blog by Andrew Seigner This post is a writeup of a talk Andrew gave at KubeCon EU 2020. Introduction In mid-2019, the Linkerd project’s continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests…
SiliconANGLE: “Rook graduates from the CNCF, enabling persistent storage for Kubernetes apps”
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which houses the open-source Kubernetes project and other cloud-native technology initiatives, said today that Rook has become its latest project to graduate. Rook is an open-source, cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, which is…