Kubernetes cluster performance, resource management, and cost impact
Cluster performance impacts not only the performance of your workloads, but the bottom line of your business as a whole. Inefficient Kubernetes cluster performance can quickly lead to resource wastage, poor utilization, and higher cloud costs. This session…
Originally published on Magalix Blog by Mohamed Ahmed What is Kubernetes Scheduling? If you’ve read any Kubernetes documentation, books, or articles you’ve undoubtedly seen the word “schedule” in phrases like “the Pod gets scheduled to the next available node” for example. Kubernetes Scheduling…
Cloud native chaos engineering – Enhancing Kubernetes application resiliency
Guest post by Uma Mukkara, COO, MayaData Extending cloud native principles to chaos engineering Faults are bound to happen no matter how hard you test to find them before putting your software into production – clouds and availability…
KubeCon is only a few years old, but the conference dedicated to Kubernetes’ open-source platform for better managing containerized software applications has grown exponentially. According to a 2018 survey, more than 8,000 people attended last year’s event, which…
A hot AI startup relies on Kubernetes to support its exponential growth
AlphaSense had already been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. when it made Fortune’s Top 50 AI Startups list in 2017. “From this point, we realized that we needed to be prepared for exponential growth,”…
5 key traits of effective disaster recovery on Kubernetes
In the pre-Kubernetes, pre-container world, backup and recovery solutions were generally implemented at the virtual machine (VM) level. This system works for traditional applications when an application runs on a single VM, but when applications are containerized and…
YAML is optional: exploring an App Developer's Kubernetes options
This talk will focus on usability, and how current tooling like kubectl and YAML often falls short of serving an app developer’s goals. Speaking to NetApp’s work on ALM, in addition to touching on other recent developments in…
Kubernetes Autoscaling 101: Cluster Autoscaler, Horizontal Autoscaler, and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Originally published on Medium by Mohamed Ahmed Kubernetes at its core is a resources management and orchestration tool. It is ok to focus day-1 operations to explore and play around with its cool features to deploy, monitor and…
Announcing Kubernetes forums in Bengaluru and Delhi, India
We’re going to India! Following the inaugural Kubernetes forums in Seoul and Sydney, we’re heading to India for our next pair of events! We’ll be in Bengaluru from February 17-18, 2020, followed by Delhi from February 20-21, 2020….
Brigade: scripting container workflows on Kubernetes
Brigade is an in-cluster runtime that interprets scripts and executes generic pipelines of work in Kubernetes. Using JavaScript, developers can chain containers together in a script to create an event-driven workflow in Kubernetes. Scripts can define a series…