Kubernetes patterns: capacity planning
Guest post by Mohamed Ahmed, originally published on the Magalix Blog An excellent cloud-native application design should declare any specific resources that it needs to operate correctly. Kubernetes uses those requirements to make the most efficient…
12 Kubernetes configuration best practices
Guest post by Ajmal Kohgadai, originally published on StackRox By now most of us have heard about the role human error plays in causing data breaches. The Capital One breach from July is just the latest…
Building Kubernetes operators in an ansible-native way
Operators simplify management of complex applications on Kubernetes. They are usually written in Go and require expertise with the internals of Kubernetes. But, there’s an alternative to that with a lower barrier to entry. Ansible is…
Contour – High performance ingress controller for Kubernetes
Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy. Contour supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation out of the box while maintaining a lightweight…
Announcing Kubernetes Community Days
We are excited to announce that we’re now accepting applications to run Kubernetes Community Days around the world. Kubernetes Community Days are community-organized events that gather adopters and technologists from open source and cloud native communities…
How DENSO is fueling development on the Vehicle Edge with Kubernetes
Cars that update like smartphones, adjusting features based on the driver’s preferences? The future is now for Japan’s DENSO Corporation, one of the biggest automotive components suppliers in the world. With the advent of connected cars,…
InfoQ: "Helm as a package manager for Kubernetes: Q&A with Helm Founder Matt Butcher"
At the recently concluded Helm Summit in Amsterdam, the Helm project was front, left and center. Helm is already a defacto package manager for the Kubernetes community and is on the verge of entering Cloud Native…
Feeding the Kubernetes beast: bringing locality back to data workloads
While adoption of the Cloud & Kubernetes have made it exceptionally easy to scale compute, the increasing spread of data across different systems and clouds has created new challenges for data engineers. Effectively accessing data from…
Jaxenter: "Kubernetes 1.16 introduces highly scalable Endpoint slices"
Kubernetes’ third release in 2019 has landed. Version 1.16 revolves around three main themes: Custom resources, overhauled metrics, and volume extension. It includes 31 enhancements in total. Users can install the newest version with kubeadm. Get…
Data protection for applications running on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is now the de-facto platform to deploy and manage stateless applications. It is also making strides for deploying and managing stateful applications. Managing stateful applications is more than provisioning and relocating containers upon failures. Stateful…