Running Kubernetes in Production: Make Sure Your Routing Strategy Works
Managing Kubernetes deployments in production raises some rather complex challenges. The dynamic nature of network communication in containerized environments produces unique operational issues–capable of bewildering even experienced DevOps teams. To mitigate these issues, software-based routing components offer key advantages across a number of areas. Here are a few particularly important routing strategies to consider within […]
Day 2 for the Operator Ecosystem
The original focus for Kubernetes was very much on stateless applications, which don’t rely on coordination between instances or sharing data between client sessions. In practice, that usually means that we can stop and start our stateless applications without data loss or impacting on client connections. If all applications were stateless, the world of application […]
Catch Emerging Security Risks Earlier by Leveraging Kubernetes Audit Logs
When a Kubernetes deployment suffers a security breach, it can be difficult for security teams to diagnose and identify the source of the intrusion and its impact. Each Kubernetes cluster may host multiple applications, and each application may be composed of dozens or even hundreds of interacting microservices deployed as pods. The complex and dynamic […]
Top Six Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes and Docker
Kubernetes and Docker are two of the most commonly heard buzzwords in modern DevOps conversations. Docker is a tool that enables you to containerize and run your applications, and Kubernetes provides you with a platform to orchestrate or manage these containers—since managing thousands of containers manually using the Docker CLI would be a practical nightmare. […]
DevOps Chats: Kubernetes is the New Compute, with Rancher Labs’ Sheng Liang
Rancher Labs is a great example of a startup that was smart enough to sense the way the market was moving and adopted a strategy to capitalize on it. And, if you know Rancher co-founder, CEO Sheng Liang, you should not be surprised. Sheng has been seeing the market and staying one step ahead for […]
Red Hat Updates OpenStack Platform
Red Hat today made available an update to its distribution of OpenStack that enables it to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system. Sean Cohen, senior manager for product management at Red Hat, said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 combines three releases of OpenStack, known as “Rocky,” “Stein” and “Train” into a […]
The Acceleration of Data and Data Storage Trends
There’s never been a more exciting time for data. Increasing demands for size, speed, performance and reliance have propelled the data market forward at a faster rate than could have ever been anticipated, and new technologies are making some dreams for data a reality. From open source adoption in place of legacy databases to cloud-native […]
Trends and Benefits of Serverless Computing
Gartner estimated that by 2020, 20% of the world’s organizations will have gone serverless. Serverless computing initiates a mind shift in the way businesses are run and improves the accuracy and impact of technology services. Leading to higher functionality, reduced AWS bills, increased delivery speed and multi-cloud support, serverless computing paves the way into the […]
Building a Real-Time App: 13 Open Source Projects You Should Be Tracking Right Now
Open source is the dominant model of software consumption in the modern era. Cutting-edge startups and entrenched incumbents alike find open source software development and community building a significant part of their overall business strategies. For many open source projects, independent steering committees ensure that projects remain stable and are not beholden to a single […]
Best of 2019: Implementing Message Queue in Kubernetes
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fourth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. The adoption of Kubernetes as enterprises’ tool of choice is increasing very rapidly. Consequently, the architectural consideration and operational requirements to support production […]
Predictions 2020: Infrastructure and Ops Trends to Watch in 2020
Today, modernizing systems is more than simply moving technology to a new location. It requires an IT stack of a new generation of technologies and tools to work. As we head into the new year, let’s take a look at the top eight trends that will shape how we will develop and deliver software. Kubernetes […]
The Top Six Cloud Computing Trends of 2019
Cloud computing was one of the hottest topics in the technology and business media throughout 2019. This is no surprise as the cloud sector has been growing rapidly for the last few years. Synergy Research Group recently reported a 37% overall growth year-over-year in public cloud. They also note that it has taken just two […]
Predictions 2020: Ushering in 2020 Data Predictions
2019 brought us more data organizations running more advanced analytics, AI and ML workloads than ever before. 2020 is the year where we’ll see a spike in both the number of technologies and data teams that support these types of workloads internally. We’ll see AI and analytics teams merge into one as the new foundation […]
DevOps Chats: Canary Deploys Using Istio, with Autodesk
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Canary deploys give us a window into how new code deploys perform in production on a limited basis. The technology holds great promise in helping us learn the positive or negative effects of deploys without putting the more extensive set of microservices, application functions and beyond at risk. How do you […]
DevOps Chats: Debugging Spinnaker Apps, With Salesforce
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Debugging production issues in any environment can be challenging, and Spinnaker has its production learning curve. Problems aren’t always replicable in a smaller environment, and debug messages can be verbose and confusing to triage what’s happening. Our DevOps Chat guest Chuck Lane, Salesforce lead software engineer, is giving a talk on […]
DevOps Chats: Spinnaker Extensibility, With Armory
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Most open source software isn’t one size fits all, and Spinnaker is no different. While it captures the most general use cases of software delivery, most organizations find that it lacks some features they need to automate their entire delivery pipeline, such as integrations with internal tooling or compliance systems. Out […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course
There was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic written by Homer. A few short years after moving its corporate headquarters from Germany to Oakland, California, the company was sold to Novell, […]
Mario’s Adventures in Tekton Land
Tekton is an open source, cloud-native CI/CD pipelines engine. The project has its roots in the Knative project, where about a year ago it started under the name “Knative Pipeline,” with the aim of providing an extension to build Knative’s own “source to image” service. About eight months ago the project was reborn as Tekton […]
The NVMF Boogie: How Kubernetes and NVMF Will Rock
I recently wrote a blog about how Kubernetes creates a global computing grid that delivers unprecedented compute flexibility. Then I wrote a blog about the importance of going fully Kubernetes-native. In today’s blog I would like to drill down into the role that the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF or just NVMF) standard will play in […]
DevOps Chats: Continuous Delivery at Airbnb
Spinnaker Summit 2019 Preview: Airbnb is rapidly moving from a monolith Ruby on Rails application to a distributed SOA/Kubernetes architecture in Kubernetes. The new architecture uses self-service codified pipelines and easy webhook integrations, scale adoption and collaboration across the company. Even though continuous integration isn’t new to Airbnb, every team now needs to be able […]
Microsoft Extends Azure Reach to On-Premises IT Environs
Microsoft today at its Ignite 2019 conference previewed an Azure Arc management service that extends the reach of the Microsoft cloud to on-premises IT deployments. Azure Arc will be made available on both local Windows and Linux servers as well as Kubernetes clusters or an instance of Kubernetes that Microsoft is making available on Azure […]