What’s Driving Fluent Bit Adoption?
Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Manning book, “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes.” Read also: Fluent Bit, a Specialized Event Capture and Distribution Tool Fluent Bit: Core...
View ArticleHow To Run Kubernetes Commands in Go: Steps and Best Practices
Key takeaways: You can run Kubernetes commands in Go using the client-go library or by executing raw kubectl commands with exec.Command. Use retry loops and backoff strategies to handle API timeouts,...
View ArticleKubeCon Is Starting To Sound a Lot Like VMCon
For much of the past decade, “cloud native” has been synonymous with the rise of containers, and, by extension, the slow erosion of virtual machines as the dominant abstraction for workloads. But at...
View ArticleKubernetes Surges in Enterprises, But What Can Take It Mainstream?
Kubernetes adoption has experienced explosive growth over the past decade. Ninety-three percent of respondents to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) 2024 Annual Survey reported that they...
View ArticleVMware VCF 9.0 Finally Unifies Container and VM Management
Usage and customer feedback during the coming months and weeks will determine whether VMware has managed to pull off a remarkable R&D feat: With the general availability release of Broadcom’s...
View ArticleWhat Are the Differences Between OTel, Fluent Bit and Fluentd?
This article is part of a series. Read also: Fluent Bit, a Specialized Event Capture and Distribution Tool Fluent Bit: Core Concepts What’s Driving Fluent Bit Adoption? A Guide To Migrating From...
View ArticleKubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy
When Kubernetes came onto the tech scene about a decade ago, it quickly became the shining example of the grassroots, bottom-up developer story. This open source project was a fast developer favorite...
View ArticleKubernetes Finally Solves Its Biggest Problem: Managing Databases
Running and managing stateful workloads such as databases on Kubernetes is notoriously difficult. The declarative model maps cleanly to manage things like Pods and Secrets, which can be replaced and...
View ArticleBare-Metal Kubernetes: The Performance Advantage Is Almost Gone
Bare metal for the last decade has offered a performance edge when running Kubernetes and container infrastructure compared to containers on VM abstraction layers. But that may not be the case for...
View ArticleHow To Deploy Fluent Bit in a Kubernetes-Native Way
Fluent Bit is a widely used open source data collection agent, processor and forwarder that enables you to collect logs, metrics and traces from various sources, filter and transform them, and then...
View ArticleWhat K8s Users Really Think About AI in 2025
I’ve spent four springs in a row staring at giant spreadsheets of research data and combing through hours of practitioner interviews as I prepare for our annual “State of Production Kubernetes”...
View ArticleKubernetes Will Solve YAML Headaches with KYAML
The data serialization language used to deploy and run Kubernetes has gotten an overhaul. The upcoming 1.34 release of Kubernetes may come with KYAML, a strict subset of YAML formatted specially for...
View ArticleComing Soon! Kubernetes at the Edge: Container Orchestration at Scale
The post Coming Soon! Kubernetes at the Edge: Container Orchestration at Scale appeared first on The New Stack. Edge computing promises incredible performance. But the reality is often unreliable...
View ArticleA Backend for Frontend: Watt for Node.js Simplifies Operations
Duesenberg was an American racing and luxury automobile manufacturer founded in 1920. It was unusual in that it shipped with the engine, chassis, frame, tires and wheels, but the buyer had to pay a...
View ArticleCNCF Seeks Requirements for K8s-Portable AI/ML Workloads
If you wanted to effortlessly move your AI inferencing and modeling workloads across the clouds, what would you need from Kubernetes? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) wants to know. CNCF...
View ArticleKubernetes at the Edge: Deploy With Confidence and Control
Seeking higher performance, lower latency and stronger privacy, enterprises are exploring the possibilities of edge computing. But critical challenges underlie these benefits, including limited...
View ArticleKubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform
Kubernetes is the cornerstone of cloud native architecture, but this container orchestrator is not the only thing that keeps enterprise stacks standing tall. From the start, any production-ready,...
View ArticleNew Tool Ends Java Configuration Nightmare in K8s
Perforce this week launched JRebel Enterprise, a new solution designed to eliminate one of Java development’s most persistent pain points: the time-consuming redeploy process that can grind...
View ArticleGPU Orchestration in Kubernetes: Device Plugin or GPU Operator?
The management of GPUs within Kubernetes clusters has become increasingly critical as AI, machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing workloads gain traction. Two approaches enabling GPU...
View ArticleVMware Cloud Foundation Is Now an AI-Native Platform
Broadcom is anticipating that most organizations will want to use AI in some fashion, and that the only economical way they can do so is through running a cloud in-house. This year, at the company’s...
View ArticleKubriX Thinks You’ll Soon Regret Building Your Own IDP
“We really think in a couple of years, IT companies will probably ask themselves, ‘Why did we build internal developer platforms on our own?’” So predicts Johannes Kleinlercher, senior consultant and...
View ArticleKubernetes Primer: Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) for GPU Workloads
In the previous article, I introduced Device Plugin and GPU Operator to expose the underlying accelerated infrastructure to Kubernetes workloads. In this article, I will introduce an emerging feature...
View ArticleHow Maintainer Burnout Is Causing a Kubernetes Security Disaster
Like far too many open source projects, we don’t give Kubernetes External Secrets Operator (ESO) enough attention. We just assume the program will be kept up-to-date and that it will always be there....
View Article18 Popular npm Packages Compromised in Attack
Aikido Security detected a series of packages being pushed to npm that appeared to contain malicious code, according to a post by Charlie Eriksen, a security researcher with the firm. These were 18...
View ArticleWhy the Edge Isn’t Just ‘Cloud Computing, But Closer’
Note: This is an excerpt from “Kubernetes at the Edge: Container Orchestration at Scale,” a new ebook from The New Stack. During my 30-odd years working in software, I’ve seen five major shifts in how...
View ArticleA Guide To Fluent Bit’s Health Check API Endpoints
Editor’s Note: This excerpt comes from the second chapter of the Manning Book: “Fluent Bit for Kubernetes.” This book teaches how to establish and optimize observability systems for Kubernetes, and...
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