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How Oracle Is Meeting the Infrastructure Needs of AI
Generative AI is largely a data story, but it’s also an infrastructure and operations tale. GPUs are ascendant, being better suited to handle the computing needs of AI than CPUs. Customers of cloud...
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Return to PaaS: Building the Platform of Our Dreams
Think back to the beginning of the cloud era. The process of taking an application we had running on local host and deploying it to the cloud was a complex and arduous process. Developers would spend...
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Wasm Spin and SpinKube’s Rocky Road to CNCF Sandbox Status
It was first called Spin in 2022, inspired by Microsoft project Stargazer (now called wagi). That was also about three years before the news this week about the CNCF’s acceptance of Spin and SpinKube,...
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How Amazon EKS Auto Mode Simplifies Kubernetes Cluster Management (Part 1)
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon EKS Auto Mode at re:Invent 2024, and a new feature aims to simplify Kubernetes cluster management by automating key tasks, allowing users to focus on deploying and...
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A Deep Dive Into Amazon EKS Auto (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article exploring Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Mode. In Part 1, we covered the core concepts of EKS Auto Mode, an overview of Karpenter,...
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Mirantis Tackles Container Sprawl With Open Source k0rdent
We all use cloud native applications, but no one finds managing them easy. True, Kubernetes enables us to orchestrate them, but it’s still a lot of work. To address this, Mirantis, a leading provider...
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Canonical Extends Kubernetes Distro Support to a Dozen Years
Programmers love the best and newest releases. Businesses? Not so much. They want stability. So it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, has unveiled...
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Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro
For the first time in history, Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft have collaborated on an open source project that aims to simplify deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes. Kube Resource...
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Are the Days of Cloud-Based Testing Platforms Numbered?
Software teams typically fall into one of two categories: those that automate testing and those that do not. There are also those that don’t test at all and those that plan to automate — but next...
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Bypass Docker Hub Rate Limits With This Stateless Image Cache
On March 1, Docker will start enforcing its latest rate limits for pulling images from Docker Hub. While the professional (paid) accounts will still enjoy generous downloads, personal accounts will be...
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Kubescape Achieves CNCF Incubation Status
It took longer than I thought it would, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubescape, has finally graduated from being a sandbox to being an incubation project. Yea! This popular open...
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Orchestrate Cloud Native Workloads With Kro and Kubernetes
In the first part of this series, I introduced the background of Kube Resource Orchestrator (Kro). In this installment, we will define a Resource Graph Definition for WordPress and deploy multiple...
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Five Enterprise K8s Projects To Look For at KubeCon London
If you’re heading to KubeCon Europe in London this April, chances are you’re not paying to sample the food. You’re going for the sessions and specifically to get your fingers on the pulse of the...
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Build vs. Buy: Compare Your Kubernetes Platform Options
Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to orchestration tool for managing containerized applications. According to Portworx’s 2024 Voice of Kubernetes Experts report, 58% of organizations are planning to...
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Managing Kubernetes at Scale: Top 3 Lessons From the Trenches
Read Part 1: 3 Key Benefits of Platform Engineering Having understood the principles and benefits of platform engineering, let’s take a deeper dive into its implementation journey. From the early...
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Rethinking Kubernetes Multitenancy: A Smarter Approach for Platform Engineers
Platform teams strive to create “golden paths” for engineers and promote common standards across the organization with effective internal developer platforms (IDPs). However, this effort often...
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Automation Can Solve Resource Overprovisioning in Kubernetes
Teams running Kubernetes applications in the cloud often fall into the overprovisioning trap while trying to guarantee high performance and availability. As a result, they generate cloud waste that...
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How to Avoid Core Services Chaos in Kubernetes
While Kubernetes offers powerful container orchestration capabilities, as organizations expand from a handful of clusters to managing dozens or even hundreds, it becomes apparent that the platform...
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Transferring Trillions of Dollars Daily Using Kubernetes With No Internet
There are plenty of architectural diagrams out there describing cloud-based architectures deployed in traditional enterprises. But what if you operate financial market infrastructure that processes...
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Breaking the Chains of Kube-Proxy With Cilium
Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration, enabling teams of all sizes to deploy, scale and manage microservices-based applications. Despite its immense flexibility,...
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