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Robin.io Allies with Google on Data Management for Kubernetes

At the Google Cloud Next 2019 conference, Robin.io announced it is working with Google to embed a standard set of application programming interface (APIs) for data management within Kubernetes-based services from Google ...
EKS Kubernetes and the Challenge of Federation

Kubernetes and the Challenge of Federation

Wouldn’t it be handy if you could manage multiple Kubernetes clusters using a single tool and interface? Kubernetes would like to let you do this using a feature called federation. The trouble ...
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CNCF Formally Adopts CRI-O Runtime for Kubernetes

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today that a container runtime designed specifically for Kubernetes has been formally accepted as an incubation project. The Container Runtime Interface – Orchestrator (CRI-O) is ...
EBS and EFS in Kubernetes

Using EBS and EFS as Persistent Volume in Kubernetes

If your Kubernetes cluster is running in the cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), it comes with Elastic Block Storage (EBS). Or, Elastic File System (EFS) can be used for storage. We ...
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Explaining Kubernetes’ Popularity: It’s the Community, Not the Technology

Everyone everywhere is excited about Kubernetes. The big question is, Why are people are talking so much more about Kubernetes than other container orchestrators? Is Kubernetes functionally superior to other container orchestrators? ...
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SUSE Melds Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry Further

At the SUSECON 2019 conference this week, SUSE announced that it has advanced its effort to unify the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment with Kubernetes by adding support for Project Eirini in ...
The Differences Between Linux and Windows Containers

The Differences Between Linux and Windows Containers

Docker’s popularity has been driven in large part by its promise of letting admins build an application once and then deploy it anywhere. But this promise can be misleading when you are ...
Hadoop MapR Embraces Kubernetes for Big Data

MapR Embraces Kubernetes for Big Data

MapR Technologies announced it has integrated its distribution of the open source Apache Spark framework and the Drill query engine platform with Kubernetes. Suzy Visvanathan, senior director for product management at MapR, ...
Preparing for a Move to Microservices

Preparing for a Move to Microservices

If your company is like most, homespun software applications permeate the organization. And chances are, the majority of these applications are running on outdated architecture. But don’t dismay: Re-architecting those applications on ...
SRE High-Level History of the Container Ecosystem

A High-Level History of the Container Ecosystem, 2013-2019

Docker recently turned 6 years old. That makes this a fitting time to step back and think about how the conversation surrounding Docker has evolved over those years. My goal in this ...