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Kubernetes step 3 Big Steps in Container Adoption

Seven Step Transformation Blueprint for Containers

This blog explains how to apply my Seven-Step Transformation Blueprint to containers. Digital transformations are hard. Many organizations falter while trying to transform their people, practices and technologies to meet strategic objectives. ...

Marc Hornbeek | May 25, 2021 | application containers, containers, digital transformation

AWS Delivers Managed DevOps Environment for Container Apps

Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made a managed AWS App Runner service for building container applications generally available. Scott Sanchez, head of product marketing for containers and serverless for AWS, says, ...

Mike Vizard | May 20, 2021 | app dev, automation, aws, containers

Kubernetes Maturity Phase 3: Deployment

In our previous articles, we introduced the Kubernetes Maturity Model, discussed how to prepare for Kubernetes and explored the transformation phase. Now you’re ready to think about deploying Kubernetes; phase three of ...

Kendall Miller | May 19, 2021 | container deployment, Fairwinds, kubernetes, Kubernetes maturity

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Enterprise Container Platforms Optimize Operations

As I indicated in my prior blog, A New Approach to K8s and Containers, a new kind of enterprise Kubernetes-based container platform is needed to accelerate time-to-value and realize efficient, safe operation ...

Marc Hornbeek | May 18, 2021 | containers, enterprise, kubernetes, kubernetes in the enterprise, platform

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Why a Cloud-Native Database Must Run on K8s

We’ve been talking about migrating workloads to the cloud for a long time, but a look at the application portfolios of many IT organizations demonstrates that there’s still a lot of work ...

Jeff Carpenter | May 14, 2021 | Apache Cassandra, cloud-native architecture, database, K8ssandra

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Pain Points Persist as Reliance on Kubernetes Rises

A survey of more than 1,097 IT professionals published this week finds 42% are running at least half of their business-critical applications on the Kubernetes platform, with roughly a quarter of respondents ...

Mike Vizard | May 13, 2021 | container management, containers, kubernetes, Traefik Labs

Pure Storage Expands Portworx’s K8s Storage Reach

At its online Pure//Accelerate Digital event, Pure Storage today announced it has extended Portworx Enterprise to support clusters running the VMware Tanzu distributions of Kubernetes in addition to adding support for dynamic ...

Mike Vizard | May 13, 2021 | Pure Storage, storage, Tanzu, vmware

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Continuous Evolution: The CI/CD Story

Often, developers’ tools are as important as the software they’re building. Billions of dollars, millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers are involved in the development of the toolchain that ...

Ram Iyengar | May 13, 2021 | CI/CD, container orchestration, kubernetes, software development

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Aqua Security Report Reveals Docker API Security Mess

Aqua Security published a report today that shows widespread cloud misconfiguration issues also extend to Docker containers. The report finds more than 40% of users had at least one misconfigured Docker application ...

Mike Vizard | May 12, 2021 | Aqua Security, container misconfiguration, container security, docker

Are You Tracing Kubernetes Effectively?

Distributed tracing, like logging and observability, is a key functionality for keeping your services healthy and predictable. Contrary to logs and observability, which shows what happens on a service, tracing allows developers ...