Cloud-Native Platforms
Overprovisioning of Containerized Applications Adds to Cloud Costs
Organizations are struggling with cloud cost management for Kubernetes, with the inability to scale back once application demand drops as one of the major drivers of wasted cloud spending. This was one ...
The Brutal Learning Curve of a New Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes has truly democratized container orchestration. It has become an unrivaled platform, allowing organizations to rapidly deploy and scale their solutions with a simple, declarative API. It is also highly extensible, meaning ...
Introduction To Flux
GitOps has become a chosen strategy for releasing and deploying cloud-native microservices. The goal of GitOps, a term coined by Alexis Richardson, CEO of Weaveworks, in 2017, is to “make operations automatic ...
Kubernetes 1.26 Update Closes Out 2022 Development Efforts
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) for Kubernetes today made available a 1.26 update that adds 37 enhancements, 16 of which represent new capabilities. Eleven other capabilities are graduating to stable while 10 ...
GitOps Workflows Expanding Beyond Kubernetes Clusters
Now that the open source Flux version control software has officially graduated to become a mature project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the pace at which organizations embrace GitOps best ...
AWS Leverages Containers to Automate ML Model Deployments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leveraging containers to make it simpler to deploy machine learning models constructed using the Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebook tool in production environments. Rather than setting up, configuring ...
TriggerMesh Shaker Project Fosters Event-Driven Interoperability
TriggerMesh is launching an open source Shaker project that captures, transforms and delivers events without needing developers to write a single line of code. Deployable on any platform as a Docker container, ...
Rafay Systems Adds Kubernetes Cost Management
At the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Rafay Systems this week announced it is adding a Cost Management Service to its platform for managing Kubernetes clusters. Praveen Kashimsetty, director of product management for ...
AWS Tightens EKS and AWS Marketplace Integration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made available an extension of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) service that makes it simpler to add software downloaded from the AWS Marketplace for Containers ...
Survey Shows Significant Spike in Kubernetes Use
A survey of 500 full-time IT department employees finds more than three-quarters of respondents (79%) work for organizations that have increased their use of Kubernetes clusters over the last two years, with ...

