Cloud-Native Platforms
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. ...
Kubermatic K8s Platform 2.17 Automates Multi-Cluster Backups
Kubermatic has added automated backups and replications and other features to its Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) 2.17 release, as the multi-cluster Kubernetes platform provider seeks to offer a more comprehensive platform to ...
Can Great DX Enable Full-Cycle Development?
Lately, there’s been a shift toward developers owning the entire software life cycle. This is enabled by DevOps tools that help implement things like GitOps, metrics, networking and security features, and much ...
Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier
Confluent has extended its reach by making it possible to deploy a curated instance of the open source Kafka distributed event streaming software on top of a Kubernetes environment running in an ...
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 ...
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 ...
When (And When Not) to Use eBPF
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is a relatively new feature for Linux kernels that has many DevOps professionals, SREs and engineers excited. But is it a one-stop shop for all of your ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
