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5 Common Container Mistakes to Avoid

With the increase in containers comes an increase in container mistakes. Here are some worth highlighting Containers are all the rage as organizations strive for faster software development and more efficient infrastructure ...

Tytus Kurek | December 24, 2019 | container misconfiguration, container mistakes, containerization, containers, integration, kubernetes, microservices

Running Kubernetes at Scale Top 2020 Challenge

As IT organizations that have adopted Kubernetes head into 2020, their next big challenge will be deploying Kubernetes clusters at scale. A survey of 1,300 attendees of the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon 2019 ...

Mike Vizard | December 24, 2019 | container management, containers, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019, kubernetes, Platform9, survey

Maintaining Data Consistency Across Microservices

When microservice applications are built as a set of modular components, they are easier to understand, simpler to test and effortless to maintain over the life of the application. They enable organizations ...

Karthikeyan Shanmugam | December 17, 2019 | compensating transactions, distributed transactions, GRIT, microservices

D2iQ Rises to Kubernetes Management Challenge

D2iQ has made available Kommander, a management platform through which IT teams can manage and govern federated instances of Kubernetes clusters. In addition, D2iQ plans to deliver Dispatch, a continuous integration/continuous deployment ...

Mike Vizard | December 5, 2019 | D2iQ, Kommander, kubernetes, Kubernetes clusters, Kubernetes management, mesosphere, platform

Diamanti Previews Control Plane for Hybrid Kubernetes Environments

Diamanti has made available a technology preview of a control plane for hybrid deployments of Kubernetes clusters spanning public and private clouds. Company CEO Tom Barton says Diamanti Spektra will extend the ...

Mike Vizard | December 4, 2019 | control plane, Diamanti Spektra, Diamanti. Kubernetes, Kubernetes clusters

AWS Marries Fargate to Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today at its re:Invent 2019 conference announced it is making available an instance of its Fargate managed serverless computing service for containers on top of the distribution of ...

Mike Vizard | December 3, 2019 | aws, AWS re:Invent 2019, containers, Fargate, kubernetes, managed service, serverless computing

Wavefront by VMware Simplifies Kubernetes Monitoring

Wavefront by VMware announced at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference it has expanded the monitoring capabilities it provides for Kubernetes to include the ability to identify root causes using predefined Wavefront alerts ...

Mike Vizard | December 2, 2019 | Java Tracing Agent, kubernetes, Kubernetes management, monitoring, open source, vmware, Wavefront by VMware

Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes Moves Forward

The official release of version 3.0 of the Helm package manager for Kubernetes is designed to make it easier for IT organizations to discover and securely deploy software on Kubernetes clusters more ...

Mike Vizard | December 2, 2019 | API, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, cncf, graphical user interface, Helm, Helm Charts, kubernetes, package manager

Rancher Labs Looks to Accelerate Kubernetes Adoption

Rancher Labs this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference announced that Rio, a continuous delivery (CD) platform for Kubernetes clusters, is available in beta. In addition, Rancher Labs disclosed that ...

Mike Vizard | November 21, 2019 | continuous delivery, kubernetes, Kubernetes clusters, rancher labs, Rio

IBM Expands Open Source Tools Portfolio for Kubernetes

IBM this week at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 conference announced it has made two more open source tools available for Kubernetes clusters and the Istio service mesh along with making two ...