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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. ...
Cybersecurity and Cloud-Native Application Connectivity
The Colonial Pipeline hack and the shutdown of the U.S.’s largest fuel pipeline was only one of many recent ransomware attacks on our nation’s hospitals, financial institutions and critical infrastructure. Can government ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...

