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Containers vs. Bare Metal, VMs and Serverless
As I explained in my prior blog, Containers Practices Gap Assessment, containerizing software is valuable for DevOps. Yet, as I work with clients on their DevOps journeys, I continue to encounter organizations that ...
The Top 7 Kubernetes Alternatives for Container Orchestration
Container management is a heated subject when it comes to developing software. Containerization has revolutionized how we look at infrastructure, making it easier to execute software in production. But, you don’t need ...
Containers Vs. Virtual Machines: Why Containers are More Popular
Imagine a ship carrying cars wrapped with different layers of packaging materials. Now imagine that same ship, but the cars are not wrapped and are just stacked on top of each other ...
8 CNCF Projects for Cloud-Native Persistent Storage
Enacting persistent storage of data is somewhat counterintuitive when it comes to containerization. The ephemeral container is a short-lived computing environment where code isn’t stored forever. But you still need to store ...
GitOps Workflows and Principles for Kubernetes
For many organizations, the process of scaling up and operationalizing their clusters has led to an increase in complexity, particularly when using Kubernetes. With frequent application and environment updates come challenges in ...
6 CNCF Projects for CI/CD
Nowadays, software development teams need a more agile way of working to quickly bring code to life. And CI/CD has been a big enabler for more rapid development models for cloud-native software ...
Is Kubernetes Fit For Purpose?
Are Kubernetes clusters fit to run many of the applications being deployed on them? That question became the focal point of a panel discussion yesterday in Seattle, Washington, hosted by Tetrate, a ...
Modernizing? Containers are Not Enough; You Need Cloud Native
Many people reading this article already understand the value containers bring to their applications. Most have even implemented a container-based operations infrastructure for their applications. Containers provide a lightweight and platform-agnostic way ...
Transform Your DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE to Cloud Native
It is crucial to appreciate the transformative potential of cloud-native technology in shaping the future of business. Cloud-native represents a paradigm shift in designing, building and deploying applications, fully harnessing the benefits ...
Service Mesh Will Transform Network Management
As more cloud-native applications are deployed in production environments the need for application connectivity between highly distributed microservices is becoming more important. What is less clear is the profound impact the rise ...
