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August 2022

Introduction to Cloud Native Application Architecture

Today, it is crucial that an organization’s application’s scalability matches its growth tempo. If you want your client’s app to be robust and easy to scale, you have to make the right architectural decisions. Cloud native applications are proven more efficient than their traditional counterparts and much easier to scale due to containerization and running in the cloud.

How to Explain Zero Trust to Your Tech Leadership: Gartner Report

Does it seem like everyone’s talking about Zero Trust? Maybe you know everything there is to know about Zero Trust, especially Zero Trust for container security. But if your Zero Trust initiatives are being met with brick walls or blank stares, maybe you need some help from Gartner®. And they’ve got just the thing to help you explain the value of Zero Trust to your leadership; It’s called Quick Answer: How to Explain Zero Trust to Technology Executives.

Behind the Scenes with the Kubernetes 1.25 Release

Join us live on August 23 as SUSE's Robert Sirchia hosts Rey Lejano, Emeritus Adviser of the Kubernetes 1.25 release team, during the Kubernetes 1.25 release. Rey will guide you through the Kubernetes Release Process and Release Cycle showcase the highlights of this release. This is your chance to ask questions directly to the people involved and look behind the scenes of the release process.

Zero Trust: The New Security Model for Cloud Native Applications and Infrastructure

Zero Trust security is gaining attention and momentum as a security approach or mindset that can improve the security posture of enterprises as they continue to battle hackers. Because of this widespread attention on Zero Trust, every software security vendor seems to be jumping on the Zero Trust bandwagon. However, Zero Trust is not a product or service. No single product or vendor can sell you Zero Trust security.

Epinio and Crossplane: the Perfect Kubernetes Fit

One of the greatest challenges that operators and developers face is infrastructure provisioning: it should be resilient, reliable, reproducible and even audited. This is where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) comes in. In the last few years, we have seen many tools that tried to solve this problem, sometimes offered by the cloud providers (AWS CloudFormation) or vendor-agnostic solutions like Terraform and Pulumi.

Comparing Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions: Harvester and OpenStack

The effectiveness of good resource management in a secure and agile way is a challenge today. There are several solutions like Openstack and Harvester, which handles your hardware infrastructure as on-premise cloud infrastructure. This allows the management of storage, compute, and networking resources to be more flexible than deploying applications on single hardware only. Both OpenStack and Harvester have their own use cases.

Cloud Modernization Best Practices

Cloud services have revolutionized the technical industry, and services and tools of all kinds have been created to help organizations migrate to the cloud and become more scalable in the process. This migration is often referred to as cloud modernization. To successfully implement cloud modernization, you must adapt your existing processes for future feature releases.

Kubernetes Master Class: GitOps, Rancher and ArgoCD with Codefresh

Join Robert Sirchia and Dan Garfield for this session. Configuration drift is a common problem software developers face. Picture this: two environments are supposed to be similar but are not. Nobody knows exactly what is deployed in that environment/server/cluster, so people are afraid to touch it. It’s declared “off-limits” because nobody can reconstruct it if it breaks down. People do hot-fixes or ad-hoc changes without recording them, and then those developers change teams or companies.

Persistent, Distributed Kubernetes Storage with Longhorn

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system that enables applications to run on a cluster of hosts. It’s a critical part of cloud native architecture because it can work on public or private clouds and on-premises environments. With an orchestration layer on top of traditional infrastructure, Kubernetes allows the automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.