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March 2023

Air-Gapped Kubernetes with D2iQ (AFCEA West 2023)

From secure air-gapped environments to ease of use John Sickle, President and General Manager of D2iQ Federal, shares some of the reasons why the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform works for our partners at the Department of Defense and in the military. We provide the support, training and military-grade security required to help our government partners quickly and easily get into production and complete the mission at hand.

Measure Your Container-Management Maturity and Up Your Cloud-Native Game

D2iQ has made available a new assessment tool that enables you to gauge your container management maturity level. By taking a 1-minute quiz, you can identify where you fit within the five levels of cloud-native container-management maturity–Explorer, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master. The maturity model is based on the wisdom of D2iQ Kubernetes experts with more than a decade of experience building and deploying Kubernetes platforms for customers.

If The Beatles Were Your Retail IT Consultants, You'd Be Ringing Up the Hits

In a relatively short period of time, from 1962 to 1969, The Beatles produced a volume of work that made them the most successful recording artists of all time as measured by their volume of record sales, number-one hits, and duration of hits on the charts.

Data Pipelines on DKP: Building a a big data pipeline with NiFi, Kafka, and Elastic

This introductory video hits the highlights on leveraging Kubernetes operators to build an open source, scalable, modern data stack on the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). DKP allows you to build an end-to-end data ingestion pipeline using Apache NiFi, Kafka and other tools from within the DKP user interface and bootstrap your big data project in hours, not months!

Elevate Kubernetes Security with Zero Trust

The theme of this year’s Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium was " Post-Pandemic Zero Trust." In General Dynamics Information Technology’s 2022 report, “ Agency Guide to Zero Trust Maturity,” 63% of respondents from federal civilian and defense agencies said they believed their agencies would achieve specific zero trust security goals by the end of fiscal 2024.

Managing Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE/2) with the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP)

This video describes how to use the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) to manage an existing CNCF-conformant cluster created with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE or RKE2). Getting to Kubernetes is a first step. Getting Kubernetes into production is quite another! You've got a few clusters in place already, and they may even be in production, but what you need now is some way to manage them all from the same place. DKP can help! You can use DKP to manage existing clusters as well as new clusters you create with DKP itself.

Managing Open-Source K3s with the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP)

This video describes how to use D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) to manage an existing CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster created with K3s, a small footprint version of Kubernetes (sometimes abbreviated "K8s"). Getting to Kubernetes is a first step. Getting Kubernetes into production is quite another! You've got a few clusters in place already, and they may even be in production, but what you need now is some way to manage them all from the same place. DKP can help!