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Why the cloud does not have to be a costly venture

Looking back on the last 18 months, it is abundantly clear that one piece of technology found its moment more than any other: cloud. Essential to modern computing, cloud provides the capacity for businesses to run workloads with the flexibility and scale many firms would struggle to achieve with on-premise infrastructure. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud Report, 90% of firms slightly or significantly increased their cloud usage due to the pandemic.

What's new in Calico v3.25

We’ve just released Calico v3.25! This milestone release includes a number of eBPF dataplane improvements designed to deliver an even faster upgrade experience, smaller memory footprint, and shorter eBPF networking object load time speed. But before we get into the details of these changes, let’s welcome and thank our new community problem-solvers who got their first contribution requests merged into our beloved project.

How to Preview and Diff Your Argo CD Deployments

Adopting Kubernetes has introduced several new complications on how to verify and validate all the manifests that describe your application. There are several tools out there for checking the syntax of manifests, scanning them for security issues, enforcing policies etc. But at the most basic case one of the major challenges is to actually understand what each change means for your application (and optionally approve/reject the pull request that contains that change).

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Kubernetes dashboard

Engineers need to understand the status of microservices run on EKS, like health status of clusters and nodes, to avoid issues impacting business critical microservices. Plus, you need to be able to keep an eye on EKS resources, including whether the Kubernetes cluster has auto-scaled (where enabled). Usually, to view these metrics, it requires looking at each EKS cluster and node group individually in the AWS Console, or via another complex third-party dashboarding tool. The data is siloed and difficult to consolidate.

Guide to Platform Engineering: Goals and Best Practices of Platform Engineering Team

Platform engineering is a specialized field that focuses on creating and maintaining the infrastructure and services that support the development and deployment of software applications. In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations need to be able to quickly and efficiently deliver new features and updates to their customers. Platform engineering teams play a crucial role in making this possible by providing a stable and reliable foundation for application development.

Kubernetes Preview Environments - Adoption, Use Cases & Implementations

No matter what application you’re building and who your target customers are, everyone can agree that it’s critical to avoid broken deployments. To aid in this goal, many tools and concepts have been invented, with Kubernetes preview environments being one of them. In this post, you’ll get a deeper understanding of how preview environments work, how organizations are using them, and how you can get started yourself.

How to Deploy a Cribl Stream Leader, Cribl Stream Worker, and Redis Containers via Docker

As mentioned in our documentation, Cribl Stream is built on a shared-nothing architecture. Each Worker Node and its processes operate separately and independently. This means that the state is not shared across processes or nodes.This means that if we have a large data set we need to access across all worker processes, we have to get creative. There are two main ways of doing this: In this blog, we’ll walk through how to deploy a Stream leader, Stream worker, and Redis containers via Docker.

Comparing Amazon ECS launch types: EC2 vs. Fargate

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that enables users to easily run, manage and scale containers on AWS. With ECS, you can deploy containers either on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances or on AWS Fargate, a serverless computing engine for containers. In this article, we’ll look at how these two launch types compare and explore how to start using them.

SUSE Receives 15 Badges in the Winter G2 Report Across its Product Portfolio

I’m pleased to share that G2, the world’s largest and most trusted tech marketplace, has recognized our solutions in its 2023 Winter Report. We received a total of 15 badges across our business units for Rancher, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SLE Desktop and SLE Real Time – including the Users Love Us badge for all products – as well as three badges for the openSUSE community with Leap and Tumbleweed.