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Rancher Wrap: Another Year of Innovation and Growth

2022 was another year of innovation and growth for SUSE’s Enterprise Container Management business. We introduced significant upgrades to our Rancher and NeuVector products, launched new open source projects and matured others. Exiting 2022, Rancher remains the industry’s most widely adopted container management platform and SUSE remains the preferred vendor for enabling enterprise cloud native transformation. Here’s a quick look at a few key themes from 2022.

Container Monitoring Demo

Datadog Container Monitoring gives you real-time, end-to-end visibility into your containerized environments. In this demo, we show you how Container Monitoring helps you correlate container metrics with logs, traces, and network data to quickly detect and investigate anomalies across every layer of your Kubernetes clusters. We also walk you through setting up AI-enhanced monitors to receive automatic alerts for future issues.

Kubernetes Services: ClusterIP, Nodeport and LoadBalancer

Pods are ephemeral. And they are meant to be. They can be seamlessly destroyed and replaced if using a Deployment. Or they can be scaled at some point when using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA). This means we can’t rely on the Pod IP address to connect with applications running in our containers internally or externally, as the Pod might not be there in the future.

How to Monitor Kubernetes K3s Using Telegraf and InfluxDB Cloud

This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. A Helm chart can simplify our lives and enable us to see what is happening with our K3s cluster using an external system. Lightweight Kubernetes, known as K3s, is an installation of Kubernetes half the size in terms of memory footprint. Do you need to monitor your nodes running K3s to know the status of your cluster?

Scaling Your CI/CD: What You Need To Know

CI/CD is the process that ensures that code updates are deployed efficiently and reliably. However, more than simply having CI/CD pipelines is required for modern business application development needs. The problems start as soon as your team grows, but your CI/CD process does not. Static CI/CD pipelines result in an operational bottleneck and slow down your application workflow. Today, we will discuss why scaling your CI/CD is an inevitable need for your organization.