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Docker Container Lifecycle Tutorial | Create, Run, Pause, Stop, Kill

In this tutorial, we will learn about Docker container lifecycle. But first, let me share a personal anecdote. On a hot summer afternoon in 2021, my manager called me out of the blue and said, “Muskan, the project file you shared with me is not working on my machine. Could you please come over and fix the setup? It’s really urgent.” I rushed to his cabin and tried my best but could not fix the dependencies issues.

From Struggle to Success: How We Solve Common DevOps Challenges

In a previous article, we walked you through key steps to become a proficient DevOps: However, even experienced DevOps are still struggling in their day-to-day work for several reasons. One of the most common challenges is the fast-paced nature of the DevOps field, which requires professionals to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies constantly. This can be difficult for even the most experienced individuals, as it requires them to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.

Introduction to Kubernetes Imperative Commands

Kubernetes was born out of the need to make our complex applications highly available, scalable, portable and deployable in small microservices independently. It also extends its capabilities to make adoption of DevOps processes and helps you set up modern Incident Response strategies to enhance the reliability of your applications.

What You Need To Know About Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Kubernetes. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026 more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, an increase from fewer than 40% in 2020. And IDC reports that 80% of new workloads are being developed in containers.

How to Monitor kube-controller-manager

When it comes to creating new Pods from a ReplicationController or ReplicaSet, ServiceAccounts for namespaces, or even new EndPoints for a Service, kube-controller-manager is the one responsible for carrying out these tasks. Monitoring the Kubernetes controller manager is fundamental to ensure the proper operation of your Kubernetes cluster. If you are in your cloud-native journey, running your workloads on top of Kubernetes, don’t miss the kube-controller-manager observability.

What's new in Calico Enterprise 3.15: FIPS 140-2 compliance, new dashboards, egress gateway pod failover, and more!

Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud-Native Application Security Platform (CNAPP) for containers and Kubernetes. Available as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise), the platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates exposure risks of security issues in build, deploy, and runtime stages across multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments.

Provoking thinking: Why we launched Civo Navigate

At Civo, we have always sought to expand people’s understanding of technology. From setting up an academy to help people get to grips with Kubernetes to running developer events around the world, we firmly believe that the benefits of technology should be accessible to everyone. There is a growing global community in the tech sector that is focused on a new way of doing things. This community is united by a conviction that these changes must be done for the benefit of all.

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The Role of Kubernetes in Production Traffic Replication

Organizations are starting to realize that simply writing tests to generate traffic is simply not good enough. Rather, production traffic replication is now necessary, where you record traffic from your production environment and then replay it in your development environment. To match the modern principles of this testing methodology, it makes sense to also utilize modern infrastructure, like Kubernetes. Some benefits of using Kubernetes for production traffic replication are the ability to: Additionally, load generators are ephemeral. These reasons-and a few more besides-will be covered later in this post, but let's first take a deeper look at what production traffic replication is.

5 Predictions for Kubernetes in 2023

It should surprise no one that Kubernetes uptake is growing and will continue to do so. The wildly popular container orchestration platform’s continuous development is fueled by broad adoption. This will continue in 2023 as more companies, teams and individuals embrace it as a platform for innovation, building new applications and scaling existing ones faster than ever before.