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Five Reasons to Use Base Container Images

Nowadays, the software development paradigm is based on containerizing applications to deploy on pods to let Kubernetes manage it. Containerized applications can then allow Kubernetes to manage its deployment, replication, high availability, metrics and other capabilities so that the application can focus on doing what it was designed to do. This technology is used for projects and by customers all over the globe.

Building a Fleet of GKE Clusters with Argo CD with Nick Ebert, Google

Organizations on a journey to containerize applications and run them on Kubernetes often reach a point where running a single cluster doesn't meet their needs. ArgoCD and Fleets offer a great way to ease the management of multi-cluster environments by allowing you to define your clusters state based on labels abstracting away the focus from unique clusters to profiles of clusters that are easily replaced. In this talk Nicholas will show you one way to build a platform that removes the uniqueness of a GKE cluster with Fleets and Argo CD.

Container Observability

In the recent past, container-based deployment architectures have played a significant role in improving applications on multiple fronts, including: Containers are all-inclusive packages containing lightweight services which are easy to spawn and terminate. However, container-based deployments can comprise hundreds of individual services and their replicas spinning up and down at any moment.

Cost Advisor: Optimize and Rightsize your Kubernetes Costs

Kubernetes has broken down barriers as the cornerstone of cloud-native application infrastructure in recent years. In addition, cloud vendors offer flexibility, speedy operations, high availability, SLAs (service-level agreement) that guarantee your service availability, and a large catalog of embedded services. But as organizations mature in their Kubernetes journey, monitoring and optimizing costs is the next stage in their cloud-native transformation.

Sysdig Cost Advisor: Optimize your Kubernetes Costs

Every company running its applications on the cloud needs to estimate its operating costs, but running workloads on Kubernetes clusters across multiple providers often makes it hard. Without Kubernetes context in the cloud billing reports, users aren’t able to group costs or effectively assign the resources to the proper cost center. To address these gaps in Kubernetes cost monitoring, we are excited to announce Cost Advisor, a new feature in Sysdig Monitor that will give you visibility into Kubernetes costs and automatically help you identify areas to reduce them.

The Ultimate Guide to Containers and Why You Need Them

Containers have long been used in the transportation industry. Cranes pick up containers and shift them onto trucks and ships for transportation. Container technology is handled in a similar vein in the software world. A container is a new and efficient way of deploying applications. A container is a lightweight unit of software that includes application code and all its dependencies such as binary code, libraries, and configuration files for easy deployment across different computing environments.

0 to Observable: From Kubernetes Logs to Container Observability with Coralogix

In this video, we begin with a local Kubernetes cluster. From there, we will add a collector agent, the Open Telemetry Collector and configure it to push logs to Coralogix. However, we won't stop there. We'll then use the Logs2Metrics feature to transform those logs into some key container metrics, and visualise them using a DataMap. From 0 to observable in 15 minutes.

Stop Trusting Container Registries, Verify Image Signatures

One of InfluxData’s main products is InfluxDB Cloud. It’s a cloud-native, SaaS platform for accessing InfluxDB in a serverless, scalable fashion. InfluxDB Cloud is available in all major public clouds. InfluxDB Cloud was built from the ground up to support auto-scaling and handling different types of workloads. Under the hood, InfluxDB Cloud is a Kubernetes-based application consisting of a fleet of micro-services that runs in a multi-cloud, multi-region setup.