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Shipa Volumes - Container Storage Demystified

If you are a software engineer like myself, two areas that I am not well versed in are networking and storage. Yes, my application has to communicate and yes my application needs to be deployed and requires some storage. Though that is usually the extent of my knowledge. Thanks to using elastic compute from cloud vendors in the last several years, the answer I usually give is “yes, attach 100gb of standard block storage per instance”.

Understanding bare metal Kubernetes

Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome aspects related to virtualisation management and networking. For operators and users, it provides significant benefits, making it easier and faster to ship and maintain complex, distributed applications.

Global Online Meetup - January 2022 - SUSE's Cloud Native Security Roadmap 2022

In the January Global Online Meetup we look at our Cloud Native Security Roadmap for 2022. We're covering: Hosted by Tim Irnich, Director Technical Evangelism, SUSE & Rancher Community, with panelists: Our Global Online Meetups provide an inside view into the latest and greatest of SUSE technology. Our colleagues from Engineering & Innovation present their newest ideas and projects and are eager to hear feedback from our community.

Rancher Desktop 1.0.0 Has Arrived

We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 release of Rancher Desktop. This release has been months in the making since development on Rancher Desktop began. After starting small and learning what users needed, we were able to adjust its path and develop the features needed for a 1.0.0 stable community release. But wait – what is Rancher Desktop again? It’s an open source app for desktop Kubernetes and container management on Mac, Windows and Linux.

The Business Case for Docker Adoption

Container technology is considered one of the most rapidly evolving in the software industry's recent history. There has been a seismic shift towards more and more organizations adopting containerization for their applications. Containers offer a lightweight, portable, and more efficient alternative to virtual machines and help us run software securely and reliably across different server environments.

My First Impressions with SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Projects

I recently started working at SUSE. Before joining SUSE, my Kubernetes experience included vanilla Kubernetes, AKS and EKS but mostly OpenShift and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management. I worked in technical pre-sales, so I knew about Rancher, K3s and RKE and their key features but I never spent time with them. When I joined SUSE, I started testing Rancher, Rancher Desktop, K3s, k3d and RKE2 and I had a great time with them. First things first, I will

Shipa Common Abstraction Layer - AaC - Application as Code

In this Shipa Shorts video, learn about having a common layer for your applications e.g Application as Code . The only constant in technology is change. As your CI/CD and IaC stacks change, Shipa's abstraction stays the same for your development team. In this example, goes through Argo CD, Terraform, and GitHub Actions all producing the same result.