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The latest News and Information on Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and related technologies.

Deploying applications to Kubernetes from your CI pipeline with Shipa

Kubernetes can bring a wide collection of advantages to a development organization. Properly using Kubernetes can significantly improve productivity, empower you to better utilize your cloud spend, and improve application stability and reliability. On the flip side, if you are not properly leverag Kubernetes, your would-be benefits become drawbacks. As a developer, this can become incredibly frustrating when your focus is on delivering quality code fast.

What's New with JFrog Artifactory and Xray

Get the latest on self-hosted Docker rate limits, cutting through violation noise and new package type support. Without doubt, 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for everyone in recent history, but especially for those in the world of DevOps. JFrog has strived to continue developing and innovating at the same pace, to give our customers an even better end-to-end DevOps experience, and help customers maintain their drum-beat of on-time releases.

Multi-cloud Kubernetes management with Portainer

If you feel intimidated by Kubernetes’ complexity but still need to modernize your business applications with containers, rest assured you’re not the only one. The container orchestration platform solves many problems but also creates new ones, so read on to find out about a new approach that can help you get just the benefits.

Improving Workload Alerts with the VMware Reliability Scanner

With the recent release of the VMware Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team’s Reliability Scanner, we wanted to take some time to expand on the namespace label check, including how labelling can be used for alert routing. The Reliability Scanner is a Sonobuoy plugin that allows an end user to include and configure a suggestive set of checks to be executed against a cluster.

Load Balancers, Private Registries, and More: What's New in vSphere with Tanzu U2

vSphere with Tanzu brings together an integrated Kubernetes experience for VI admins and developers. Using vSphere as the infrastructure platform, managing the Kubernetes lifecycle becomes easier than ever. New features in vSphere with Tanzu U2 add more capabilities that make Kubernetes operations even more seamless. Let’s check it out. VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) provides a highly available and scalable load balancer and container ingress services.

Azure Kubernetes Service in action

We are deploying 2 services on AKS, one will send messages to SB Queue (on VMSS) and the second (on Container Instance) will handle the messages. We will see how the pods (that we have deployed on Azure Container Instance) will scale out automatically with the increase of the messages in line. All communication direction is done via Application Gateway Ingress Controller.