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Microservices Are 'Easy', Dependencies Are Hard - Itiel Shwartz (at Yalla DevOps 2021)

Yalla! DevOps 2021 -- The first, in-person DevOps conference of the year! Driven by the DevOps community. All about the DevOps community. Microservices Are ‘Easy’, Dependencies Are Hard: The Right Way to Build a Cloud-Native CI/CD Microservices are more agile, easier to test, and simpler to maintain. If you don’t know, now you know. Thanks to k8s, it’s so easy! In fact, it is so easy, we’re gradually scaling down to smaller and smaller services. Sounds like there’s no downside at all. Or is there? In this talk, Itiel describes the many pitfalls of microservices, and how to avoid them.

High-availability connectivity for Kubernetes with dual ToR

Dual ToR (top of rack) peering provides a redundant path for customers with cluster applications that cannot tolerate service downtime or failure and require a high-availability solution. While Calico ToR connectivity has existed for some time, Calico Enterprise now supports connectivity with dual ToR switches.

How to Instrument a Java App Running in Amazon EKS

As we start to see big moves from monolith deployments to microservices, the adoption of Kubernetes has become top of mind for many SREs. Organizations can leverage the open-source system to automate deployments, scale, and manage containers, making Kubernetes one of the primary solutions for delivering workloads. However, maintaining the system can be difficult and, in some cases, overwhelming.

How to test the latest Kubernetes 1.22 release candidate with MicroK8s

Today, the Kubernetes community made the 1.22 release candidate available, a few weeks ahead of general availability, planned for August the 4th. We invite developers, platform engineers and cloud tech enthusiasts to experiment with the new features, report back findings and bugs. MicroK8s is the easiest way to get up and running with the latest version of K8s for testing and experimentation.