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Simply Scaling a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster with the TKG Service for vSphere

The previous two posts in this series walked through both the architecture of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Service for vSphere and how to use it to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. In this post, we’ll walk through how to take a cluster and scale it on demand. The examples shown are consistent with the same tag-demo-cluster-01 cluster spec used previously.

Streamline Your Teams' API Design and Strategy with User-Centered Documentation

Every day, application programming interfaces (APIs) are created to speed up the development of modern software applications—from globally-scaled public services to internal endpoints for your proprietary applications. For engineering leaders with teams that write and maintain APIs, however, it can be difficult to know how to prioritize API features, encourage adoption, and respond to feedback from developers. And as we at VMware Pivotal Labs well know, rapid iteration leads to product success.

Managing Kubernetes: From a Small Fleet to a Navy of Clusters

To keep pace with the ever-changing digital landscape, organizations are adopting open source and cloud native technologies at an incredible pace. But as the number of clusters and workloads grow, it can become increasingly difficult to know where clusters exist and how they are performing. And if multiple teams are provisioning and using clusters with different policies, roles, and configurations, you might as well jump ship. Because before you know it, you'll begin to experience cluster sprawl, and your multi-cluster operations will potentially capsize before you reach shore.

Comprehensive Kubernetes Observability at Scale

A guide to enterprise observability for Kubernetes environment, full-stack. Understand how to effectively alert, troubleshoot, and optimize across the Kubernetes environment of tens of thousands of pods, including the host, cluster, container, networking, and the applications on top. Read real-world case studies of how successful teams have implemented automated Tanzu Observability for increasing performance and reliability of applications, Kubernetes components, and underlying infrastructure.

File Integrity Monitoring: Detecting suspicious file activity inside a container

In this blog, we will explore suspicious file activity inside a container and see how to effectively implement a file integrity monitoring (FIM) workflow. We’ll also cover how Sysdig Secure can help you implement FIM for both containers and Linux hosts.

Implementing Canary Releases on Kubernetes with Spinnaker, Istio, and Prometheus

In a microservices world, applications consist of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of components. Manually deploying and verifying deployment quality in production is virtually impossible. Kubernetes, which natively supports rolling updates, enables blue-green application deployments with Spinnaker. However, the gradual rollout is a feature that doesn’t come out-of-the-box but can be achieved by adding Istio and Prometheus to the equation.