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Upgrading Kubernetes Without Upgrading Rancher

Prior to version 2.3, new versions of Kubernetes came out with point releases of Rancher and required an upgrade to Rancher before they were made available for use. Rancher 2.3 changes that pattern and now makes it possible to update the metadata store for available Kubernetes versions, disconnecting the Rancher server upgrade process from the Kubernetes cluster upgrade process.

Tim Pouyer - Promoting Kubernetes CI/CD to the Next Level

Many companies and organizations have adopted CI/CD processes in order to help deliver applications running on Kubernetes quickly, transparently, and with automated tests. While this is a desirable goal, it gets more complex when developing a management layer on top of k8s, especially when both images and Helm charts are involved.

From Zero to DevOps Superhero: The Container Edition - Jessica Deen, Microsoft

Microservices can be hard; understanding container best practices can be hard as those practices are still being discovered. This session aids in minimizing the learning curve with container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes, by bringing DevOps best practices into the mix. This is not another HelloWorld session with quick tips. Instead, you can expect a deep dive into how you can truly go from zero to DevOps superhero by simply selecting container tooling specifically built for simplifying the process.

Tigera Joins the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Program and Partners with Fortinet to Secure Kubernetes Environments

We are proud to partner with Fortinet and join their Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner program. With this partnership, Fortinet customers will be able to extend their network security architecture to their Kubernetes environments. Our partnership was driven from interest from Fortinet’s customers to protect their Kubernetes based infrastructure. Kubernetes adoption is growing like wildfire and nearly every enterprise on the planet is at some stage of their Kubernetes journey.

Kubernetes Adoption Hastens in EMEA

Containers - and Kubernetes - are now a key part of enterprise growth strategy across EMEA. We can see this not only as usage of Rancher grows, but also as the popularity of our local Lighthouse Events increases. In Northern EMEA particularly, the appetite for Kubernetes is accelerating rapidly. How are companies in this region capitalising on Kubernetes?

How To Deploy WordPress as a Headless CMS on Cycle

With the release of the WordPress REST API (version 4.7 circa 2016), WordPress developers started deploying the application as a headless CMS. As the WordPress community started to embrace this architecture, more and more developers are starting to use it in production. Now thanks to the growing number of plugins, WordPress as a headless CMS is starting to become the go-to deployment strategy.

Monitoring Amazon RDS with Blue Matador

Amazon RDS allows you to easily run databases in AWS without actually having to manage database servers. Since your databases are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring RDS is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors RDS automatically and without configuration.

Kubernetes Master Class Windows Container Networking in Rancher 2 3

In this session of the Kubernetes Master Class Series, we will cover the networking internals of Windows Server worker nodes and Windows Server Containers. The focus will be on the supported networking configurations with Flannel and Rancher 2.3. We will also cover differences between Linux and Windows networking and how to get started with troubleshooting issues that may arise.