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

The Importance of Pure Open-Source Kubernetes

In a short time, the open-source ecosystem has evolved from niche projects with limited corporate backing to the de facto way to build software. Today, organizations large and small are adopting open-source software to accelerate product development and innovation. In the government sector, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a memorandum on adopting open source software as its preference versus proprietary software, calling open-source “critical in delivering software faster.”

Disrupting the Status Quo with Digital Wallets

There’s no shortage of innovation in the financial services industry. Financial institutions have always placed a high value on innovation, as demonstrated by their willingness to fund technology-led initiatives. According to Gartner® Research Inc., “Global enterprise IT spending in the banking and investment services market is forecast to increase by 7.7% in 2023 to $666.5 billion in constant US dollars.

Qovery is a G2 Momentum Leader for 2023

On top of being named a High Performer in the G2 Reports 6 times in a row in our category and earning the User Loves US badge every quarter, we have achieved a new milestone by being named Momentum Leader for 2023 in the G2 Reports! We are also grateful for our users’ continued support, resulting in us receiving a 4.8/5 stars rating.

Ocean CD is now available: Control Kubernetes application changes with reliable continuous delivery automation

In the beginning, cloud cost savings were the focus for Spot. As we grew, our customers helped us understand that cloud cost reduction is just one of the many challenges they face when operating in the public cloud. Spot by NetApp has since invested in and developed multiple solutions that can promote FinOps best practices and equip DevOps with comprehensive infrastructure automation and optimization solutions for VMs and containers.

GitOps the Planet #13: eBPF - what's all the buzz about with Liz Rice

Liz Rice has a knack for predicting the future of DevOps and she's all a buzz about eBPF, a revolutionary technology to dynamically program kernels for networking, observability, tracing, and security. The technology is driving a lot of excitement but what does the ability to hook into the kernel really give us and how is it changing software delivery? Join this exploratory session of GitOps the Planet with Liz Rice to find out!

Using the Elastic Agent to monitor Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Elastic Observability

AWS Fargate is a serverless pay-as-you-go engine used for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to run Docker containers without having to manage servers or clusters. The goal of Fargate is to containerize your application and specify the OS, CPU and memory, networking, and IAM policies needed for launch. Additionally, AWS Fargate can be used with Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in a similar manner.

Demystified Service Mesh Capabilities for Developers

Service Meshes have been gaining a lot of popularity lately, more so amongst Spring and Java developers who wish to address cross cutting concerns. But, are you wondering what exactly are Service Meshes? What are some of the popular types out there? And most importantly, what kind of problems do they actually solve? Well, look no further! This blog is here to provide you with the answers you seek.

Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts

Before attending Icinga Berlin in May this year, Daniel Bodky and Markus Opolka from our partner NETWAYS developed the very first Icinga Kubernetes Helm Charts and released it in an alpha version. If you have ever wanted to deploy an entire Icinga stack in your Kubernetes cluster, now is your chance. I also want to highlight Daniel’s talk again on how Icinga can run on Kubernetes and the challenges involved.