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The OpenTelemetry Collector is a useful application to have in your stack. However, deploying it has always felt a little time consuming: working out how to host the config, building the deployments, etc. The good news is the OpenTelemetry team also produces Helm charts for the Collector, and I’ve started leveraging them. There are a few things to think about when using them though, so I thought I’d go through them here.

Gremlin's Detected Risks feature immediately detects any high-priority reliability concerns in your environment. These can include misconfigurations, bad default values, or reliability anti-patterns. A common risk is deploying Pods without setting a CPU request. While it may seem like a low-impact, low-severity issue, not using CPU requests can have a big impact, including preventing your Pod from running.

Since its inception, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has emerged as a strong choice for developers aiming to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS cloud. By abstracting the complexities associated with container orchestration, ECS allows teams to focus on application development, while handling the underlying infrastructure, load balancing, and service discovery requirements.

In this tutorial, you’ll see how to deploy Solr on Kubernetes. You’ll also see how to use the Solr Operator to autoscale a SolrCloud cluster based on CPU with the help of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Let’s get going! 🙂

Cloud Tagging should be automated, not left to humans. Optimization in the cloud is actually really simple. Here’s how we get our customers thinking differently which in turn makes them successful. “To your developers the cloud is like a candy store is to a kid where all the candy is free”. Just as parents need to teach their kids the value of money, you need to teach your developers the value of cloud spend.

Welcome to the Calico monthly roundup: August edition! From open source news to live events, we have exciting updates to share—let’s get into it!

An advanced, open-source technology called Kubernetes is used to manage, scale and deploy containerised applications automatically. Kubernetes offers a strong architecture that enables development and operations teams to effectively manage applications of several containers. Kubernetes was made by Google engineers. They shared it for free in 2014, and now a group called CNCF takes care of Kubernetes. People really like using Kubernetes to manage apps inside containers.