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Sysdig launches Partner Technical Accreditation Program

In the quest for business transformation and digital modernization, organizations have rapidly adopted devops frameworks, microservice architectures, serverless technologies, and containerized infrastructures. However, they have realized that legacy tools cannot adequately address the newer security and monitoring challenges associated with modernization. Sysdig’s mission is to make every cloud platform secure and reliable from source to run.

Easy Kubernetes metrics and cluster management with K9s, Kubectx, and Kubens

Efficiently retrieving Kubernetes metrics is the beginning of cluster performance optimization. Cluster metrics such as logs and resources descriptions are crucial as they map the health of your cluster. There’s a Kubernetes tool called K9s that lets you access your Kubernetes cluster metrics swiftly using short keys. K9s prioritizes aesthetics and performance as it displays its contents and functions in an aesthetically pleasing UI.

Understanding monitoring and observability

Roaming in the world of cloud technology not only helps you take a glance at the realm of cutting-edge technology but also helps you get familiar with concepts such as monitoring and observability. This article will cover an introduction to monitoring and the need for monitoring applications. From here, we will look at how you can utilize the data received when monitoring an application. This will allow us to understand how the concept of observability fits in with monitoring.

Zero Trust: The New Security Model for Cloud Native Applications and Infrastructure

Zero Trust security is gaining attention and momentum as a security approach or mindset that can improve the security posture of enterprises as they continue to battle hackers. Because of this widespread attention on Zero Trust, every software security vendor seems to be jumping on the Zero Trust bandwagon. However, Zero Trust is not a product or service. No single product or vendor can sell you Zero Trust security.

Autoscaling Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Clusters for Logs: Using a Kubernetes Operator to Scale Up or Down

When we say “logs” we really mean any kind of time-series data: events, social media, you name it. See Jordan Sissel’s definition of time + data. And when we talk about autoscaling, what we really want is a hands-off approach at handling Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clusters. In this post, we’ll show you how to use a Kubernetes Operator to autoscale Elasticsearch clusters, going through the following with just a few commands.

Considerations When You Mock APIs Inside of Kubernetes

Today it’s not unusual to see organizations having implemented mocking in their daily workflow, as mock APIs allow developers to speed up their development and not rely on external services. For those reasons and others, many engineers are looking to learn more about the mocked APIs and how they can best be implemented into their organization.

My Feedback about Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks

2 months ago, I discovered Nixpacks - an alternative to Buildpacks to build a final container image that simply works. I’ve tried it with multiple projects, and the promise is very good. I feel it is less black magic than Buildpacks and easily extensible. In this article, I will share my feedback on the pros and the cons of this emerging project. Let's go!