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2021 Pepperdata Survey: The Reality of Kubernetes in Action

More companies than ever before are migrating to Kubernetes and seeing the results of Kubernetes in action. Kubernetes (K8s) is a key platform for big data users, and as such, we wanted to dive deeper and discover some new truths about current Kubernetes challenges and what the solutions might be. We surveyed 600 IT and big data professionals from various industries to determine which big data applications enterprises are moving or intending to move to Kubernetes.

Bare metal Kubernetes: The 6 things you wish you knew before 2022

2022 is right around the corner, and it’s not just time to prepare for christmas, play video games, buy presents, or share anti-christmas memes. It’s time to start making some predictions for bare metal Kubernetes! Take a minute and let’s think about it. Developers have advent of code so they’re busy right now. Sysadmins and devops can play games like predicting what’s going to happen next year for bare metal Kubernetes.

The 5 main reasons why startups leave Heroku for AWS

Heroku is a cloud-based platform that helps companies build, deliver, monitor, and scale applications with high velocity. Heroku's popularity is due to its simplicity, usability, elegance, and focus on the developer experience. Developers find Heroku helpful as they can get their application ready and running with only minimal focus on configuring infrastructure. Heroku scores on easiness in architecting apps, deploying them to flexible cloud infrastructure, and scaling them as required.

Observing Kubernetes With LM Logs

As more and more IT organizations move towards containerized workloads and services, it is more important than ever to have insight into the containers and the services running within. Leading the container orchestration charge is Kubernetes (aka k8s – the 8 represents the letters omitted from the middle of the word). In fact, about two-thirds of IT engineers have seen their Kubernetes option increase during the pandemic as there becomes more need for scaling and performance.

Unifying VM and microservice monitoring with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana

According to a 2020 CNCF survey, the use of containers in production has been rapidly increasing for the past several years. Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, is part of that trend.

Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations with Datree

Join Datree’s Shimon Tolts and Civo’s Kunal Kushwaha and as they talk about preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations and deprecations. Shimon walks through why you should automate your Kubernetes cluster upgrades and scan for deprecations regularly, and ultimately, how to do this easily with open source tooling. Kunal focuses on minimizing Kubernetes misconfigurations that can cause clusters to fail in production with Datree. Including setup and installation of the tool, some of the key features, policy management, tokens, and more.