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We are pleased to announce that a tech preview version of Rancher Desktop with support for Docker Extensions has just been released!

Buildpacks and Docker are popular containerizations and modern software development tools that package and deploy applications that provide portable and reproducible containers. While providing similar end results, they have different approaches and use cases. In this article, I will expose our experience at Qovery dealing with Buildpacks and why we strongly advise you to move away from it as soon as your project gets any more serious.

The State of Preview Environments Report is a survey conducted by Qovery gathering feedback from 1,289 seasoned software engineers with diverse experiences, ranging from growing to enterprise-level organizations. This report aims to get a pulse on the perception and adoption of Preview Environments among the software engineering community.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption of cloud-native technologies and practices. Established in 2015 as a part of the Linux Foundation, the CNCF has become a prominent open-source organization that aims to develop a standardized and vendor-neutral cloud-native stack. The CNCF seeks to enable the use of cloud-native computing for building scalable and resilient applications in dynamic environments.

As one of the most popular open-source Kubernetes monitoring solutions, Prometheus leverages a multidimensional data model of time-stamped metric data and labels. The platform uses a pull-based architecture to collect metrics from various targets. It stores the metrics in a time-series database and provides the powerful PromQL query language for efficient analysis and data visualization.

I am excited to announce the release of our new logs interface inside Qovery. This feature is a crucial milestone in our journey to improve the debugging experience and provide better insights into deployment failures. As we are just about releasing parallel deployment, we revamped the interface to accommodate the concept of Deployment Pipeline, ensuring a seamless experience when deploying your applications.

As organizations increasingly adopt containerized applications, it is essential to understand what container orchestration is. This guide delves into what container orchestration is, its benefits, and how it works, comparing popular platforms like Kubernetes and Docker. We will also discuss multi-cloud container orchestration and the role of Rancher Prime in simplifying container orchestration management.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Kubewarden 1.6.0 stack. This release brings stability, performance and security improvements; all packed with a new major feature. Let’s dig into the changes!