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By Erez Rabih
Financial institutions face unprecedented challenges in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. The demand for agile, scalable, and resilient systems is at an all-time high, driven by a diverse and dynamic customer base that expects real-time, reliable services. This is where Kubernetes, a leading open-source container orchestration platform, emerges as a pivotal solution. Kubernetes has revolutionized software development and deployment.
This year’s KubeCon was a whirlwind of insights and innovations. It’s always exhilarating to see how far we’ve come and where Kubernetes is taking us next. So, let’s unpack the top trends that are setting the stage for the next wave of developments in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
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By Guy Menachem
AI has had a massive impact on every part of our lives, but mainly on how we consume large data sets easily. The observability world is based on collecting enormous amounts of data and consuming it by observing dashboards built on monitoring tools. Most of the o11y tasks like writing complex queries, creating dashboards & defining alerts, have been done much in the same way for the last decade & AI models are well-positioned to disrupt this modus operandi.
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By Guy Menachem
Backstage is gaining wide adoption for platform engineering teams looking to build internal development platforms. After implementing Backstage, data has shown an improvement in 2X of code changes, and a decrease of 17% in cycle time making a huge impact on the business delivery pipeline for organizations. Backstage with its rich plugin ecosystem, makes it possible to get full troubleshooting and security coverage you need across your entire pipeline in a single dashboard and interface.
The need for automation is becoming more important day by day. The process of integrating written code with already working code and publishing new code to live environments is a very error-prone process. Performing static analysis, running tests, packaging, and versioning are tasks that require a lot of manual effort. It’s also a complex task to solve the problem of deploying the projects we develop to more than one environment, on more than one machine, without automation.
As with any distributed system, networking plays a fundamental role in Kubernetes. Whether it’s allowing containers on different nodes to communicate, exposing services to external clients, or managing the flow of data between pods, Kubernetes networking is at the heart of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Understanding this system is the key to keeping your deployments running smoothly.
Configuration as code (CaC), a practice that involves setting up operating systems and software through configuration files, has quickly become an essential concept for software developers and DevOps teams. The key reason for this is that CaC integrates seamlessly with CI/CD and version control pipelines, a game-changing benefit discussed in this article.
We at Komodor are excited to announce our groundbreaking integration with Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO). This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Kubernetes Continuous Reliability, bringing together the best of both worlds to redefine Kubernetes management.
An elite DevOps team from Komodor takes on the Klustered challenge; can they fix a maliciously broken Kubernetes cluster using only the Komodor platform? Let’s find out! Watch Komodor’s Co-Founding CTO, Itiel Shwartz, and two engineers – Guy Menahem and Nir Shtein leverage the Continuous Kubernetes Reliability Platform that they’ve built to showcase how fast, effortless, and even fun, troubleshooting can be!
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By Guy Menachem
In the dynamic world of containerized applications, effective monitoring and optimization are crucial to ensure the efficient operation of Kubernetes clusters. Metrics give you valuable insights into the performance and resource utilization of pods, which are the fundamental units of deployment in Kubernetes. By harnessing the power of pod metrics, organizations can unlock numerous benefits, ranging from cost optimization to capacity planning and ensuring application availability.
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By Komodor
Ashan Senevirathne is an experienced Product Owner and Senior DevOps Engineer with a proven track record in driving innovation and efficiency in telecommunications. Currently with Swisscom, leading the development of a cloud-native orchestration framework for 5G Core using Kubernetes. Adept at optimizing release engineering processes, championing CI/CD workflows, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Recognized for his expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud-native principles, and network orchestration.
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By Komodor
A long-time open-source programmer and entrepreneur, Gabriele has a degree in Statistics from the University of Florence. After having consistently contributed to the growth of 2ndQuadrant and its members through nurturing a lean and DevOps culture, he is now leading the Cloud Native initiative at EDB.
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By Komodor
Arthur Enright, Senior Solution Engineer, demoing Komodor's guided troubleshooting experience.
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By Komodor
Arthur Enright, Senior Solution Engineer, presenting Komodor's mission control for platform teams - the clusters dashboard.
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By Komodor
Special KubeCon EU 2024 Episode! She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine..
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By Komodor
Adrian Cockcroft has played an instrumental role in shaping the modern cloud computing landscape, particularly through his contributions at Netflix and later at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With a background in computer science, Cockcroft’s career has spanned various roles, including developer, architect, and executive positions, where his insights into scalable, resilient systems design have had a profound impact.
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By Komodor
Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he currently lives in San Francisco.
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By Komodor
The Handbook for Kubernetes Errors is an essential guide to understanding and resolving all of the most common Kubernetes issues, including: and many more.
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Komodor tracks changes across your entire K8s stack analyzes their ripple effect and provides you with the context you need to troubleshoot efficiently and independently.
Today’s microservices systems are complex, distributed and they are constantly changing. Keeping track of so many moving parts in so many places often seems nearly impossible! Komodor is the missing piece in your DevOps toolchain – offering one unified platform from which you can gain a deep understanding of all of your system events, changes and their effect.
Turning troubleshooting chaos into clarity:
- Empower on-call teams: Make the knowledge and expertise that has traditionally been held by only a few, clear and visible to Dev and SRE teams.
- Understand your Kubernetes: Gain the K8s visibility you are lacking. See your deployments on a timeline with the relevant information: what changed, what code was pushed and by whom.
- Track your system end-to-end: View data from your Git, config, infra, alerting and other tools, in one centralized and easy-to-understand display.
- Uncovering the context: Troubleshoot your microservices based on the most relevant context, connections and dependencies.
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