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Provision your Cloud Infrastructure Directly with kubectl using OpenCP - Civo.com

With an ongoing problem surrounding the complexity of managing your clusters, OpenCP aims to provision your cloud infrastructure using kubectl. This talk with Dinesh Majrekar and Alejandro J. Nuñez Madrazo outlined how the OpenCP architecture can help make your deployment and management of Kubernetes infrastructure on multi-cloud environments easier with a live demo on how to get it set up. For more information on OpenCP.

How to Manage the High Cost of Scaling on Heroku

The ability to scale your applications is crucial for businesses, enabling them to manage growing user traffic, maintain application performance, and expand the business efficiently. Heroku has become one of the most popular platforms for this purpose due to its user-friendliness, rapid deployment, and support for various programming languages. Despite its powerful infrastructure and beneficial features, scaling on Heroku presents certain challenges in terms of high cost and poor performance.

Kubernetes 101: A comprehensive guide

Over time, Kubernetes has become a household name for container orchestration as organizations aim to streamline complex processes. With its rapidly growing popularity and convenient ecosystem, many organizations started using it to manage their applications and workloads. But what exactly is it, and how did it come into existence?

Migrating from Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager to Sysdig Monitor

Are you an OSS Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager user thinking about migrating to Sysdig Monitor, and don’t know about the transition details? Are you wondering what the benefits are of using Sysdig Monitor instead of DIY Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager? If so, then this article is for you!

Monitoring Kubernetes Object Configuration with LogicMonitor

Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration in modern software development, allowing organizations to manage and scale containerized applications easily. As a highly dynamic and distributed system, however, Kubernetes can be challenging to manage and maintain at scale. One of the most critical aspects of maintaining a stable and secure Kubernetes cluster is monitoring the object configurations and tracking the changes over a period of time.

A Kubernetes Observability Tool to Support SRE Best Practices

Kubernetes can be tough to troubleshoot and remediate fast, especially when you have many interdependent services. This blog, part 3 of 3 in the “8 SRE Best Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes” series, describes the Kubernetes observability foundation StackState has built to support SRE best practices and enable rapid remediation of issues.

Merging to Main #1: Modernizing your CI/CD

Modernizing your CI/CD can turn into a Sherlock-Holmes-style mystery if your organization or team is not fully prepared. And when migrating from monoliths to microservices, people tend to only focus on the really technical nitty gritty details, and don’t focus enough time on questions like: With experience as a consultant, architect, engineer, DevOps engineer, and developer evangelism, JJ Asghar, Developer Advocate at IBM has seen every side of the modernization process. And has so many stories to share.

Automating deployment to an EKS cluster using CircleCI and Helm Charts

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system for automating deployment and managing containerized applications. Helm is a Kubernetes package manager that helps you define, install, and upgrade Kubernetes applications. It lets you define reusable templates for Kubernetes components (deployment, service, hpa, service account, etc.) that can be published and shared across applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build and install Helm charts for your application to an AWS EKS cluster.

Qovery and Doppler Join Forces to Empower Developers with Next-Level Cloud Deployment and Security

I am excited to announce the partnership between Qovery and Doppler. Qovery is an infrastructure automation platform that helps developers deploy their applications more easily, while Doppler is a fully managed SecretOps platform that enables engineering teams to better manage their environment variables and secrets.

Practical tips for rightsizing your Kubernetes workloads

When containers and container orchestration were introduced, they opened the possibility of helping companies utilize physical resources like CPU and memory more efficiently. But as more companies and bigger enterprises have adopted Kubernetes, FinOps professionals may wonder why their cloud bills haven’t gone down—or worse, why they have increased.