We are excited to announce in-place Kublr Platform upgrades and a technical preview for external cluster support. That’s yet another step in making enterprise-grade Kubernetes adoption a breeze. While Kublr supports automated rolling cluster updates and upgrades with zero downtime, since our last release (1.17) updating the platform itself was still a semi-manual project supported by the Kublr team. Now, all it takes is the click of a button.

Kubernetes governance may sound dull. But, if you’re an enterprise, it’s a critical part of what you must figure out to be production-ready at scale. When standardizing on-demand services for your dev teams — a DevOps best practice — you must ensure that groups deploying Kubernetes clusters follow certain rules, a process that is typically automated via policy management.

If you’ve done your research, you probably know that Kubernetes is only one piece of the puzzle. Production grade deployments require a lot of moving pieces including logging and monitoring, governance, and more. You’ll also need some key extensions — some Kubernetes can’t go without, others that will make your life a lot easier. Let’s take a closer look.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon sponsored this post, in anticipation of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, in Amsterdam. If you’re new to Kubernetes and have been tasked with researching a vendor-supported platform for your enterprise, chances are you’re feeling overwhelmed. You’ll encounter a seemingly never-ending list of vendors, all promising more or less the same. To help you navigate the space and ask vendors the right questions, we created this no-BS Kubernetes checklist.

Most enterprises already have a reliable logging and monitoring system in place, so why should you worry about it in the context of Kubernetes? Well, traditional logging and monitoring tools are designed for stable infrastructure and application deployments. Cloud native environments, on the other hand, are highly dynamic. The IT world has changed and so must your toolkit.