Ever experienced bad logging- whether it’s the wrong log, the wrong information, or a multitude of other logging woes? We aren’t able to count the number of times anymore that we’ve happily gone and set log lines, only to find out that it was all for naught. The frustrations are endless. What is meant to be magic for your code, the ultimate savior when debugging, has become the ultimate frustration.

Secrets, by definition, should be kept secret, whichever tool you’re using. While there are plenty of best practices for keeping your Kubernetes secrets actually secret, there are some loopholes that can compromise their security, and might be taken advantage of by malicious entities. This post will cover prevalent best practices for securing your secrets on Kubernetes along with some new approaches for secrets management.

As we discussed in our previous post on cloud cost analysis and optimization, with over 60% of all cloud costs attributable to compute, focusing on compute infrastructure spend should be of the utmost priority. In this post we will focus on the public cloud vendors’ pricing models and how to best leverage them all for maximum cost optimization.

Cloud cost management is essential for business success, especially in times of business and global volatility. However, gaining quick and clear visibility into all your containerized workloads so you can control and improve the way they are being used, has not been so simple to date. At Spot, we have been addressing these issues and recently introduced cost analysis and showback tools for Kubernetes within our Ocean solution.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes (K8s) have proven to be a powerful combination, with more K8s users also using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) more than any other Kubernetes managed service. With EKS, users are able to benefit from the agility and scalability of Kubernetes on AWS without having to manage the K8s control plane. Paired with Ocean by Spot, users are able to abstract away infrastructure management as well.

Ocean by Spot is a fully managed solution for your Kubernetes and/or AWS ECS data plane, with the goal of delivering a serverless container experience for application developers. With that in mind, we are excited to announce that users can now import AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) into Ocean via the Spot Console.

Ocean by Spot’s right-sizing feature helps cloud users optimize their workload resource utilization while reducing unnecessary infrastructure costs. Ocean continuously monitors Kubernetes workloads’ CPU and Memory usage, providing sizing recommendations for deployments based on the delta between the workload’s request and utilization.