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AWS Lambda has a soft limit of 75GB for deployment packages for all your functions (including the layers you use). This might seem a lot, but a team that has fully embraced serverless can reach this limit very quickly.
Calico is a popular CNI plugin for Kubernetes. It leverages Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for communicating routes available on nodes. This method fosters a highly scalable networking model between our workloads.
As it is already a tradition, here we are with What’s new for Kubernetes 1.14. Here at Sysdig we follow the Kubernetes development cycle closely in order to bring you a sneak peak of the enhancements and new features that Kubernetes 1.14 will contain when released on March 25, 2019.
I started the new GuardianDevOps service to share my expertise with other engineers. I was thrilled to find an internal problem to work on as the inaugural session! Only a single day after I decided to start this service, a Blue Matador customer noticed some repetitive alerts from our agent heartbeat. I was excited to join the fray with Keilan, one of our talented engineers, and fix the problem for our customers.
Network architecture is one of the more complicated aspects of many Kubernetes installations. The Kubernetes networking model itself demands certain network features but allows for some flexibility regarding the implementation. As a result, various projects have been released to address specific environments and requirements.
I am a proud lazy programmer. This means that if I can automate a task, I will absolutely do it. Especially if it means I can avoid doing the same thing more than once. Luckily, as an engineer, my laziness is an asset - because this week, it led me to write an HTML scraper for our Changelog, just so I wouldn’t have to manually update the Changelog feed on our new app homepage (btw, have you seen our new app homepage? It’s pretty sweet).
A proper container security strategy involves evaluating all components in the system.
As your AWS usage grows, so will your stockpile of EBS snapshots and AMI images. Many of these are used for backups, while others are used to launch EC2 instances from Auto Scaling groups and EC2 launch templates. As your collection of AMI images grows, you will need to start rotating out the old AMI images.