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July 2023

Ep. 5: Scaling the Cloud: The Growth & Future of AKS featuring Jorge Palma

Jul 28, 2023 By Spot In Spot
In this episode, Shon speaks with Jorge Palma, Principal Product Manager for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). They dive deep into the transformation and evolution of Microsoft Azure and the pivotal role of AKS in shaping the future of cloud-native computing. Discover the unique journey from inception to innovation, and learn about the challenges and successes in testing and scaling AKS in every Azure region worldwide. Gain valuable insights into Microsoft's implementation of cloud optimization tools that provide customers with the best value per compute unit.
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Announcing Spot's new Azure CLI onboarding tool

Jul 26, 2023 By Logan Long In Spot
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure CLI (Command Line Interface) Onboarding tool! This innovative addition significantly streamlines the process of integrating Azure accounts into the Spot platform. Until now, the process was manual, requiring several steps in the Azure portal that were time-consuming and, quite frankly, a tad cumbersome.
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Dynamic Kubernetes PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) reuse with Ocean for Apache Spark

Jul 25, 2023 By Hudson Buzby In Spot
One of the most exciting implementations to come out of Apache Spark™ on Kubernetes is the dynamic creation, mounting, and remounting of a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) within a Spark application. We’ve spoken previously about how PVCs can be used to recover shuffle data and prevent application failure after a spot kill has occurred, negating one of the biggest drawbacks of spot instance usage in Spark workloads.
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Simplify GitHub Actions scaling with Spot Connect and Elastigroup

Jul 19, 2023 By Karan Shetty In Spot
GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform that allows you to define custom workflows and automate various tasks within your software development projects. With GitHub Actions, you can set up continuous integration and deployment pipelines, run tests, perform code analysis, and execute other actions whenever specific events occur, such as pushing code to a repository or creating a pull request.
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How FinOps should become a strategy for continuous cloud and cost efficiency

Jul 18, 2023 By Guest Author, Dave McCarthy In Spot
Cloud computing was originally pitched as a cost-savings alternative to traditional IT infrastructure. The concept was simple: only purchase what you need and adjust those resources up and down based on demand. This eliminated large up-front costs and made it possible to right-size the amount of compute and storage infrastructure based on a specific workload. While that might have been true in the beginning, CIOs are finding themselves in a different situation today.
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The State of CloudOps in 2023: FinOps is still a work in progress

Jul 6, 2023 By Spot by NetApp In Spot
Effective CloudOps teams can control costs, improve security, optimize resources, and provide superior services across their cloud environments. These teams can also leverage FinOps, the cross-functional cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that promotes visibility and collaboration to help organizations manage, optimize, and predict their cloud spend.
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How to maximize utilization of AWS spot instances with Elastigroup

Jul 5, 2023 By Shelly Srour In Spot
The AWS spot instances marketplace provides many options to generate savings. AWS’s cloud ecosystem offers several different instance types, zones, and architectures to support almost any application demand. The abundance of options can overwhelm even experienced cloud professionals and may prevent the organization from fully reaping the benefits of working with spot instances.
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