Do you need a “Cloud Exit Strategy”?. In recent years, cloud services have become an integral part of the digital infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Organizations are increasingly leveraging cloud computing to enhance their operations.

In a fiercely competitive market, against a background of vendor licensing cost changes that are impacting profit margins, many MSPs offering digital workspaces are modernizing to remain relevant and futureproof. Many managed service providers have historically focused mostly on uptime/downtime, resource monitoring and so on. Automation tools are reducing the value of conventional managed services.

A Comprehensive Guide for SREs Build Foundational Knowledge on How etcd fits into the Kubernetes Ecosystem etcd is the single source-of-truth data store for the Kubernetes cluster. As a Key-Value store with advanced features, etcd stores mission-critical Kubernetes data: configuration data, the cluster state and metadata. This information is key for the Kubernetes cluster to scale and self-heal. If etcd malfunctions, it can cause failures on the Kubernetes cluster.