In our series of blog posts based on Automated Containerization, here is another quick read on why Enterprises should invest in containerization of applications instead of Lift-and-Shift approach. Legacy applications can be slow and expensive to maintain. If you use the Lift-and-Shift approach to migrate applications to cloud is relatively inexpensive, but ongoing operating costs can be exactly the opposite. The contention is that applications perform and evolve relative to their environments.

Lifecycle management is one of the most complicated components of Kubernetes. In a past article, we showed how to modify a cluster to change the type and size of its nodes. In this post, we will explain how to upgrade the Kubernetes version of a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster when there is a new release. And the best part is that it’s all done in just a few easy steps using the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere.

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.

After careful design and development with real-life input from our clients and beta testing with major organizations such as Major League Baseball, we announced this past spring the release of our new Kubernetes monitoring solution. Now, we’re excited to share that organizations can sign up for a free, no commitment 45-day trial of our Kubernetes monitoring solution. It’s simple. The solution installs in minutes, and turnkey health and performance dashboards instantly auto-populate.

This post is the second in our Kubernetes observability tutorial series, where we explore how you can monitor all aspects of your applications running in Kubernetes, including: We’ll cover using Elastic Observability to ingest and analyze container metrics in Kibana using the Metrics app and out-of-the-box dashboards.

We’re excited to announce a new KubeAcademy course—Building Images. Designed for developers, devops engineers, and architects, this intermediate-level course covers different approaches for building images. Completing it will give you the skills and understanding needed to easily start building images and maintain them over time.