Backstage is gaining wide adoption for platform engineering teams looking to build internal development platforms. After implementing Backstage, data has shown an improvement in 2X of code changes, and a decrease of 17% in cycle time making a huge impact on the business delivery pipeline for organizations. Backstage with its rich plugin ecosystem, makes it possible to get full troubleshooting and security coverage you need across your entire pipeline in a single dashboard and interface.

The need for automation is becoming more important day by day. The process of integrating written code with already working code and publishing new code to live environments is a very error-prone process. Performing static analysis, running tests, packaging, and versioning are tasks that require a lot of manual effort. It’s also a complex task to solve the problem of deploying the projects we develop to more than one environment, on more than one machine, without automation.

As with any distributed system, networking plays a fundamental role in Kubernetes. Whether it’s allowing containers on different nodes to communicate, exposing services to external clients, or managing the flow of data between pods, Kubernetes networking is at the heart of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Understanding this system is the key to keeping your deployments running smoothly.

Configuration as code (CaC), a practice that involves setting up operating systems and software through configuration files, has quickly become an essential concept for software developers and DevOps teams. The key reason for this is that CaC integrates seamlessly with CI/CD and version control pipelines, a game-changing benefit discussed in this article.

We at Komodor are excited to announce our groundbreaking integration with Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO). This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Kubernetes Continuous Reliability, bringing together the best of both worlds to redefine Kubernetes management.

An elite DevOps team from Komodor takes on the Klustered challenge; can they fix a maliciously broken Kubernetes cluster using only the Komodor platform? Let’s find out! Watch Komodor’s Co-Founding CTO, Itiel Shwartz, and two engineers – Guy Menahem and Nir Shtein leverage the Continuous Kubernetes Reliability Platform that they’ve built to showcase how fast, effortless, and even fun, troubleshooting can be!

In the dynamic world of containerized applications, effective monitoring and optimization are crucial to ensure the efficient operation of Kubernetes clusters. Metrics give you valuable insights into the performance and resource utilization of pods, which are the fundamental units of deployment in Kubernetes. By harnessing the power of pod metrics, organizations can unlock numerous benefits, ranging from cost optimization to capacity planning and ensuring application availability.

As technology takes the driver’s seat in our lives, Kubernetes is taking center stage in IT operations. Google first introduced Kubernetes in 2014 to handle high-demand workloads. Today, it has become the go-to choice for cloud-native environments. Kubernetes’ primary purpose is to simplify the management of distributed systems and offer a smooth interface for handling containerized applications no matter where they’re deployed.

Kubernetes, with its robust, flexible, and extensible architecture, has rapidly become the standard for managing containerized applications at scale. However, Kubernetes presents its own unique set of access control and security challenges. Given its distributed and dynamic nature, Kubernetes necessitates a different model than traditional monolithic apps.

Kubernetes has revolutionized how we manage and scale containerized applications, the flip side of this robustness is often a rising cloud bill. As you navigate the complexities of cluster growth across teams and applications, cost management can become a genuine headache. Enter Komodor’s newly released Cost Optimization Suite. In this blog post, we’ll unpack how this feature-rich addition to the Komodor platform will empower you to optimize costs without sacrificing performance.