Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore how the agile philosophy can help organizations manage their operations.
How are you deploying your applications in 2019? Are you using containers yet? According to recent research over 80% of you are. If you are within this group, were you initially sold on the idea of containers but found that in reality, the complexity involved with this approach makes it a difficult trade-off to justify? The community is aware of this and has come up with a remedy to ease the pain, and it’s called container orchestration.
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Barcelona, the Grafana Labs team delivered four well-received talks as well as a keynote in front of thousands of attendees. In case you missed the conference (or you want to watch the sessions again!), check out the links to our recap blog posts or watch the talks below.
In this post we want to share some features that were created or updated back in 2016. We are currently moving content from our old blog platform so while you might already know these features it is always good to take a fresh look at things. And as we are always upgrading & enhancing features, some of the items have been edited to reflect the current state.
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In an ideal scenario, security would be baked into the development process from the very beginning. Security teams would primarily exist to verify that best practices have been followed at every step in the process. In practice, security is an enormous challenge for most organizations. This challenge is compounded by the increasingly complex and fast-paced nature of modern service-oriented architectures, such as Kubernetes.
In this new Pandora FMS update, improvements have been made in the visual consoles, SLA reports, WUX and the monthly cron jobs, among others. Pandora FMS improves every day to make the user console much more simple and user-friendly.
CoreDNS is a DNS server that can also provide service discovery for microservice-based applications. It’s the default DNS server in Kubernetes, providing name resolution and service discovery for the services operating in the cluster. CoreDNS is easily customizable, so you can define how it should act on each request beyond simply executing a DNS lookup.
Logs are unpredictable. Following a production incident, and precisely when you need them the most, logs can suddenly surge and overwhelm your logging infrastructure. To protect Logstash and Elasticsearch against such data bursts, users deploy buffering mechanisms to act as message brokers. Apache Kafka is the most common broker solution deployed together the ELK Stack.
