Using spot instances for mission-critical workloads always carried the risk of interruptions, making their use, while financially attractive, less than ideal from a reliability perspective. Spot by NetApp has made it possible for cloud consumers to use spot instances for dramatic cost savings while ensuring high availability for all kinds of workloads. Spot Availability Scores are core to our cloud infrastructure offerings, which are leveraged to provide maximum availability while mitigating risks.

The Apache Spark and Kubernetes integration was recently officially declared Generally Available and Production Ready, generating a lot of interest from the community. More and more companies choose to run their big data workloads on Kubernetes to benefit from containerization and a standard cloud-native ecosystem.

The widespread adoption of Kubernetes has made it table stakes for the modern cloud native stack. Software is now being purpose-built for Kubernetes, and as companies enter this new phase of their cloud journey, they are looking to scale. Building upon years of experience with Kubernetes, Spot by NetApp is continuously innovating to bring new ways to achieve this goal. From container-optimized, serverless infrastructure to Kubernetes-native continuous delivery, Spot is connecting the dots to vastly improve the efficiency and manageability of Kubernetes applications and environments.

Learn how to use the open source CLI tool, eksctl, to create and upgrade a cluster to Ocean, Spot by NetApp's serverless container engine

Cory Gale, Director of Engineering at longtime Spot customer, GumGum, talks about how his team uses Spot to keep cloud costs low and free DevOps from the manual burdens of cloud infrastructure.

Hear how Elastigroup's Intelligent Traffic Flow feature is helping longtime Spot customer GumGum increase availability and use more types of spot instances.

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Josh Schlanger, Head of Technical Operations at The RealReal shares his story of being Spot's customer since 2016 in various companies.