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January 2022

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Spot Ocean now supports Kubernetes pod topology spread constraints

Jan 31, 2022 By Gilad Shahar In Spot
As a premium autoscaler for containers and Kubernetes applications, Spot Ocean automatically and continuously executes scaling actions based on the requests and specified constraints of pods and specific containers. This container-driver autoscaling approach is core to how Ocean leverages and optimizes the compute infrastructure required to run containers in the cloud.
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Ocean explained: Ocean controller deepdive

Jan 27, 2022 By Amit Bar Oz In Spot
As a managed data plane service for containerized applications, Spot Ocean provides a severless experience for running containers in the cloud. Ocean integrates with the control plane of your choice, and handles key areas of infrastructure management, from provisioning compute and autoscaling, to pricing optimization and right-sizing. A core component of Ocean’s architecture is the Ocean controller, which is how Ocean and your Kubernetes cluster integrate and interact.
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Cluster Roll feature enhancements now available

Jan 27, 2022 By Revital Vladimirsky In Spot
Spot by NetApp’s Ocean includes a powerful feature called “cluster roll.” This feature simplifies applying changes to Kubernetes worker nodes. Typical changes include applying a new image, modifying or adding user data, and updating security groups. A cluster roll applies these changes without having to disable the Ocean autoscaler. It also removes the need for you to manually attach new nodes or remove replaced nodes from the cluster.
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Improve Apache Spark performance with the S3 magic committer

Jan 20, 2022 By Jean-Yves Stephan In Spot
Most Apache Spark users overlook the choice of an S3 committer (a protocol used by Spark when writing output results to S3), because it is quite complex and documentation about it is scarce. This choice has a major impact on performance whenever you write data to S3. On average, a large portion of Spark jobs are spent writing to S3, so choosing the right S3 committer is important for AWS Spark users.
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Ocean Insights now available for Google Cloud

Jan 20, 2022 By Revital Vladimirsky In Spot
As companies move more applications into the cloud, and package them into containers, environments become more complex with limited visibility. While infrastructure is abstracted away as much of it is delivered by the hyperscalers, this creates an opaqueness that makes it hard to control costs and understand resource utilization. As a result, many companies are experiencing high cloud bills and lots of cloud waste.
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Ocean explained: container-driven autoscaling with Kubernetes

Jan 13, 2022 By Amit Bar Oz In Spot
Whether you’re using a managed Kubernetes service like AWS EKS, GCP GKE or Azure AKS, or self-managing a DIY cluster deployed with open source tools like kops and Kubespray, the underlying hardware can vary from container to container. Each container requires specific resources (CPU/ memory/GPU/network/disk) and as long as the underlying infrastructure can provide those resources, the container will be able to execute its business logic.
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Accelerate incident analysis by incorporating Ocean logs in any pipeline

Jan 13, 2022 By Gilad Shahar In Spot
Spot Ocean delivers container-driven autoscaling to continuously monitor and optimize your cloud environment. Positioned at a busy crossroads in the application deployment pipeline, Ocean has a critical role when shipping new containers. Given the highly dynamic nature of Kubernetes environments, events happen constantly and take shape as logs in Ocean. These can help you understand the chain of events in different scaling scenarios, from debugging cluster issues to incident analysis.
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AWS re:Invent 2021: Scale the Kubernetes-first, cloud-native model

Jan 12, 2022 By Spot In Spot
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.
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Enhanced security for the Spot-Jenkins plugin

Jan 3, 2022 By Noam Stern In Spot
Many of Spot by NetApp customers run Jenkins as a core part of their CI/CD processes and use it together with Spot’s Elastigroup to deploy jobs running on spot instances. This integration has helped our customers realize up to 90% savings on cloud computing, and seamlessly fits into their existing DevOps workflows.
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Spot publishes module collection in Ansible Galaxy

Jan 2, 2022 By Noam Stern In Spot

Ansible is an open-source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes. It is one of the most widely-used provisioning tools in the industry to enable infrastructure as code (IAC), made popular by its ease of use and simple, but powerful automation. With easy integration, you can use Ansible and Spot to fully automate and optimize your cloud infrastructure.

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