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How We Leveraged the Honeycomb Network Agent for Kubernetes to Remediate Our IMDS Security Finding

Picture this: It’s 2 p.m. and you’re sipping on coffee, happily chugging away at your daily routine work. The security team shoots you a message saying the latest pentest or security scan found an issue that needs quick remediation. On the surface, that’s not a problem and can be considered somewhat routine, given the pace of new CVEs coming out. But what if you look at your tooling and find it lacking when you start remediating the issue?

How to Build an App with Spin and Wasm with Matt Butcher & Saiyam Pathak - Navigate Europe 23

Join Saiyam Pathak and Matt Butcher for an engaging workshop. This session dives into the exciting world of WebAssembly, offering insights into its evolution, key features, and practical applications. Discover how WebAssembly stands out from previous technologies and learn about its role in modern web development through hands-on examples and discussions.

Scaling Down Kubernetes Clusters

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. This infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different feature and capacity needs.

How Can You Navigate the CNCF Ecosystem? Insights from Kunal Kushwaha - Navigate Europe 23

Dive into the world of cloud-native technologies with Kunal Kushwaha at Navigate Europe 2023. Kunal explores the CNCF landscape, offering practical advice on selecting tools, understanding project maturity, and staying updated with evolving technologies.

Monitoring Docker Containers Using OpenTelemetry [Full Tutorial]

Monitoring Docker container metrics is essential for understanding the performance and health of your containers. OpenTelemetry collector can collect Docker container metrics and send it to a backend of your choice. In this tutorial, you will install an OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Docker container metrics and send it to SigNoz, an OpenTelemetry-native APM for monitoring and visualization.

Provisioning and Autoscaling

Datadog, the observability platform used by thousands of companies, runs on dozens of self-managed Kubernetes clusters in a multi-cloud environment, adding up to tens of thousands of nodes, or hundreds of thousands of pods. This infrastructure is used by a wide variety of engineering teams at Datadog, with different feature and capacity needs.

Is YAML Essential for Kubernetes? Engin Diri Explores Alternatives - Navigate Europe 2023

Join Engin Diri, an expert in Kubernetes and cloud transformation from Pulumi, as he explores the challenges of using YAML in Kubernetes and presents more efficient alternatives. In this talk, Engin discusses the limitations of YAML and showcases how generic programming languages can significantly improve the deployment process in Kubernetes. Watch as he demonstrates the practical application of tools like Pulumi and CDK8s.

Understanding roles in software operators

As we’ve seen throughout this series, a design pattern is a general solution that has been proven to solve a repeatedly occurring problem when designing software. In my previous blog posts, we examined the basics of the software operator design pattern, the forces impacting it, and the advantages and disadvantages of using it. But how does the software operator pattern actually work?