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Top 11 Kubernetes Monitoring Tools[Includes Free & Open-Source] in 2024

Are you looking for Kubernetes monitoring tools? Then you have come to the right place. Kubernetes has grown to become the container orchestration platform of choice. It simplifies managing your containerized workloads. You get the power of automating deployments, scaling resources, and keeping your applications running smoothly. But with great power comes added responsibility. And like any complex system, Kubernetes needs monitoring.

Leveraging Argo Workflows for MLOps

As the demand for AI-based solutions continues to rise, there’s a growing need to build machine learning pipelines quickly without sacrificing quality or reliability. However, since data scientists, software engineers, and operations engineers use specialized tools specific to their fields, synchronizing their workflows to create optimized ML pipelines is challenging.

Introducing Cycle's Native Load Balancer

Over the last few months, you may have noticed that many of our changelog releases mentioned the release of, and improvements to, Cycle’s native load balancer. While this load balancer still officially remains in beta status, we wanted to begin diving into the details around it a bit more thoroughly: What is it? Why did we build it? How can you use it?

How to troubleshoot unschedulable Pods in Kubernetes

Kubernetes is built to scale, and with managed Kubernetes services, you can deploy a Pod without having to worry about capacity planning at all. So why is it that Pods sometimes become stuck in an "Unschedulable" state? How do you end up with Pods that have been "Pending" for several minutes? In this blog, we'll dig into the reasons Pods fail to schedule. We'll look at why it happens, how to troubleshoot it, and ways you can prevent it.

What's new in Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala

As Kubernetes continues its journey of innovation and improvement, the release of Kubernetes v1.29, also known as the Mandala release, marks another significant milestone. Through this update, there are a total of 49 enhancements, and of these enhancements, 11 have graduated to Stable, 19 have entered Beta, and 19 have graduated to Alpha. In this blog, we'll dive into the key updates of Kubernetes v1.29, highlighting how these changes will shape the future of container orchestration.

Looking Back on 2023 and Our Plans for 2024

At Qovery, we're constantly striving to revolutionize the way platform engineers and developers experience cloud infrastructure. In 2023, we embarked on an incredible journey of growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction. Today, as we stand at the threshold of 2024, we're thrilled to share some of our most significant achievements and reveal our ambitious roadmap for the year ahead.

Exploring the new EKS Pod Identity Functionality

One announcement that caught my attention in the EKS space during this year’s AWS re:Invent conference was the addition of the Amazon EKS Pod Identities feature. This new addition helps simplify the complexities of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) within Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). EKS Pod Identities simplify IAM credential management in EKS clusters, addressing a problematic area over the past few years as Microservice adoption has risen across the industry.