Sneha Narang, Carol Pereira, and Lauren Britton contributed to this blog post. Kubernetes adoption is on the rise because it helps organizations improve software development with increased flexibility and efficiency while controlling cloud costs. In fact, our State of Kubernetes 2022 report shows 62 percent of respondents claiming that Kubernetes increases the flexibility of applications and 54 percent agreeing it offers better developer efficiency.

In a relatively short period of time, from 1962 to 1969, The Beatles produced a volume of work that made them the most successful recording artists of all time as measured by their volume of record sales, number-one hits, and duration of hits on the charts.

Our CTO Andy Jeffries explains how k3s by Rancher Labs differs from regular Kubernetes (k8s). Since we launched the world’s first k3s powered, managed Kubernetes service – we’ve had a lot of questions from our members on what the differences are between k3s and k8s (full blown Kubernetes), aside from the choice from each on how to capitalise a "K" (or not).

Rajeev Kumar, Automation Product Leader at Broadcom, explores the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms. He reveals how Automation from Broadcom embraces the concepts of SOAP, driving a modern workload automation strategy.

Maintaining reliable Kubernetes systems is not easy for anyone, especially for team members with less in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes itself and the overall service environment. This blog, part 1 of 3 in the “8 SRE Best Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes” series, outlines the key challenges SREs and developers face when they need to quickly troubleshoot and remediate issues in applications running on Kubernetes.

Google Cloud provides its own set of metrics for monitoring applications, services, and instances. There are a huge number of metrics – more than 1,500 different ones just for GCP monitoring! While this is great, dealing with such a number can also be overwhelming. Filtering, pulling, exploring, and storing the metrics that you really need can be an enormously time-consuming task, and a big challenge.