Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Containers

The latest News and Information on Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and related technologies.

What is a Container Image?

What does it mean to build a container image? What are layers in docker images? How do you make sense of all the commands and instructions in a dockerfile? Why is it better to use slim base images vs full linux distros? In this video, we answer these questions, and more! While it's easy to create your container images from a dockerfile, there might be some technicalities hidden behind the tools that you need to understand.

An Overview of Traffic Mirroring Options in Kubernetes

Testing in production carries a lot of risk, like possibly causing downtime for users. However, the advantages of using real user traffic are many, which has led to the popularity of traffic mirroring. Mirroring can be implemented as part of pre-deployment testing, as well as other parts of the developer experience like the development itself. But, how do you get started with it?

Best Practices for Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus

Kubernetes has clearly established itself as one of the most influential technologies in the cloud applications and DevOps space. Its powerful flexibility and scalability have inarguably made it the most popular container orchestration platform in modern software development, helping teams manage hundreds of containers efficiently.

Accelerating cloud-native development brings opportunities and challenges for enterprises

By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30% in 2021. This momentum of these workloads and solutions presents a significant opportunity for companies that can meet the challenges of the burgeoning industry.

Tanzu Application Platform 1.4 Reduces Developer Toil, Enhances Operations and Security Outcomes

VMware has released new capabilities in VMware Tanzu Application Platform that can continue to elevate the developer and IT operations experiences, as well as ease security management. This blog post outlines the new functionality included in Tanzu Application Platform 1.4, which is generally available now.

Superior Cloud Cost Optimization in Kubernetes Through Capacity Optimizer

Kubernetes is fast becoming the world’s most preferred open-source container orchestration tool. Used for building and managing cloud-native microservices-based apps as well as the containerization of existing apps, its adoption is continuously increasing. Already, 61% of enterprises have adopted Kubernetes, and 30% are planning to embrace it within the next 12 months.

How to use Kubernetes events for effective alerting and monitoring

Kubernetes, a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem, is the most prominent and widely used container orchestration systems. It’s used to manage and deploy containers in a wide range of environments, from IoT devices based on Raspberry Pis to enterprise environments consisting of millions of services.

7 Container Orchestration Tools for Managing Microservices Efficiently

When people hear ‘containers,’ they don’t immediately think about an IT solution that helps businesses create and distribute applications seamlessly. However, the container concept has been around for a long time, helping companies in various industries globally. Containers continue to change the landscape of app development and deployment. This guide below will help you understand containerization and the best orchestration tools to manage containers.

Applying Lessons Learned from Baking Pizza to Kubernetes Observability

Baking a delicious pizza in a wood-fired oven requires a combination of skill, experience and the right tools. The same is true for achieving optimal observability in a Kubernetes environment. In this post, we'll explore some of the lessons learned from baking pizza in a wood-fired oven and apply them to the world of Kubernetes observability.

Kubecost Vs. OpenCost: What's The Difference?

Kubernetes (K8s) adoption has exploded over the past few years. But it hasn't been easy to monitor, manage, and optimize K8s costs. To provide greater cost visibility into Kubernetes clusters and environments, Kubecost launched in 2019 while OpenCost debuted in 2022. OpenCost has several founding contributors. But it is Kubecost that developed the cost allocation engine that the OpenCost implementation uses. Kubecost also announced the launch of OpenCost on June 2, 2022.