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How Bitnami Uses VMware Image Builder to Deploy 60k Apps Per Month and How You Can Do the Same

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build, deploy, and verify 2,000 applications every single day? In this blog post, we will delve into this specific challenge and take a look at how VMware’s Bitnami can dramatically boost productivity by using VMware Image Builder for automating content production. But let’s start from the beginning, and explore what it takes to build and ship software to users.

Best SRE Practices to Help Developers Troubleshoot Kubernetes

With the adoption of Kubernetes rapidly accelerating, many companies struggle with having the right skills within development teams to troubleshoot incidents quickly. Remediation of issues is of the greatest importance to avoid customer disruption. This webinar will introduce several best practices where SREs can take a leadership role, such as: Watch this webinar on-demand to learn how the SRE role can enable development teams to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues quickly and effectively.

CloudHedge is Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Native Computing

Iselin, New Jersey – 19th January 2023 – CloudHedge Technologies, an industry pioneer with its end-to-end Continuous Application Modernization platform, OmniDeq™, has been named Cool Vendor in Cloud-Native Computing by Gartner. The report acknowledges CloudHedge’s ability to securely deliver agile digital transformation and modernization journeys for large-scale enterprises, enhancing their efficiency.

Guided Kubernetes Troubleshooting: How to Reduce Toil for Dev Teams

This blog post is a how-to guide for Kubernetes troubleshooting. Our vision is that any engineer can keep Kubernetes-based applications up and running smoothly, regardless of their level of Kubernetes expertise and their knowledge of the services in the environment. Right out of the box, StackState aims to monitor, alert and then guide an engineer directly to the problem, helping them remediate the issue quickly.

Heroku Enterprise vs. AWS: What to choose as a business?

When it comes to cloud infrastructure, there are countless options available. From the easy-to-use and scalable Heroku Enterprise to the powerful and versatile AWS, it can be difficult to know which platform is the best fit for your business. However, more and more companies are finding that Heroku Enterprise is not the best choice for their needs and are switching to AWS.

How to monitor Kubernetes clusters with the Prometheus Operator

Kubernetes has become the preferred tool for DevOps engineers to deploy and manage containerized applications on one or multiple servers. These compute nodes are also known as clusters, and their performance is crucial to the success of an application. If a Kubernetes cluster isn’t performing optimally, the application’s availability and performance will suffer, leading to unhappy users and even revenue loss.

Boosting Developer Welfare: The Power of Community

Since the onset of the pandemic and the changes in working patterns that resulted from it, employee welfare has been boosted to the top of the agenda, with this new mindset seeming to be lasting. According to the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 75% of employees believe senior leaders prioritize well-being as part of business operations.

Containerization vs. Virtualization : understand the differences

Over the last couple of decades, a lot has changed in terms of how companies are running their infrastructure. The days of dedicated physical servers are long gone, and there are a variety of options for making the most out of your hosts, regardless of whether you’re running them on-prem or in the cloud. Virtualization paved the way for scalability, standardization and cost optimisation. Containerization brought new efficiencies.

Efficiently Upgrading Infrastructure with Qovery: Syment's Success Story

Join us as we take a deep dive into the tech journey of Syment, a leading SAAS platform for property management in France. Led by new CTO Florent Blaison, with a wealth of experience in high-traffic platforms and scalability, Syment set out to overcome the limitations of their previous infrastructure. Discover how they transitioned from a mix of manual deployment and AWS's EC2 to the flexibility and scalability of Kubernetes with Qovery.

Challenges and Solutions with Cloud Native Persistent Storage

Persistent storage is essential for any account-driven website. However, in Kubernetes, most resources are ephemeral and unsuitable for keeping data long-term. Regular storage is tied to the container and has a finite life span. Persistent storage has to be separately provisioned and managed. Making permanent storage work with temporary resources brings challenges that you need to solve if you want to get the most out of your Kubernetes deployments.