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AI-Driven DevOps: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Software Delivery

DevOps (development and operation) has dramatically changed processes of management in tech companies. This method or, as they say, religion, introduced new philosophy into development and operations. Earlier, when only the waterfall method was used, all deployments were really painful: if something went wrong you had to look for the reason on every stage, in every team. Every change in development had an impact on operations and vice versa. After the introduction of DevOps method the interaction between development and operations prevented a lot of mistakes and made deployment much easier.

How to fix Kubernetes init container errors

One of the most frustrating moments as a Kubernetes developer is when you go to launch your pod, but it fails to start because of a problem during initialization. Init containers are incredibly useful for setting up a pod before handing it off to the main container, but they introduce an additional point of failure. In this post, we'll take an in-depth look at init containers in Kubernetes: what they are, how they work, how they can fail, and what that means for your Kubernetes deployments.

Canonical Kubernetes 1.29 is now generally available

A new upstream Kubernetes release, 1.29, is generally available, with significant new features and bugfixes. Canonical closely follows upstream development, harmonising our releases to deliver timely and up-to-date enhancements backed by our commitment to security and support – which means that MicroK8s 1.29 is now generally available as well and Charmed Kubernetes 1.29 will join shortly.

The Year of AI: Reflections and Predictions for 2024

Who could have predicted that 2023 would see such a huge leap forward in Artificial Intelligence (AI)? That this was going to be the year industries decided that, this is the decade, we would solve AI. From the earliest research as far back as the 1940s, we’ve all been holding our breath, wondering when AI will live up to the expectations painted by science fiction writers and futurists. With the arrival of ChatGPT from OpenAI, we’ve been catapulted into the next generation.

Accelerate Microservice Debugging with Telepresence with Edidiong Asikpo - Navigate Europe 23

Join Edidiong Asikpo, a seasoned Senior Developer Advocate at Ambassador Labs, as she delves into the intricacies of microservice debugging using Telepresence. Explore the challenges developers face when transitioning from monolithic to microservices architecture and introduces Telepresence as a game-changing tool. Watch as Edidiong demonstrates how Telepresence simplifies the development loop, enhances the debugging process, and facilitates local testing of services.

What you can't do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico): Policies to all namespaces or pods

Continuing from my previous blog on the series, What you can’t do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico), this post will be focusing on use case number five — Default policies which are applied to all namespaces or pods.