Explore how to use OpenID Connect (OIDC) to enable Kubernetes to pull Docker images from Cloudsmith without relying on long-lived credentials. This approach significantly enhances security and simplifies credential management.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are eager to stay ahead of the competition. Many organizations have adopted cloud-native architectures, containers, and Kubernetes to gain a competitive edge and deliver workloads that leverage Generative AI and more. Central to this transformation is a necessity for a strong self-service application platform that meets business needs and fosters innovation.

Learn the basics of Kubernetes microservices, including architecture and deployment tips to improve your cloud-native apps!

As a product manager here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned that sometimes the most powerful features can sneak by unnoticed, buried in those three little dots off to the side of the panel. But what happens when one of those hidden gems suddenly becomes the star of the show? Recently, we released a new Kubernetes Monitoring feature in Grafana Cloud—an alert system you can use to create alerts from panels in the app.

Making infrastructure decisions can feel like a high-stakes puzzle: finding the right balance between technical capabilities, cost efficiency, and ease of management is no small feat. Recently, a company switched from Clever Cloud to Scaleway Kapsule (Kubernetes), with Qovery orchestrating its transition. Here’s what drove this change and how it’s paid off.

Tired of managing your Kubernetes clusters all on your own? Don’t have the time to figure out how to deploy, run, and optimize usage? Azure has just the thing for you: Azure Kubernetes Services. This article will cover everything you need to know about Azure Kubernetes Services, how it works, what the Azure pricing will be, whether you should use it, and, if so, how to save on your cloud cost.

Are you considering migrating to Kubernetes but worried about the potential complexities? Well, you are not alone. Transitioning to Kubernetes brings unparalleled scalability and resilience for containerized applications, but it also introduces technical challenges that can overwhelm unprepared teams. Let's go through proven strategies to make the Kubernetes migration journey smoother, from planning and dependency mapping to using automation tools that reduce errors.

Two of the most popular guides we’ve written are the GitOps promotion guide and the ApplicationSet guide. Used together, they explain an end-to-end solution for organizing your GitOps applications and promoting them between different environments, while keeping things DRY by using application sets. Both of these guides use Kustomize. We offered some hints for Helm users, but this is a dedicated guide for Helm applications.