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A Simple Guide to Taming the Beast That Is Kubernetes

Containers are amazing. But when you start to orchestrate them in a complex environment, they can become quite the beast. Kubernetes is one of the best tools to tame that beast, but few resources exist to help you manage your big data workloads on Kubernetes. If you want to learn how you can optimize your big data workloads on Kubernetes, this is for you.

[Webinar] 5 Things to Consider When Migrating Databases to Kubernetes with Komodor & Ondat

Kubernetes is eating the world...at least the world of modern software engineering. Besides their applications, most businesses consider their data as the holy grail. It is key to the value they deliver. As they progress through application modernization, Kubernetes is the natural foundation to support their effort. But where should the data go? Is Kubernetes safe enough to take care of it? How to prepare for DB related incidents in an everchanging environment?

Sysdig & SUSE: Security & Visibility for SUSE Rancher

Securing a cloud-native environment, such as SUSE Rancher, requires unique considerations. New abstractions like containers, plus the dynamic nature of a Kubernetes orchestrated environment can hamper visibility, especially for legacy tools that aren’t designed for containers and cloud. To help, Sysdig and SUSE have launched a SUSE One Partner Solution Stack designed to not only showcase our joint solution, but also to provide easy ways for you to get started.

Kubernetes and the Enterprise

As more organizations transition to cloud-native applications in the enterprise, Kubernetes and its APIs are laying the foundation for a next era of distributed computing. But despite its growing adoption in the enterprise, Kubernetes remains complex to implement and manage effectively. This topic spotlight highlights the most common challenges of Kubernetes in the enterprise and offers up some recommendations on how to make Kubernetes adoption smooth and effective to drive productivity and business value.

Why and how to monitor AWS EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, or EKS, is a managed Kubernetes service. That means that Amazon Web Services (AWS) handles some of the deployment and management tasks for users. But the fact that EKS is a managed service doesn’t mean that AWS manages all administrative tasks. One key management task that isn’t fully covered as part of EKS is monitoring.