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Experiment with Calico BGP in the Comfort of Your Own Laptop!

Yes, you read that right – in the comfort of your own laptop, as in, the entire environment running inside your laptop! Why? Well, read on. It’s a bit of a long one, but there is a lot of my learning that I would like to share. I often find that Calico Open Source users ask me about BGP, and whether they need to use it, with a little trepidation. BGP carries an air of mystique for many IT engineers, for two reasons.

Stop Using Branches for Deploying to Different GitOps Environments

In our big guide for GitOps problems, we briefly explained (see points 3 and 4) how the current crop of GitOps tools don’t really cover the case of promotion between different environments or how even to model multi-cluster setups. The question of “How do I promote a release to the next environment?” is becoming increasingly popular among organizations that want to adopt GitOps.

Our $350M funding round will accelerate our cloud and container security momentum into global scale

I am excited to announce today that we have raised an additional $350M at a valuation of $2.5B, more than doubling our valuation and bringing our cumulative funding since inception to ~$750M. This funding reflects investor conviction in our ability to be the dominant cloud and container security platform, and brings us closer to our vision of helping every organization to confidently run modern, cloud-native applications.

Continuous Innovation With D2iQ Kubernetes Platform 2.1

Here at D2iQ, we spend a lot of time listening to our customers, and we welcome any feedback that can make it easier for organizations to get into production at scale with Kubernetes. Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) version 2.1, including D2iQ Konvoy 2.1 and Kommander 2.1.

Deploying Your App Using Shipa and Azure Pipelines

In this article, you will learn a bit about how you can deploy an app in IaC way to Kubernetes using Shipa and Azure Pipelines. Shipa is a unique product that solves one of the main issues that developers face while developing Cloud Native applications on Kubernetes. The underlying issue of learning Kubernetes in a faster phase is a difficult task for most of the new developers, that is where Shipa comes to the rescue.

FinOps Tools: Supercharge Your Investment with Optimization

Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.

2021 Pepperdata Survey: The Reality of Kubernetes in Action

More companies than ever before are migrating to Kubernetes and seeing the results of Kubernetes in action. Kubernetes (K8s) is a key platform for big data users, and as such, we wanted to dive deeper and discover some new truths about current Kubernetes challenges and what the solutions might be. We surveyed 600 IT and big data professionals from various industries to determine which big data applications enterprises are moving or intending to move to Kubernetes.