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How NRP Scales Global Scientific Research with Calico

The National Research Platform (NRP) operates a globally distributed, high-performance computing and networking environment, with an average of 15,000 pods across 450 nodes supporting more than 3,000 scientific project namespaces. With its head node in San Diego, NRP connects research institutions and data centers worldwide via links ranging from 10 to 400 Gbps, serving more than 5,000 users in 70+ locations.

What Are Kubernetes Nodes? Everything You Need To Know

A key advantage of Kubernetes for container management is its high scalability. Kubernetes nodes are directly involved in this, and they can significantly impact your efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and service availability. This guide provides an in-depth look at Kubernetes nodes, including types of nodes and operational best practices.

Designing for Failure: Choosing the Right Level of Redundancy, Resilience, and Control

Outages don't care how many zones you have. Power failures, software updates, and backbone disruptions all have one thing in common: they do not respect architecture diagrams. Redundancy only works if it is designed at the correct layer. Every team believes they are covered, and yet, when something breaks, the failure reveals that what looked like protection was only an illusion.

Enhanced Icinga 2 Container Images

As some of you might have already noticed, we recently gave our official Icinga 2 container image builds a complete overhaul. These new images are currently available only as snapshot builds but will replace the existing stable images with the next Icinga 2 v2.16.0 release. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the key changes and improvements that come with the new images, as well as the reasons behind these changes.

#050 - Data Protection and Kubernetes Resilience with Michael Cade & Julia Furst Morgado (Veeam)

In this episode Itiel hosts Veeam experts Julia and Michael, to share their distinct paths into cloud-native technology. Julia discusses her transition from a background in law and marketing to becoming a CNCF ambassador and AWS container hero. Michael, a veteran who has been with Veeam for over 10 years, details his traditional CIS admin background (virtualization, storage) and the evolution of this role into platform engineering.