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Getting up and running with Calico on your on-prem K8s Cluster

If you are deploying Kubernetes on-premises in your datacenter, you won’t want to miss this talk and demo. The first thing you’re thinking about might not be networking, but without some knowledge of the networking decisions you’ll need to make, and what the right option is given your environment, you’re likely to get stuck or make the wrong assumptions that may limit your ability to scale or integrate with the rest of the datacenter network.

Rancher 2.5 Keeps Customers Free from Kubernetes Lock-in

Rancher Labs has launched its much-anticipated Rancher version 2.5 into the cloud-native space, and we at LSD couldn't be more excited. Before highlighting some of the new features, here is some context as to how we think Rancher is innovating. Kubernetes has become one of the most important technologies adopted by companies in their quest to modernize.

How we're using Mattermost Operator in Kubernetes to deploy our own environment

The Mattermost Operator framework manages Kubernetes resource configuration and streamlines lifecycle management, helping teams achieve their desired state without worrying about the steps it takes takes to get there. We use our Mattermost Kubernetes Operator to deploy Mattermost Community in a highly available environment. In this presentation, software design engineer Gabe Jackson shares a case study of Mattermost Kubernetes Operator at Mattermost and how we migrated our own Community server to Kubernetes Operator.

Running Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes from Azure Kubernetes Service

It's safe to say that It's safe to say that Kubernetes is the de facto standard for orchestrating containers and the applications running in them. As the standard, a variety of managed services and orchestration options are available to choose from. In this blog post, we're going to take a look at running the Elastic Stack on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) as the operator.

Take the Guesswork out of a Secure Kubernetes Deployment

As a Senior Solutions Engineer helping customers deploy cloud-native technologies, I have been using Docker and Rancher for more than five years. Heck, I even helped steer Rancher for offline use when it was the 0.19 release. I have loved the product and company for YEARS. We all know how complicated it is to set up Kubernetes, and customers love Rancher because it simplifies that rollout.

Using Mattermost Operator for Kubernetes to deploy our Community server

One of the key benefits of using Kubernetes is that it’s very flexible and fault tolerant. However, that also means that it has quite a lot of complexity to deal with. A well-built operator abstracts that complexity away and helps manage updates and upgrades seamlessly. The Mattermost Kubernetes operator is basically like having a Mattermost Cloud Engineer running inside your Kubernetes cluster managing Mattermost for you.

Installing and Managing Argo CD through Continuous Delivery Pipelines Using Codefresh with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

We are about to install and manage Argo CD through a CD pipeline. “Why would we do that? We can just as well accomplish that through a command like kubectl apply or helm upgrade --install.” I’m glad you asked. The primary objective of Argo CD is to help us apply GitOps processes when deploying applications. It is directing us towards the world in which everything is defined as code, and all code is stored in Git.