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Kubernetes Master Class: Understanding and Implementing Service Mesh

Apr 7, 2020 By Rancher In Rancher

Service mesh has developed a huge amount of excitement in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Istio is a service mesh tool built right into Rancher. Service mesh promises to add fault tolerance, canary rollouts, A/B testing, monitoring and metrics, tracing and observability, and authentication and authorization, eliminating the need for developers to instrument or write specific code to enable these capabilities. The goal is to let developers focus on their business logic and leave the rest to Kubernetes and Istio. But many users find it challenging to install, configure, monitor and manage their service mesh solution.

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How to Deploy OKD Minishift onto a Publicly-Hosted VM

Apr 7, 2020 By Dinesh Raveendran In Densify

If you are familiar with minikube, a lightweight implementation of the Kubernetes ecosystem, then you may have also heard of Minishift. Designed as a development platform and delivered through a utility, this is the Red Hat OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution—formerly called OpenShift Origin) all-in-one implementation of Red Hat OpenShift. Being highly versatile, it can be deployed on varying platforms.

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Why use Typha in your Calico Kubernetes Deployments?

Apr 7, 2020 By Bikram Gupta In Tigera

Calico is an open source networking and network security solution for containers, virtual machines, and native host-based workloads. Calico supports a broad range of platforms including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker EE, OpenStack, and bare metal. In this blog, we will focus on Kubernetes pod networking and network security using Calico. Calico uses etcd as the back-end datastore. When you run Calico on Kubernetes, you can use the same etcd datastore through the Kubernetes API server.

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April Customer Newsletter

Apr 7, 2020 By Pervez Sikora In Tigera

Welcome to the April 2020 edition of the Tigera Calicommunication newsletter! In the March edition, we discussed context-aware flow logs. This edition covers the next component of logging, the audit logs.

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Virtual Meetup: Running Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

Apr 6, 2020 By Elastic In Elastic

Elasticsearch is the world's most popular open source search engine. Kubernetes (k8s) is the popular container orchestration engine giving developers the flexibility to run all sorts of workloads easily. Elastic launched Elasticsearch k8s operator sometime ago. With this, one can not only run Elasticsearch on k8s but also can launch other Elastic Stack projects like APM Server, help run rolling upgrades, manage data etc. This talk is a demo of all latest features.

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Debugging APM Issues in Kubernetes

Apr 6, 2020 By Datadog In Datadog

Using Python to debug networking issues in Kubernetes Pods when attempting to communicate with the Datadog Agent.

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Rancher 2.4 Keeps Your Innovation Engine Running with Zero Downtime Upgrades

Apr 6, 2020 By Bill Maxwell In Rancher

Delivering rapid innovation to your users is critical in the fast-moving world of technology. Kubernetes is an amazing engine to drive that innovation in the cloud, on-premise and at the edge. All that said, Kubernetes and the entire ecosystem itself changes quickly. Keeping Kubernetes up to date for security and new functionality is critical to any deployment.

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Feedback: 6 benefits of Kotlin for building server-side applications

Apr 4, 2020 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery

Kotlin is a programming language over the JVM (like Java). It is well known for being the official programming language for Android. But Kotlin is a reliable and powerful programming language that can also be used for server-side applications. I have been using Kotlin for 4 years to develop server-side applications. Here are the 6 reasons why it is a great choice for building your next backend: Java is one of the vastest ecosystems in the programming world.

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Sysdig Monitor Overview

Apr 3, 2020 By Sysdig In Sysdig

Organizations are moving to the cloud and DevOps to ship applications faster. However, the dynamic nature of these environments can lead to gaps in visibility. Without the proper insight, how can you address the issues that impact the availability and performance of your applications? Sysdig Monitor provides cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility. You can get deep visibility into rapidly-changing container-environments including infrastructure, services and applications.

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Announcing Hosted Rancher with Rancher 2.4

Apr 2, 2020 By David Nolan In Rancher

We’ve heard from many of our customers and prospects that they love Rancher but just don’t have the staff and expertise to operate the platform. Figuring out the compute, storage and networking architecture can be a challenge. Performing upgrades, backups and troubleshooting can also be time consuming. Monitoring the environment and knowing when to scale up or down, horizontally or vertically, is yet another thing to worry about.

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