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Monitoring your EKS cluster with Datadog

In this post, we’ll explore how Datadog’s integrations with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS will let you track the full range of EKS metrics, as well as logs and performance data from your cluster and applications. Datadog gives you comprehensive coverage of your dynamic infrastructure and applications with features like Autodiscovery to track services across containers; sophisticated graphing and alerting options; and full support for AWS services.

Troubleshooting in Kubernetes: kubectl capture plugin

We are really happy to announce that we have released a plugin which allows to take captures using Sysdig in your Kubernetes cluster with just one simple command. And the answer for the next question you are asking yourself, is no. You don’t need to have Sysdig preinstalled in your cluster for this to work! This is our contribution to help you with your Kubernetes troubleshooting efforts.

Native Kubernetes Monitoring, Part 1: Monitoring and Metrics for Users

Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration platform for working with containers. At its core, it gives us the means to do deployments, easy ways to scale, and monitoring. In this article, we will talk about the built-in monitoring capabilities of Kubernetes and include some demos for better understanding.

A Practical Guide to the Journey from Monolith to Microservices

More developers are keen on practices in terms of how they modernize monolith application into microservices easier, quicker, and smoothly. There are many microservices development frameworks such as Spring Boot and Linux container, container orchestration tools make it faster for your Microservices journey.

Docker Performance Improvement: Tips and Tricks

Docker is now everywhere. Over the past few years, a lot of modern-day software has now moved to become packaged in a Docker container, and with good reason. One of the biggest benefits touted about Docker containers is their speed. You don’t get lightning-fast performance out of the box without Docker performance tuning.

Better Observability with New Container Agents

If you liked Sematext Docker Agent you’ll love our new agent for Docker monitoring that provides you with even more insight into your Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm clusters. Because of its power, small footprint, and ease of installation the old Sematext Docker Agent enjoyed high adoption by the Docker DevOps community.

April 2019 Online Meetup: An Introduction to the Features of Rancher 2.2

Your Kubernetes clusters need ongoing attention to stay healthy and perform at their best. Rancher 2.2 monitors, manages, backs up, and restores Kubernetes clusters. It features new tools for controlling applications deployed across multiple clusters, plus a host of new flexibility around ongoing operations. With solutions for edge, multi-tenant, and multi-cloud clusters, Rancher eliminates redundant work, lightens the workload of operations teams, and increases the reliability of Kubernetes clusters and the applications they run.

The Business Case for Container Adoption

Developers often believe that demonstrating the need for an IT-based solution should be very easy. They should be able to point to the business problem that needs a solution, briefly explain what technology should be selected, and the funds, staff, and computer resources will be provided by the organization. Unfortunately, this is seldom the actual process that is followed.

Deploying your Applications in a Repeatable Way on Kubernetes

Helm Charts have proven to be very useful for developers looking to create repeatable deployments of their applications. Rancher, with its built in Helm interface, allows developers to deploy their applications using Helm charts. This training will go over using Rancher's pre-provisioned catalog apps, as well as demonstrate the creation of metadata for custom catalog apps to provide the Rancher questions interface to users who wish to deploy their own Helm Charts.