April Customer Newsletter
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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The Place Where Modern Operations & Technology Come Together
The latest News and Information on Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and related technologies.
IAM Access in Kubernetes: How to Install Kube2iam
IAM is the de-facto method of authorization in AWS. Most Kubernetes “Quick Start” guides for AWS do not adequately cover how to manage IAM access in your pods. This blog series will first go over the security issues specific to AWS IAM on Kubernetes, then compare solutions, and then we will end with a detailed walkthrough for setting up your cluster with one of those solutions.
OpenMetrics: Is Prometheus unbound?
Historically, the monitoring landscape has been a mess; today, it still is. It’s even worse given how software architectures have changed with all of the cloud-native principles. As “techies”, we need to do something about this. Otherwise, we’ll remain chained up by an inability to properly observe our own platforms and applications.
Kubernetes Master Class: Understanding and Implementing Service Mesh
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.
How to Deploy OKD Minishift onto a Publicly-Hosted VM
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.
Why use Typha in your Calico Kubernetes Deployments?
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.
Virtual Meetup: Running Elasticsearch on Kubernetes
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.
Debugging APM Issues in Kubernetes
Using Python to debug networking issues in Kubernetes Pods when attempting to communicate with the Datadog Agent.
Rancher 2.4 Keeps Your Innovation Engine Running with Zero Downtime Upgrades
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.
Feedback: 6 benefits of Kotlin for building server-side applications
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.