With the start of the new year, it is a good time to look at what changes have happened in our industry over the last 12 months. With the help of a few recent industry surveys and some of our own perspective, I’d like to summarize some of the key trends that we are seeing.

This blog describes steps to migrate Rancher 2.1.x from a single node installation to a high availability installation.

I talk a lot about containerd. I write blog posts about it, speak at conferences about it, give introductory presentations internally at IBM about it and tweet (maybe too much) about it. Due to my role at IBM, I’ve helped IBM’s public cloud Kubernetes service, IKS, start a migration to use containerd as the CRI runtime in recent releases and similarly helped IBM Cloud Private (our on-premises cloud offering) offer containerd as a tech preview in the past two releases.

This blog describes how Rancher and its managed kubernetes clusters can be affected by the recent announcement detailing the vulnerabilities of the proxying external IPs and dashboard.

Learn how to create a hybrid Kubernetes registry for any application deployed on any cluster managed by Rancher and JFrog Artifactory.

This tutorial walks through using Rancher to deploy Elasticsearch into a Kubernetes cluster. At the end of this article, you will have a fully functional 2-node Elasticsearch cluster, complete with sample data and examples of successful queries.