Kubernetes has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping the way organizations develop, deploy, and manage applications. Adoption of containers and Kubernetes has ballooned in the past years, as heralded by everyone from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself, to the vendors offering their Kubernetes wares, to the research firms that track trends in enterprise technology adoption.

The tech landscape is a whirlwind of continuous evolution, making the role of a DevOps engineer more crucial than ever. A "pragmatic" DevOps engineer stands out as a beacon of efficiency and practicality in this dynamic environment.

As a developer, when I first stepped into the wonderful world Kubernetes, I was amazed at the endless configuration possibilities it offered for containerized apps. It felt like I was handed the most multifaceted tool for all my deployment needs.

Kentik Kube provides network insight into Kubernetes workloads, revealing K8s traffic routes through an organization’s data centers, clouds, and the internet.

The Rancher by SUSE team has been dedicated to fortifying the Rancher platform to be the most interoperable and adaptable platform for our customers and the wider community over the past year. In late 2022, we introduced the ‘Extensions Catalog.’, and earlier this year at KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam, we revealed our Rancher UI Extensions framework. Continuing this momentum, we are thrilled to announce the release of Rancher 2.8 and Rancher Prime 2.0.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Neon DevDays, where I delved into the seamless integration between Neon and our Qovery Preview Environments (also called Ephemeral Environments). Here is an article sharing some compelling reasons why this partnership is a groundbreaking step forward for our users who rely on Postgres and the record of my presentation.

We are delighted to announce the release of Rancher Desktop 1.11.0! This update comes with new features, Snapshots and the Container Dashboard, along with other important bug fixes.

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It allows you to create and manage clusters of machines, called Kubernetes clusters, to run your applications in a scalable and highly available manner. Kubernetes clusters provide a distributed and scalable platform for running containerized workloads.