In the earlier days of the internet, organizations faced resource allocation challenges when running applications on physical servers. They initially resorted to running individual applications on separate physical servers, which was costly and not scalable. As the internet continued to evolve, organizations sought more efficient ways to manage their applications and workloads.

Incompatible hardware is a common cause of application failures for distributed teams. Most teams depend on containerization tools like Docker to prevent these failures. But is there any way to automate the deployment of Docker images more efficiently and intuitively? In this article, I will show you how simple it is to do this by combining CircleCI and Microsoft Azure to build a CI/CD pipeline for a Dockerized Spring Boot project.

Defining multiple environments in Argo CD and promoting an application between them is one of most popular questions for companies that adopt GitOps for their applications. While we have offered several guidelines in the past for organizing your GitOps environments, today we are taking it further by announcing a complete product that helps you visualize the full lifecycle of an application as it moves through different stages. Meet the new Codefresh GitOps Environment Dashboard!

AWS and Azure are two big names in the cloud world. If you have already invested in Microsoft technologies, you might prefer Azure over AWS. However, it is not as simple as that. Many factors are involved in this decision, including the type of service, pricing model, geographical area, your existing technology, etc. In this article, we will compare all the major cloud service categories of AWS and Azure and will compare both companies in detail.

Containerization has significantly improved the way we deploy and manage applications over the past years. It has enabled agility, scalability, and efficiency in modern software development. However, the dynamic nature of containers requires robust monitoring solutions to ensure optimal performance and reliability. In this article, we will discuss the top 10 container monitoring tools that are essential for anyone navigating the containerized landscape.

In this year’s report, we see how organizations are using containers not just to solve their day-to-day infrastructure needs. Rather, customers are exploring the next technology frontier of containers by building next-generation applications, enhancing developer productivity, and optimizing costs.

For many developers and engineers, Kubernetes is the de facto choice for container orchestration. That’s primarily because of its efficiency in handling and scaling container workloads. However, the complexity of managing nodes in a Kubernetes cluster can cause recurring headaches for even the most experienced and skilled IT teams. This is where `kubectl cordon` comes into play.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 is just around the corner, and the OSS and cloud native community is eagerly anticipating the event, which will take place November 6 - 9 in Chicago.

The journey to selecting a container platform is a fun and exciting time in any organization. Container technology abstracts away so many problems from cloud 1.0 VM based approach, and puts engineering teams back in the distributed drivers seat. As containers continue to mature and adoption becomes ubiquitous, there are many lessons to learn and ideas to consider before inevitably choosing Cycle. Let's take a look at Cycle alongside the other types of container platforms.