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The No. 1 Rule of Disaster Recovery

Let’s imagine you are running a hosting shop with highly visible production applications. Your team has backups, and you have a disaster recovery (DR) policy. You think you are ready to handle any real-world scenario in addition to checking all your compliance boxes. Your third-party backup tools are creating backups, and your implemented solutions have a brochure indicating restore capability.

Deploying Multiple Kubernetes Clusters on Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

How-to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters on multi-cloud infrastructure. Most organizations need a way to deploy K8s to multiple infrastructure providers; on-premise and the cloud, multiple cloud providers, edge location and the cloud, or some combination in between (hybrid cloud). This tutorial covers the deployment of Kubernetes on AWS and Azure from a single centralized control plane. Enterprise grade Kubernetes platform for hybrid cloud.

Kubernetes Deployment on Azure

How-to deploy a kubernetes cluster on Azure. There are several ways to deploy kubernetes on Azure, including Microsoft’s own AKS. This tutorial covers the deployment of kubernetes on Azure using a single command. Fully automated and ready for production applications you will have upstream kubernetes with best of breed open source components needed for Day 2 operations, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and more. Declarative kubernetes, no extra steps, no custom automation.

Upgrading Kubernetes - Advanced Controls

How-to upgrade a kubernetes cluster. There are several ways to upgrade a kubernetes cluster and the upgrade strategy may depend on the type of cluster you are trying to upgrade. This tutorial covers advanced control of a kubernetes cluster upgrade often required for upgrading large shared clusters. This includes upgrading the cluster by node pools or selecting how many concurrent nodes should be done in parallel.

Upgrading Kubernetes - Basic Rolling Upgrade

How-to upgrade a Kubernetes cluster. There are several ways to upgrade a K8s cluster and the upgrade strategy may depend on the type of cluster you are trying to upgrade. This tutorial covers a basic rolling upgrade of a Kubernetes cluster. The upgrade is fully automated and workloads will be migrated during the upgrade process for non-disruption.

Sleuth now tracks Environments with new first-class environment support!

Quick, do you know what code is currently deployed to production? How about staging? How far apart are these environments? Sleuth tracks your deployments, and today, Sleuth is launching first-class environments support. I'm going to show you how it works, steps to take to migrate your existing projects, and where we plan to take it in the future.

The State of Robotics - July 2020

We know a lot of you are on vacation so we’ll keep this month’s State of Robotics edition short and sweet. Looking for an easy way to get familiar with ROS 2? We recently published a few helpers on how to simulate robots with turtlesim to help our readers get a rolling start on ROS2. For something that carries a little more punch, follow our tutorial on simulating a TurtleBot3.

Track deploys by environment with Sleuth's first-class environment support!

Quick, do you know what code is currently deployed to production? How about staging? How far apart are these environments? Sleuth tracks your deployments, and today, Sleuth is launching first-class environments support. I'm going to show you how it works, steps to take to migrate your existing projects, and where we plan to take it in the future.