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When organizations think about the relationship between Kubernetes and cloud costs, they often focus on Kubernetes’ auto-scaling capabilities and what this means for optimizing compute resources. Kubernetes does allow organizations to provision compute resources more thinly, because the platform allows them to scale up automatically if there’s a demand spike in the middle of the night.

At Cloudsmith, we want to be your “one central source of truth” for your dependencies and package management needs. And in keeping with this ideal, we are extremely pleased to announce that we have added fully configurable transparent Proxying and Caching support for Debian packages.

Node.js application developers, in the ever-evolving business landscape, enjoy tangible advantages while incorporating microservices in Node.js apps development. The microservice architecture, or microservices, is a distinct method of software systems development, which attempts to create modules that are single-function, with well-defined operations and interfaces.

DevOpsDays Chicago 2020 was held on September 1, online. It was the first time the conference was held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. I was excited to attend for a couple of reasons. First, DevOpsDays Chicago is one of the better known and respected DevOpsDays held in the US. I’d never been able to attend it before, so it was great to get the opportunity. Also, I’d been missing the DevOpsDays community.

“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is a phrase that you hear more and more these days as Kubernetes becomes ever more popular as a container orchestration solution. However, “Kubernetes vs. Docker” is also a somewhat misleading phrase. When you break it down, these words don’t mean what many people intend them to mean, because Docker and Kubernetes aren’t direct competitors.

ROS, the Robot Operating System, is the platform of choice for robot development. However, the breadth and depth of existing documentation can be daunting for the ROS beginner. Where should you start learning about ROS 2 on Ubuntu? All robots based on ROS and ROS 2 are programmed using five simple but core constructs: In this tutorial and associated video we’ll introduce these concepts with simulated robots.

Since the release of Sensu Go, many in our community have told us Sensu is easier and faster to deploy, more portable, and more compatible with containerized and ephemeral environments (as compared to Sensu Core, the original version of Sensu). In a recent webinar, I talked about integrating Sensu Go with your CI/CD pipeline and how to use the sensuctl prune command to keep your Sensu resources in a declarative state, reducing dependence on traditional configuration management tools.

Kubernetes has become the de-facto industry standard for container orchestration. It provides the required abstraction for efficiently managing large-scale containerized applications with declarative configurations, an easy deployment mechanism, and both scaling and self-healing capabilities.

Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft's managed Kubernetes solution, allows you to quickly create a Kubernetes cluster in Microsoft Azure and provides features to help you manage and maintain your Kubernetes cluster in Azure. In this blog post we will go over some of the features of AKS and then walk through creating an AKS cluster.