Today’s leading companies are one step ahead of their competitors as they adopt new tools and disciplines emerging from the cloud native landscape. That was the case for Ziff Media Group, which is a collection of several media web properties including pcmag.com, mashable.com, deals.com, offers.com, and more.
Spring Cloud Data Flow first emerged in 2015 as an evolution of the innovative Spring XD. Since then, hundreds of organizations such as CoreLogic have adopted this open source technology, which is available on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Generally available today, Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes addresses the needs of streaming and batch processing in the enterprise. This new offering is only available through the VMware Spring Runtime subscription.
Rancher has helped thousands of organizations manage their transitions to containerized applications and Kubernetes. With its innovative distribution and suite of services, Rancher has given IT and DevOps teams the roadmap they needed to drive Kubernetes success. Given the complexity of Kubernetes and the shortage of engineers with Kubernetes-specific skills, Rancher’s offerings meet a critical and growing market need.
A new vulnerability, CVE-2020-8557, has been detected in kubelet. It can be exploited by writing into /etc/hosts to cause a denial of service. The source of the issue is that the /etc/hosts file mounted in a pod by kubelet is not included by the kubelet eviction manager, so it’s not taken into account when calculating ephemeral storage usage by a pod.
Kubernetes has a lot of features and deployment options for running containers. One of these is the StatefulSet. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what a StatefulSet is, what it can be used for, and how to create and update them.
This post is the third in our Kubernetes observability tutorial series, where we explore how you can monitor all aspects of your applications running in Kubernetes, including: We’ll discuss using Elastic Observability to perform application performance monitoring (APM) with the Elastic APM.
When SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source company, announced its acquisition of Rancher Labs in early July 2020, the industry took notice. Clearly, the Kubernetes management industry is very much alive. But, the merger also raised the question of what this means for users? After all, a key value proposition of cloud native technologies, like SUSE, is that they are modular, interoperable, and flexible.
Calico was designed from the ground up with a pluggable dataplane architecture. The Calico 3.13 release introduced an exciting new eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) dataplane targeted at those ready to adopt newer kernel versions and wanting to push the Linux kernel’s latest networking capabilities to the limit.
This article provides an overview of managing and analyzing Docker logs and explores some of the complexities that may arise when looking through the log data. We will go through the default logging approach, as well as look at some more advanced configurations that will make diagnosing issues in your Docker-hosted applications much easier going forward.
