Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How we went from kops to EKS in production

Amazon’s EKS service (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) allows you to create a Kubernetes control plane in your AWS account without having to configure Kubernetes master nodes, etcd, or the api servers. In this blog post we will cover the motivation for using EKS, the preparation required to create an EKS cluster, how to configure EKS in Terraform, and how to set up kube2iam with EKS.

What are the benefits behind monitoring IT and OT convergent systems in Manufacturing?

Almost every single industry is now facing some form of convergence. Generally, it begins with optimizing a process and then optimizing the enterprise management systems for federating the management of each process. For the services industry, this convergence between systems has primarily been within the bounds of information technology. Manufacturing has an entirely different story to tell.

Better monitoring and logging for Compute Engine VMs

Over the past several months we’ve been focused on improving observability and operations workflows for Compute Engine. Today, we are excited to share the first wave of these enhancements are now available. These include: Significantly improved operating system support for the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents. The ability to rapidly deploy, update, and remove agents to groups of VMs, or all of your VMs, by policy, with as little as a single gcloud command.

Microsoft Azure & JFrog: Accelerating Deployment With Virtual Kubelet And Artifactory

Virtual Kubelet simplifies the management of your Kubernetes cluster by rapidly spinning up pods behind an abstraction that takes care of scaling up and down your cluster. JFrog Artifactory is a universal binary repository that serves as a highly scalable container registry with advanced security scanning of container images. By combining Virtual Kubelet on Azure Container Instances (ACI) for fast orchestration and Artifactory to reliably serve container images, you get a highly scalable and secure platform for application deployment.

The Data Age is Here: Our Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Define It

Brace yourselves – the Data Age isn't coming, it's already here. In this special event, “The Data Age is Here: Our Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Define It,” we hear from Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, Kirk Borne, and our own VP of Industries and Specialization, Mike Saliter, in a conversation moderated by Splunk VP of corporate marketing, Claire Hockin, as they break down key takeaways from our latest global report and share insights on how organizations can prepare for the digital era. #DataAgeIsHere

WEBINAR: Advanced Serverless Debugging through Observability

In this webinar we will be covering the advanced techniques of observability, debugging and operations with large-scale serverless environments. We'll be looking at the best practices for ingesting and navigating logs, metrics and traces to easily understand the state of your application and develop confidence in your operational practices.