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The latest News and Information on Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and related technologies.

Intelligent Instance Selection for Your Kubernetes Workloads

Picking the right AWS instance is challenging because you have to match the ever-changing resource usage patterns of your apps with the 500+ AWS instance types, and the result is over-provisioning and waste. Nearly one-third of businesses exceed their cloud budgets by as much as 40%, in part due to poorly sized instances.

AppDynamics Cloud: Kubernetes Overview

Kubernetes® monitoring with AppDynamics Cloud provides you with the visibility you need into your Kubernetes infrastructure. It provides you the capability to monitor metrics on clusters, namespaces, workloads, pods and ingress controllers. You also have the capability to cross validate metrics from your servers and network interfaces as well as cloud providers. Monitor your pod resources for performance issues or identify needs to scale. Kubernetes, as well as App Service Monitoring, is supported by using an OpenTelemetry™ Operator.

EvaluScale Finds D2iQ a Container Management Platform Leader

D2iQ continues to win not only customers in the public and private sectors, but also recognition from industry analysts who are affirming the unique value offered by the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP). Most recently, the 2022 EvaluScale Insights report named D2iQ a Leader in Container Management Platforms for the IT enterprise in two major categories, Container-Forward and Fast-Track Win.

Why You Should Choose Argo CD for GitOps

Many organizations that have already implemented a DevOps culture are looking to further accelerate their development process by adopting GitOps practices in their environments. There is a lot to take into consideration when planning out your GitOps strategy, and you can read more about it at this Codefresh learning center about adopting GitOps.

Comparing Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions: Harvester and OpenStack

The effectiveness of good resource management in a secure and agile way is a challenge today. There are several solutions like Openstack and Harvester, which handles your hardware infrastructure as on-premise cloud infrastructure. This allows the management of storage, compute, and networking resources to be more flexible than deploying applications on single hardware only. Both OpenStack and Harvester have their own use cases.

The updated Docker integration in Grafana Cloud now supports logs and metrics

More than 17 million developers use Docker to build, ship, and run applications separate from their infrastructure in order to deliver software faster and more efficiently. With the rising popularity of containerized applications, however, it has become increasingly more complex and difficult to observe and monitor applications running across multiple containers.

Cycle Podcast | EP 15 | Darren Shepherd | The State of Running Containers in the Wild

In this episode, Jake Warner chats with Darren Shepherd, co-founder of Rancher Labs, and more recently, Acorn.io. Together, Darren and Jake, discuss the current ecosystem around container orchestration and dive into some of the flaws that exist with how applications are packaged and deployed today. Darren has spent his career writing orchestration systems, first in the IaaS space and then Docker and Kubernetes. He is best known for co-founding Rancher Labs and creating such projects as Rancher, Longhorn, k3s, and many others.