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Kubernetes Logging with Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana

Kubernetes, a Greek word meaning pilot, has found its way into the center stage of modern software engineering. Its in-built observability, monitoring, metrics, and self-healing make it an outstanding toolset out of the box, but its core offering has a glaring problem. The Kubernetes logging challenge is its ephemeral resources disappearing into the ether, and without some 2005-style SSHing into the correct server to find the rolled over log files, you’ll never see the log data again.

Multi-cluster management and observability with KubeSphere

Join us as we learn about KubeSphere - a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management. Feynman Zhou (Dev Advocate) from the KubeSphere team will walk us through the rich observability features of KubeSphere and how it integrates your favourite tools for multi-dimensional monitoring metrics, multi-tenant log query and collection, alerting, events, audit logs and notification.

Strengthen Your Developer Experience and Deployment Velocity with OKE and Shipa Cloud

For an application developer, there is certainly a long road between an idea/feature and getting deployed into production with Kubernetes. From a development perspective, having a low barrier of entry and the ability to iterate is key. From a platform engineering/DevOps perspective, creating gains in engineering efficiency all while creating and enforcing policies that do not stifle innovation is key.

Prometheus 2.35 - What's new?

Prometheus 2.35 was released last month, focusing on a better integration with cloud providers. It also improved the service discovery, performance, and resources usage. One key change was the migration to Go v1.18. It has brought some changes in the support for TLS 1.0, 1.1, and certificates signed with the SHA1 hash function. Welcome to this first edition of What’s new in Prometheus. We love Prometheus, the de-facto open source standard monitoring tool!

Should Enterprises Migrate or Modernize their Heritage Applications?

Enterprises lately are understanding the need to move their business applications to cloud. Well, one of the major contributing reasons for this move is the rising OpEx and the heavy debt of managing applications in their own environment. Cloud providers are waiting for such opportunities where enterprises are planning to migrate to cloud, the question is will it help or not?

Kubernetes throttling? It doesn't have to suck!

Kubernetes has a bad habit of throttling CPU resources—with the result that you can suffer severely degraded performance or find yourself paying a fortune for extra, unnecessary infrastructure. Watch this video to learn how K8s clusters protect themselves from what they see as heavy CPU usage, and how you can monitor and troubleshoot the problem. We demonstrate how you can:– Use Netdata to reduce API response times by a factor of 7– Expect to reduce infrastructure resource requirements by 60-75%

Canonical Kubernetes 1.24 is now generally available

We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance and enterprise support for Kubernetes on Ubuntu. This blog is a quick overview of the latest development highlights that are made available in Canonical Kubernetes 1.24 as well as a look at our favourite upstream enhancements.

Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy

Things would be much simpler if we based all we built on Kubernetes on a single tenant type of architecture, meaning a single application running on the entire Kubernetes cluster with a single team who could access it. As teams scale Kubernetes adoption within their organizations, they see a different scenario instead, one with multi-tenant deployments performed by multiple teams and, most probably, across multiple clusters.