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A Simple Guide to Taming the Beast That Is Kubernetes

Containers are amazing. But when you start to orchestrate them in a complex environment, they can become quite the beast. Kubernetes is one of the best tools to tame that beast, but few resources exist to help you manage your big data workloads on Kubernetes. If you want to learn how you can optimize your big data workloads on Kubernetes, this is for you.

Terraform and Shipa 101 - Your First Terraform and Shipa Cloud Integration

Leveraging Terraform, which is an infrastructure-as-code platform, is a great match. Using both technologies together is becoming more mature and there have been some great pieces around the art of the possible between the two platforms. Though if you are unfamiliar with both, this guide will get you up and started with both Terraform and Shipa together. In this example will be using Terraform to create all of the necessary Shipa resources to deploy to a Kubernetes cluster.

[Webinar] 5 Things to Consider When Migrating Databases to Kubernetes with Komodor & Ondat

Kubernetes is eating the world...at least the world of modern software engineering. Besides their applications, most businesses consider their data as the holy grail. It is key to the value they deliver. As they progress through application modernization, Kubernetes is the natural foundation to support their effort. But where should the data go? Is Kubernetes safe enough to take care of it? How to prepare for DB related incidents in an everchanging environment?

Why and how to monitor AWS EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, or EKS, is a managed Kubernetes service. That means that Amazon Web Services (AWS) handles some of the deployment and management tasks for users. But the fact that EKS is a managed service doesn’t mean that AWS manages all administrative tasks. One key management task that isn’t fully covered as part of EKS is monitoring.