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7 Things to Consider To Build Scalable Web Applications

Jan 8, 2022 By Morgan Perry In Qovery
Suppose you've built a web application and started getting a few customers. After some feedback and iterations, you are ready with a product that people want. From now, your application is drawing attention to more and more users, with more and more requests per minute (RPM). Suddenly, a wave of new people use your app, and at one point, they can't use it anymore. While testing your app, you realize that it's working correctly. So what happened? You are simply facing a scalability problem.
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Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs GKE

Jan 7, 2022 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery
Kubernetes is changing the tech space as it becomes increasingly prominent across various industries and environments. Kubernetes can now be found in on-premise data centers, cloud environments, edge solutions, and even space. As a container orchestration system, Kubernetes automatically manages the availability and scalability of your containerized applications. Its architecture consists of various planes that make up what is known as a cluster.
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Path To Rancher Desktop 1.0.0

Jan 6, 2022 By Matt Farina In Rancher

Rancher Desktop has been in development for just over a year with the open question: when do we have a 1.0.0 stable release? Along the way the scope has expanded, it was ported to run in more places and the development team has grown. All of this happened as we worked out if Rancher Desktop would be useful for people, what features people want to use and what are good ways to build it. We are finally ready to answer that 1.0.0 question.

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Extending Panorama's firewall address groups into your Kubernetes cluster using Calico NetworkSets

Jan 5, 2022 By Joseph Yostos In Tigera

When deploying cloud-native applications to a hybrid and multi-cloud environment that is protected by traditional perimeter-based firewalls, such as Palo Alto Networks (PAN) Panorama, you need to work within the confines of your existing IT security architecture. For applications that communicate with external resources outside the Kubernetes cluster, a traditional firewall is typically going to be part of that communication.

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Learning the tricks of Grafana Loki for distributed logging at scale in a Kubernetes environment

Jan 5, 2022 By Grafana In Grafana
Logging can provide immense detail when used well, or it can become a firehose and take hours to trawl through. The team supporting the Kubernetes platform at Civo needed a solution that was simple and performant and could be queried in ways to help and not hinder them In this talk, Civo SRE Anaïs Urlichs and Principal Engineer Alex Jones will illustrate how Loki was chosen and brought into the organization to empower engineers. Integrating with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, Loki has allowed engineers to filter for precise information that helps them debug quicker.
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Five tricks for logging at scale in a Kubernetes environment with Grafana Loki

Jan 4, 2022 By Lauren Johnson In Grafana

Legacy logging solutions simply couldn’t keep up with the complex, hyperconverged regional infrastructure at Civo, a Kubernetes service provider that enables users to launch k8s clusters within 90 seconds. “With our infrastructure and application deployment getting more complex and more distributed, we needed our logging solution and our entire observability stack to scale up with our needs,” said Anaïs Urlichs, Site Reliability Engineer at Civo.

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Fairwinds: Kubernetes Guardrails and Governance to Enable Developers and Reduce Risk

Jan 4, 2022 By PagerDuty In PagerDuty
Customers of both PagerDuty and Fairwinds Insights can generate and customize PagerDuty incidents for critical issues in their Kubernetes clusters. This capability includes over 100 checks that have been built-in to Fairwinds Insights for things like container vulnerabilities, insecure workload configurations, runtime security events, and resource usage—as well as custom user-defined policies for compliance and internal requirements.
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Pulling All Your Kubernetes Cluster Images from a Private Artifactory Registry

Jan 3, 2022 By Yaniv Rozenboim, Uri Peled, Dana Rozen In JFrog
There are many benefits to working with JFrog Artifactory as your private Docker registry, allowing you to store, share and deploy your binary artifacts in a single source of truth. This blog post will focus on using Artifactory in Kubernetes. Specifically, we’ll walk through the steps for configuring Kubernetes to pull images from Artifactory and most importantly – scale up! It will also describe how you can enable cluster-wide authenticated access to Artifactory behind the scenes.
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