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ECS Fargate threat modeling

AWS Fargate is a technology that you can use with Amazon ECS to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, or scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers. This removes the need to choose server types, decide when to scale your clusters, or optimize cluster packing. In short, users offload the virtual machines management to AWS while focusing on task management.

Kubernetes Master Class - Thanos and Istio

Rancher simplifies the deployment and management of monitoring (Prometheus) and observability (Istio) on a cluster to cluster basis. Each of these tools have extensions that allow for global view and global access. With the recent introduction of Fleet, Rancher 2.5 has reduced the barrier to entry for these configurations, making them available to organizations running at any scale.

Painless Kubernetes monitoring and alerting

Kubernetes is hard, but lets make monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes simple! At iLert we are creating architectures composed of microservices and serverless functions that scale massively and seamlessly to guarantee our customers uninterrupted access to our services. As many others in the industry we are relying on Kubernetes when it comes to the orchestration of our services.

Kubernetes Master Class: Declarative Security with Rancher, KubeLinter, and StackRox

As companies adopt containers and Kubernetes to accelerate application development, they’re wrestling with securing this new attack surface. Fortunately, the declarative, immutable nature of Kubernetes environments provides inherent security opportunities, and Kubernetes itself offers a broad set of native controls. However, these protections are not enabled by default, and many organizations are learning both the infrastructure aspects and the security aspects of Kubernetes in parallel.

Running commands securely in containers with Amazon ECS Exec and Sysdig

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon ECS Exec, a powerful feature to allow developers to run commands inside their ECS containers. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service by Amazon Web Services. ECS allows you to organize and operate container resources on the AWS cloud, and allows you to mix Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate workloads for high scalability.

Deploying applications to Kubernetes from your CI pipeline with Shipa and CircleCI

Kubernetes can bring a wide collection of advantages to a development organization, but efficiently deploying applications to Kubernetes is something many organizations are still working to perfect. Properly using Kubernetes can significantly improve productivity, empower you to better utilize your cloud spend, and improve application stability and reliability. On the flip side, if you are not properly leveraging Kubernetes, your would-be benefits become drawbacks.

The Future of Qovery - Week #2

During the next nine weeks, our team will work to improve the overall experience of Qovery. We gathered all your feedback (thank you to our wonderful community 🙏), and we decided to make significant changes to make Qovery a better place to deploy and manage your apps. This series will reveal all the changes and features you will get in the next major release of Qovery. Let's go!

Kubernetes Master Class - Addressing the Amount of Pull Requests in Rancher

In this master class Support Engineer Matthew Mattox will address the new Docker Hub limits and how to reduce the number of pull requests made against Docker Hub. We will go over different options including building a full registry mirror, and using the standard registry, including the required maintenance tasks, to use a pull-through-cache registry. We will also cover some Enterprise solutions (e.g. JFrog) along with how to reduce the number of pulls while using Docker Hub.

High Availability and etcd management in K3s Kubernetes - Darren Shepherd

Darren Shepherd, K3s creator, talks through the mechanics of embedded etcd in K3s and how it allows for highly-available cluster setups. Taken from from his talk "K3s Internals: The Crazy Things We Do To Make k8s Simple". Get free credit to try the world’s first K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.