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Solving Microservices Connectivity Issues with Network Logs

The network is foundational to distributed application environments. A distributed application has multiple microservices, each running in a set of pods often located on different nodes. Problem areas in a distributed application can be in network layer connectivity (think network flow logs), or application resources unavailability (think metrics), or component unavailability (think tracing).

Troubleshooting microservices on K8S

What’s the best way to troubleshoot an application made up of multiple microservices, distributed across multiple nodes and multiple pods? In this training session we will cover a variety of Kubernetes troubleshooting tips and tricks, and you’ll learn how Calico Enterprise can help provide valuable visibility and reduce troubleshooting time in complex networks of microservices.

Extending Your Fortinet FortiManager to Kubernetes

Tigera and Fortinet have joined forces to solve this operational challenge. With the combination of FortiManager and Calico Enterprise, you gain access control and full visibility into the container environment along with centralized management. In this webinar, you will learn how Calico Enterprise and FortiManager enable you to.

Making developer life easy using the Civo Kubernetes marketplace - Saiyam Pathak

Learn how the Civo Kubernetes application marketplace makes developer life easier, with a wide range of easy to install cloud native applications. Saiyam walks you through how to setup Rancher on a Civo k3s powered Kubernetes cluster. Plus a look at how the marketplace works and the components that make up a typical app install.

K3s + Sysdig: Deploying and securing your cluster... in less than 8 minutes!

As Kubernetes is eating the world, discover an alternative certified Kubernetes offering called K3s, made by the wizards at Rancher. K3s is gaining a lot of interest in the community for its easy deployment, low footprint binary, and its ability to be used for specific use cases that the full Kubernetes may be too advanced for. K3s is a fully CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) certified Kubernetes offering.

Webinar: Exploring Kubernetes 1.18 with Alex Ellis

With the release of Kubernetes 1.18, we saw 40 features and updates added. In a recent blog post we collated these together in one place so that you can learn what may affect your clusters and prepare for change. Now, we go one step further, inviting Alex Ellis, CNCF Ambassador and Open Source project founder to share his take on the changes. We saw Alex’s in-depth article on the recent deprecations around “kubectl run” and asked him to pick four of his highlights to share with examples.

Densify Achieves Red Hat Operator Certification

Toronto, Ontario – October 10, 2020 – Densify, a leader in cloud and container cost management, today announced that its product has been Red Hat Operator Certified and can be purchased in the Red Hat Marketplace. The Marketplace is a one-stop shop to find, try, buy, and manage enterprise applications across an organization’s hybrid IT infrastructure.

How to estimate your AWS costs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty much ubiquitous these days, with everyone from tiny startups to large enterprises using the cloud service to run their apps, websites, and processes. For small businesses, being able to predict your budgets is paramount. Unfortunately, AWS costs can be very difficult to forecast. In this blog, we’ll go over the pros and cons of the tools available to help you estimate your AWS costs.