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Tips for Monitoring Kubernetes Applications

Monitoring is the most important aspect of infrastructure operations. Effective monitoring strategies help in optimizing infrastructure usage, better planning, and easy incident resolution. While monitoring preceded DevOps, DevOps has further transformed the software development process to such an extent that monitoring has to evolve as well.

Launching JFrog ChartCenter: The Helm Chart Central Repository for the Community

The number of publicly available Helm charts is continuously growing and while this is great for the community, it can be challenging to navigate the vast sea of Helm charts and Helm chart repositories. Like a ship’s captain, you need more than just a list of where you can go, but the details to ensure those under your charge arrive certainly and safely. Not just what can be seen on the surface, but what lies underneath, and the hazards that await.

Data science workflows on Kubernetes with Kubeflow pipelines: Part 1

Kubeflow Pipelines are a great way to build portable, scalable machine learning workflows. It is one part of a larger Kubeflow ecosystem that aims to reduce the complexity and time involved with training and deploying machine learning models at scale. In this blog series, we demystify Kubeflow pipelines and showcase this method to produce reusable and reproducible data science.

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Applying Observability - In Conversation with Nitzan Shapira of Epsagon

Today we hear from Nitzan Shapira, Epsagon CEO, about the latest exciting Epsagon product announcements, how Applied Observability is needed to make sense of ever more complex applications and environments, and how the role of Ops and Monitoring is evolving as part of the new "Cloud 2.0".

Attack of the mutant tags!Or why tag mutability is a real security threat

Tag mutability can introduce multiple functional and security issues. In container land, tags are a volatile reference to a concrete image version in a specific point in time. Tags can change unexpectedly, and at any moment. In this article, we’ll learn how we can prevent them.

Simplify Installation and Maintenance with the Project Calico Operator

Within the Kubernetes ecosystem, the Operator Pattern aims to encode the tasks that human operators perform with installing, maintaining, and upgrading infrastructure. It goes beyond manifests and Helm charts to add additional logic to manage critical services. Starting with the 3.15 release, Project Calico will provide an operator for managing Calico installations on Kubernetes clusters.

Dispatch evolves as the only Kubernetes native, CI/CD platform leveraging Tekton, ArgoCD and more

Responsibilities are shifting between software developers and operators due to the increasing adoption of agile development practices, DevOps, and GitOps. This makes it challenging for developers and operators to effectively collaborate in order to increase developer agility and productivity. D2iQ’s Dispatch is built on a cloud native foundation, leveraging Tekton and Argo CD to simplify running CI/CD on Kubernetes with a simplified user experience.

Kubernetes observability tutorial: Log monitoring and analysis

Kubernetes has emerged the de facto container orchestration technology, and an integral technology in the cloud native movement. Cloud native brings speed, elasticity, and agility to software development, but also increases the complexity — with hundreds of microservices on thousands (or millions) of containers, running in ephemeral and disposable pods. Monitoring such a complex, distributed, transient system is challenging, and at the same time very critical.

Kubernetes observability tutorial: K8s cluster setup and demo app deployment

The easiest way to get the Elastic Stack up and running for this tutorial, is to spin up a 14-day free trial of our Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud. A few clicks (no credit cards) and you’ll have your cluster up and running. Or if you prefer, download the Elastic Stack and install locally. All of the instructions in this tutorial can be easily amended to work with a standalone Elasticsearch cluster on your own hardware.