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Five Kubernetes Deployment Best Practices (Part 2)

In our previous post , we focused on tips for making the transition and migration to Kubernetes a smoother, and less painful process. In this post, we’d like to now provide some tips from the operational trenches for future-proofing your Kubernetes operation, after making the move. Kubernetes, as a software-driven system, has many benefits for engineers and DevOps teams to take advantage of.

Four Best Practices to Migrate to Kubernetes (Part 1)

Kubernetes has evolved into the leading platform to build your microservices systems. Given its increased maturity over the past few years as well as the robust ecosystem which has been built around its technology, Kubernetes has become more production-ready than ever. Nevertheless, it still has its own unique set of challenges. In particular, it brings a lot of complexity into play with its adoption.

KubeCon North America 2021 roundup

KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2021 was a whirlwind of sessions, talks, panels, bonding, and learning. As it was a hybrid event, Civo was represented both in person at a booth that featured Sophia and David from our North American team, as well as virtually through our online booth and talks. Plus, we made an announcement of the General Availability of Civo Kubernetes at the event!

An Introduction to Mattermost's Product Documentation Tech Stack

As I approach my first anniversary at Mattermost as a Senior Technical Writer, it’s fun to look back on what has been an empowering year of daily technical learning. When I joined Mattermost, I was new to many of the processes and tools used by the team: A year in, I’ve now introduced, led, and supported enhancements across all of these areas, and more! I’d like to introduce you to our product documentation tech stack and share some key learnings we’ve adopted.

Introducing Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system which helps you collect, store, query, and get alerts on metrics that are important to your applications and infrastructure. In this video, we introduce Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus which is designed to help you scale your monitoring. Watch to learn how you can configure and manage Prometheus to keep up with the metrics from all of your successful services!

Perfect Your Cloud's Deployment with Logz.io & AWS CloudFormation Public Registry

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. This helps you leverage AWS products such as EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud – without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure.

Introducing new integrations to make it easier to monitor Vault with Grafana

HashiCorp Vault is an increasingly popular multi-cloud security tool that allows users to authenticate and access different clouds, systems, and endpoints, and centrally store, access, and deploy secrets. At Grafana Labs, we’re always looking for ways to make it easy for our community to get started monitoring important parts of their systems. So we’re happy to share some new integrations that will help our users get the most out of Grafana + Vault.