It should surprise no one that Kubernetes uptake is growing and will continue to do so. The wildly popular container orchestration platform’s continuous development is fueled by broad adoption. This will continue in 2023 as more companies, teams and individuals embrace it as a platform for innovation, building new applications and scaling existing ones faster than ever before.

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to deliver mission-critical microservices across clouds. The team at VMware Tanzu has been hard at work this year, continuing to enhance the overall developer and operator experiences on the platform. In addition to this work, the team continued to collaborate closely with the Cloud Foundry community and honor VMware’s commitment to open source ecosystems.

We see it often. Too many companies struggle to optimize their cloud costs — whichever platform they use, from Microsoft Azure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). So, in this guide, we are sharing over 20 Azure cost optimization best practices you can apply right away — all in a calorie-free, snackable guide you can read in less than a coffee break.

How do you evaluate your SRE team’s progress in implementing SRE? We discuss the key SRE indicators for evaluating your team’s progress in the SRE maturity model. ‍ What is the SRE maturity model? ‍ The SRE maturity model is a way of judging how far you are in implementing SRE principles. It is a method used by teams to understand where they ought to implement more SRE best practices to reach greater SRE maturity.

Organizing a software release is a cross-team effort and a large undertaking. Leveraging the power of Mattermost Playbooks can help your team stay on deadline and keep confusion at bay. In this post, we’ll learn how to quickly integrate Mattermost into your GitLab release pipeline to help streamline your release processes. At the end of the blog post, there’s a link to a release management demo that you can try out in the browser to see these ideas in action.

MongoDB has evolved into the database solution of choice for developers looking to build efficient, scalable applications in the cloud. But, as when using any cloud-based infrastructure, using MongoDB introduces an additional layer of complexity to customers’ IT spend. This week, we announced support for MongoDB on the CloudZero Platform.

Earlier this year, a new user management system was announced, designed to give Spot’s users more granular control on their Spot resources at both the organization and account levels. As we got very good feedback from customers, we are now happy to announce a new feature in the user management system called Custom Policy Conditions. The condition feature allows users with policy modification access to create conditions within the policy.