The latest News and Information on Containers, Kubernetes, Docker and related technologies.
If you’ve been anywhere in the DevOpsphere in recent times, you have certainly encountered the Platform Engineering vs. DevOps vs. SRE debates that are all the rage. Is DevOps truly dead?! Is Platform Engineering all I need?! Have I been doing it wrong all along? These have become more popular than the mono vs. multi-repo flame wars from a few years back.
In Linux, network-based applications rely on the kernel’s networking stack to establish communication with other systems. While this process is generally efficient and has been optimized over the years, in some cases it can create unnecessary overhead that can impact the overall performance of the system for network-intensive workloads such as web servers and databases.
Health checks are an important factor when working with containerized applications in the cloud and are the source of truth for many applications in terms of their running status. In the context of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), health checks are a periodic probe to assess the functioning of containers. In this blog, we will explore how Lumigo, a troubleshooting platform built for microservices, can help provide insights into container crashes and failed health checks.
On this episode of Densify Talks, Josh and Andrew discuss automated instance selection and the importance of letting machines make the resource decisions as cloud environments scale. Speaking from the perspective of a hardware manufacturer, Josh offers unique insight into some of the criteria that affect the performance and cost of hosting apps in the cloud, and how to leverage “optimization as code” to automate the optimization process.
Wouldn’t it be great if Rancher could provision and manage not only Kubernetes clusters but also the OS running on the cluster nodes? This is the goal we had in mind when we started working on Elemental. Elemental adds to Rancher the ability to install and manage a minimal OS based on SUSE Linux Enterprise technology, delivered and managed in a fully cloud native way. This simplifies the infrastructure (you only need a container registry) and day 2 operations.