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Software development and the DevOps lifecycle now requires continuous integration and delivery, also referred to as CI/CD. To help users automate the steps between a developer checking in code and releasing that code into production, open source CI/CD solutions are created.

Kubernetes (K8s) packs a ton of benefits as a container orchestration platform. For instance, K8s is big on automation. This includes automating workload discovery, self-healing, and scaling containerized applications. Yet, Kubernetes isn't always production-ready after a few tweaks. This guide shares crucial Kubernetes best practices you'll want to start using immediately to improve your K8s security, performance, and costs. Let’s get to it!

The KubeCon event is a major cloud-native gathering thousands of people and hundreds of vendors for 3 days. Technology enthusiasts and adopters from leading cloud-native and open-source communities gather and discuss innovative ideas at KubeCon. It provides a forum where you can exchange relevant information and insights on the latest trends in Kubernetes and the container world.

Kubecon 2022 just concluded with plenty of exciting announcements, including our new open-source project, Helm-Dashboard, but we’ve got some more news to share on top of that.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed Kubernetes service that enables users to deploy and orchestrate containerized applications on Google’s infrastructure. Datadog’s GKE integration, when paired with our Kubernetes integration, has always provided deep visibility into the health and performance of your clusters at the node, pod, container, and application levels.

Cloud-native applications offer a lot of flexibility and scalability, but to leverage these advantages, we must create and deploy a suitable environment that will enable cloud-native applications to work their magic. Managed services, self-managed services, and bare metal are three primary categories of Kubernetes deployment in a cloud environment.