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From failure to fix: Diagnose Kubernetes Node and Pod problems with Site24x7

Picture a busy Monday morning. You are working on leftover projects from the previous week, and assuming everything is fine with your applications as you had not received support tickets during the weekend. All of a sudden, during the middle of the day, you get a flood of reports from users who complain about slow response in your application and error pages piling up. You and your team are scrambling hard to figure out the issue.

Kubernetes Alternatives: What the Latest Search Trends are Signaling

Search is the signal. If you want a glimpse into where things are headed, just take a peek at this graph of search interest for Kubernetes Alternatives from the last few years. Cycle is a direct Kubernetes alternative, and having been part of building this company since 2018, I can tell you that this graph is so much more accurate than you can ever imagine. Until late 2021, talking about not using Kubernetes was met with an almost dogmatic intransigence.

#039 - Banking on Kubernetes: From Fintech Frontier to Regulatory Reality with Kasper Nissen (Dash0)

In this episode, Itiel sits down with Kasper, a Developer Advocate at Dash0. Kasper discusses his background, including his extensive experience building platforms on Kubernetes at Lunar, a Nordic challenger bank. He shares insights into the challenges and successes of using cutting-edge cloud-native technologies in a regulated banking environment. Kasper also touches upon his involvement in the CNCF community as an ambassador and co-chair for KubeCon. The discussion explores Lunar's philosophy of leveraging open-source projects and their journey of adopting Kubernetes and other cloud-native tools.

Drift Away: The Hidden Risk of Large-Scale Kubernetes Environments

Configuration drift is a silent but persistent challenge in managing Kubernetes environments at scale. Whether you’re running workloads across multiple clusters in on-premises data centers, cloud providers, or edge locations, the risk of drift increases exponentially as environments grow. According to a Komodor survey, 40% of Kubernetes users report that configuration drift negatively impacts the stability of their environments.

SUSE Virtualization - Enforcing Admission Resource Integrity With Validating Admission Policy

Blog written by: Ivan Sim SUSE Virtualization – Enforcing Admission Resource Integrity With Validating Admission Policy With more enterprises using SUSE Virtualization (formerly Harvester) as the bedrock virtualization platform to host their modern cloud-native AI and edge workloads, it’s important that the platform provides seamless built-in guardrails to validate and sanitize resources admitted into the environment.

Container Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for Kubernetes & Windows

Managing containerized workloads and Windows environments requires more than just basic monitoring—it demands deep observability to prevent performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and accelerate troubleshooting. Virtana’s latest Container Observability enhancements provide IT teams with greater control, visibility, and analytics across Kubernetes and Windows-based workloads.

Announcing Densify's Latest Release: Smarter Kubernetes Automation, Built for the Enterprise

To coincide with KubeCon Europe 2025, we’re excited to announce the latest release of Densify’s Kubernetes optimization engine, Kubex, which delivers full-stack resource management and seamless automation resource optimization at enterprise scale. This release delivers the advanced controls enterprises have been asking for—without sacrificing the intelligence and precision that sets Densify apart.