How to Store Billions of Files with CockroachDB and Kubernetes
Optimal Systems came to CockroachDB with the best kind of problem: they had become too successful.
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Monitoring Kubernetes the Elastic way using Filebeat and Metricbeat
Beats, as you know, is a free and open platform dedicated to data shipping. Using Beats, you can transfer data from hundreds or thousands of…
Sending Messages to Kafka in Kubernetes
Today I am going to show you how to do the opposite, how to produce messages into Kafka aka how to send Messages to a…
Introducing Confluent for Kubernetes
Today, we are enabling our customers to realize many of the benefits of our cloud service with the additional control and customization available from self-managing…
Kubernetes 1.21 available from Canonical
Today, Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.21, from cloud to edge. Canonical Kubernetes support covers MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes and kubeadm. Starting with 1.21,…
Kubernetes 1.20: The Raddest Release
We’re pleased to announce the release of Kubernetes 1.20, our third and final release of 2020! This release consists of 42 enhancements: 11 enhancements have…
Continuous Blue-Green Deployments With Kubernetes
We’ve talked before about the generalities of blue-green deployments in another post. Today, I’d like to get into the gory details and see how we…
Learnings From Two Years of Kubernetes in Production
Almost two years back, we took the decision to leave behind our Ansible based configuration management setup for deploying applications on EC2 and move towards…
Expertise = Knowledge + Experience
Expertise is in short supply. Especially in cutting edge, advanced technology. Experts, full of knowledge but little practical experience abound (especially on the internet).
Low-budget self-hosted Kubernetes
Kubernetes doesn’t need to be something you only use on insanely large projects. It provides countless benefits even for small enterprises.
Elastic Stack Monitoring with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is the official operator for provisioning Elastic Stack deployments in Kubernetes. It orchestrates not only day-one provisioning, but also has…
Apache Kafka DevOps with Kubernetes and GitOps
Operating critical Apache Kafka® event streaming applications in production requires sound automation and engineering practices. Streaming applications are often at the center of your transaction…
Bulletproof Kafka, and the tale of an Amazon outage
On August 25th, one of our customers, who was using Supertubes to operate Kafka clusters on Kubernetes on Amazon, began to experience a service disruption…
WSL+Docker: Kubernetes on the Windows Desktop
For the last few years, Kubernetes became a de-facto standard platform for running containerized services and applications in distributed environments. While a wide variety of…