How CERN Accelerates with Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and CoreDNS
November 11, 2020
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is known for its particle accelerator and for experiments and analysis of the properties of subatomic particles, antimatter and other particle-physics-related research. CERN is also where the World Wide Web (WWW) was created.
Computing: ” Cloud native explained. An interview with Cheryl Hung, VP Ecosystem at CNCF”
October 30, 2020
Cheryl Hung is VP Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) arriving at this role from Google, where she says cloud native practices have been the norm for a decade, via a stint a with storage platform...
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for fine-tuning Kubernetes”
October 29, 2020
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosts KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, taking place online November 17-20. CNCF manages the open source Kubernetes project, and offers Kubernetes training and certifications, in addition to KubeCon. Expert Kubernetes users should strive...
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes professionals”
October 27, 2020
Some of your applications are containerized, running in production on Kubernetes or a supported distribution thereof. You’re reaping the benefits of a consistent application environment from development to test and production. What’s next? KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America...
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
October 27, 2020
While Kubernetes is a relatively young technology, reaching version 1.0 in 2015, many IT organizations run large production workloads with mature Kubernetes and container deployments. For these advanced adopters, the information shared at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can expand...
SearchITOperations: “KubeCon 2020 preview: Session guide for Kubernetes beginners”
October 27, 2020
With more than a dozen technical tracks and hundreds of sessions, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon can prove daunting to a Kubernetes beginner. But as a low-cost virtual event in 2020, the conference presents a unique opportunity for Kubernetes adopters...
TechRepublic: “Open source: Why naiveté might be the key to success”
October 23, 2020
In our efforts to uncover the keys to open source success, we may be overlooking the most important attribute of all: Profound naïveté. Talk to Dries Buytaert (Drupal) or Daniel Stenberg (cURL) or [insert name of your preferred...
The Register: “Ever wondered what exactly is going on in those containers? OpenTelemetry edges toward GA, emits tracing specification release candidate”
October 22, 2020
The OpenTelemetry community has taken another step toward General Availability with the first release candidate of the tracing specification. It’s quite the milestone for the project, which modestly describes itself as the second most active (behind Kubernetes, natch)...
InfoQ: “Q/A with Creator of Envoy and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein”
October 14, 2020
EnvoyCon 2020 is scheduled as a virtual event this week. Envoy which was the third project to graduate from CNCF behind Kubernetes and Prometheus was originally created at Lyft. It’s a high performant edge/middle/service proxy well suited for...
ProgrammableWeb: “Understanding the Essentials of gRPC”
October 14, 2020
In this installment, we’re going to take a more detailed look at gRPC. We’re going to briefly review the basics we discussed prior. We’re going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification and implementation....