Guest post originally published on the Snapt blog by Dave Blakey Kubernetes is a popular tool for container orchestration. But why are so many companies choosing to use Kubernetes, and what benefit does it offer software…
Why Spark chooses Volcano as built-in batch scheduler on Kubernetes?
Guest post by Volcano Maintainers On June 16, 2022, Apache Spark released its new version, v3.3. The highlight of this version is that it provides framework support for customized Kubernetes schedulers and, for the first time,…
Scaling container technologies at Coinbase with Kubernetes
End user post originally published on the Coinbase blog by Clare Curtis, Coinbase Staff Software Engineer Tl;dr: Our recent evaluation of Kubernetes underscored its suitability for scaling Coinbase into the future. In the past, a migration…
Profile layering for Helm encourages self service for Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on the Weaveworks blog by Darryl Weaver, Solution Architect, and David Stauffer, Product Manager In this blog, we explain how to build a self-service Kubernetes platform with Helm, GitOps, and Cluster API….
My first in-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
Community post by Rishit Dagli This year I got a chance to attend my first in-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Valencia, Spain under the generous Dan Kohn scholarship by CNCF and Linux Foundation. Throwback to when…
Project post by Volcano project maintainers CNCF Volcano 1.6.0 is now available with new features such as elastic job management, dynamic scheduling and rescheduling based on actual resource utilization, and MPI job plugin. Volcano is the …
Kubernetes Operators: what are they? Some examples
Guest post originally published on the SparkFabrik blog Kubernetes offers limited initial functionality to ensure flexibility and scalability. K8s Operators are software extensions that make use of Kubernetes APIs to extend behavior. What do we need…
The top 10 fallacies in platform engineering
Guest post originally published on Humanitec’s blog by Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec We spoke to over 1850 engineering organizations last year. Most are planning to or already building an Internal Developer Platform. Here are…
Our trip to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Valencia 2022, day by day
Guest post originally published on the Mia-Platform blog by Giulio Roggero, CTO, Mia-Platform We live in an ever‑changing world where technology plays a key role in evolution. The ultimate expression of this concept is KubeCon Valencia, the…
Breaking the multi-cloud barrier in a regulated industry
Guest post originally published by Kasper Borg Nissen, Lead Platform Architect at Lunar How Kubernetes and Linkerd became Lunar’s multi-cloud communication backbone At Lunar, a Scandinavian online bank, we embraced cloud native tech early on. We’ve…