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…
How to security harden Kubernetes in 2022
Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog by the Elastisys team The NSA/CISA guidelines summarized, with Elastisys hands-on advice and real-world recommendations. Kubernetes is now the most popular container orchestration platform. Practically gone are the Mesoses…
mTLSing services with Linkerd at scale without impacting developer productivity Finleap Connect operates multiple high-density bare-metal Kubernetes clusters with up to 5,000 pods — keeping their customers’ highly sensitive financial data safe is business-critical. Needless to…
Local Env as Code: Is it possible yet
Guest post by Jan Van Bruggen, Developer Relations Lead at itopia In the past decade, we’ve seen the rise, standardization and meme-ification of “as code”: Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code, Policy as Code and soon…
Project post originally published on the Flux blog by Daniel Holbach As the Flux family of projects and its communities are growing, we strive to inform you each month about what has already landed, new possibilities…
This is a summary of the Kubernetes project’s contributor community and activities. This report documents both quantitative measures of community health (project milestones and snapshot) as well as qualitative measures of the community as reported by…
Best practices for deploying applications to production in Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on the Elastisys blog Going live with your application and deploying it to production on Kubernetes means you are exposing it to your end users. You want this to be a successful…