China’s largest retailer and the world’s third-largest Internet company by revenue, JD.com serves more than 300 million active customers with its e-commerce business. The company also owns China’s largest e-commerce logistics infrastructure, which covers an incredible…
A spinoff of the multinational conglomerate Alibaba, Ant Financial boasts a $150+ billion valuation and the scale to match. The fintech startup, launched in 2014, is comprised of Alipay, the world’s largest online payment platform, and…
Demystifying containers – part II: container runtimes
This blog post was first published on suse.com by Sascha Grunert. This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover…
STORK, storage operator for Multi-Cloud deployments
STORK (STorage Operator Runtime for Kubernetes), an open-source project, leverages the Operator SDK to provide better life cycle management of your persistent data for your stateful application in Kubernetes. STORK addresses challenges of storage layer observability…
Going Big: Harbor 1.8 takes security and replication to new heights
By Michael Michael, Harbor Core Maintainer, Director of Product Management, VMware (Twitter: @michmike77) Happy release day everyone! We are very excited to present the latest release of Harbor. The release cycle for version 1.8 was one of…
Helm 3 preview: Helm 3 Alpha release available and what's next
First published on https://helm.sh/blog by Matt Fisher @bacongobbler Helm 3 Preview: Charting our future – part 1: A history of Helm On October 15th, 2015, the project now known as Helm was born. Only one year…
Performance optimization of etcd in web scale data scenario
By Xingyu Chen, Software Engineer at Alibaba Cloud Abstract etcd is an open source distributed kv storage system that has recently been listed as a sandbox incubation project by CNCF. etcd is widely used in many…
Rook releases its first major milestone – v1.0
Rook, an open source cloud native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, as well as its thriving community, has continued to grow and evolve since the initial public release in November 2016. As the code base has matured…
Deploying complex stateful applications on Kubernetes with KubeDirector
Kubernetes is clearly the container orchestrator of choice for cloud-native stateless applications. And with StatefulSets and Persistent Volumes, it’s now possible to run stateful applications on Kubernetes. Tools like Kustomize, Helm, and Kubeflow help tackle some…
Nokia was the first name in mobile phones when they were becoming ubiquitous in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But by 2014, the company had sold off its mobile device division and was focusing its…