Announcing Linkerd 2.9: mTLS for all, ARM support, and more!
Project blog, cross-posted from Linkerd, written by William Morgan We’re very happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.9, the best Linkerd version yet! This release extends Linkerd’s zero-config mutual TLS (mTLS) support to all TCP…
How To Run Kubernetes Workflow Automation with AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS
Guest post originally published on CTO.ai’s blog by Benjamin Slater, Director of Technology and Tristan Pollock, Head of Community at CTO.ai One of the latest additions to the technical jargon soup is Kubernetes (k8s). It gets…
For PayIt, cloud native is a ‘competitive advantage’ for getting government services online
So much of our daily lives happen online these days, and yet the average adoption rate for a digital government service is less than 20%. PayIt’s founders set out to boost that number by offering a…
Introducing Nydus – Dragonfly Container Image Service
Guest post by Pengtao and Liubo, Software Engineers at Ant Group Tao is a software engineer at Ant Group. He has been working on Linux file system development for more than 10 years. He is also…
So much of our daily lives happen online these days, and yet the average adoption rate for a digital government service is less than 20%. PayIt’s founders set out to boost that number by offering a…
The what and why of distributed tracing
Tracing can be very powerful. It gives the ability to connect the customer experience to the backend services several hops away. This comes down to what information is in your traces. There isn’t one standard set…
Overcoming the challenges of cleaning up container images
Guest post originally published on wref’s blog, by Alexey Igrychev, software engineer Having lots of images residing in your container registry can become a noticeable issue while dealing with CI/CD pipelines for modern cloud-native applications delivered…
Rebuilding Linkerd’s continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Actions
Guest post originally published on the Bouyant blog by Andrew Seigner This post is a writeup of a talk Andrew gave at KubeCon EU 2020. Introduction In mid-2019, the Linkerd project’s continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes,…
Guest post originally published on CloudOps blog by Alexandre Menezes, Service Reliability Engineer, Red Hat Most applications will require resources from the environment they are running on. Memory, CPU, storage, networking, etc. Most of those resources…
The New Stack: “How Kubernetes is Becoming the Universal Control Plane for Distributed Applications”
Kubernetes is emerging as one of the best control planes in the context of modern applications and infrastructure. The powerful scheduler, which was originally designed to deal with the placement of pods on appropriate nodes, is…