Insider: “A growing movement backed by Google is betting that cutting cloud costs doesn’t just save money — it kickstarts business growth”
Insider: “A growing movement backed by Google is betting that cutting cloud costs doesn’t just save money — it kickstarts business growth”
Similarly, Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, says engineers don’t currently apply the same level of rigor to cloud management as they do to software. And since they have “unlimited access to go...
July 1, 2021

What is Polaris? Kubernetes open source configuration validation
Member Post What is Polaris? Kubernetes open source configuration validation
Guest post originally published on Fairwinds’s blog by Robert Brennan, Director of Open Source Software at Fairwinds Kubernetes is an incredibly powerful platform for deploying software. The level of flexibility it provides can accommodate nearly any...
July 1, 2021 | Robert Brennan

ITPro: “Kubernetes costs spiraling as businesses fail to monitor spend”
ITPro: “Kubernetes costs spiraling as businesses fail to monitor spend”
Expenditure on Kubernetes is rising dramatically, and most businesses are struggling to accurately project how much they’re expecting to spend on their container orchestration systems in future. Over the last year, Kubernetes-related costs surged for 68%...
June 30, 2021

Securing Access to your Kubernetes Applications with Dex and RBAC
Member Post Securing Access to your Kubernetes Applications with Dex and RBAC
Guest post from Onkar Bhat, Engineering Manager and Deepika Dixit, Software Engineer, Kasten by Veeam Security is a critical requirement for application development, as is configuring authentication and authorization workflows in a way that makes the...
June 30, 2021 | Onkar Bhat and Deepika Dixit

Container Journal: “Survey Surfaces Recent Spike in Kubernetes Costs”
Container Journal: “Survey Surfaces Recent Spike in Kubernetes Costs”
A survey of 178 IT professionals that have deployed Kubernetes finds just over two-thirds of respondents (68%) have seen an uptick in Kubernetes costs, with an equal number either relying on monthly estimates (44%) or doing...
June 29, 2021

Container Journal: “CNCF Radar Highlights Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Preferences”
Container Journal: “CNCF Radar Highlights Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Preferences”
Kubernetes use has surged in recent years. While there has been much consolidation around Kubernetes for container orchestration (with some outliers), companies still adopt many different technologies to address Kubernetes multi-cluster management. The Cloud Native Computing...
June 29, 2021

FinOps for Kubernetes: Insufficient – or nonexistent – Kubernetes cost monitoring is causing overspend
Staff Post FinOps for Kubernetes: Insufficient – or nonexistent – Kubernetes cost monitoring is causing overspend
With the help of the FinOps Foundation, CNCF recently conducted a microsurvey of the extended community to see how organizations are managing Kubernetes and cloud costs with FInOps or Cloud Financial Management The survey found that...
June 29, 2021

IDG Connect: “Coders push back against offensive terminology”
IDG Connect: “Coders push back against offensive terminology”
Language matters. It demonstrates our values and has the power to make people feel part of – or excluded from – a community. Offensive terms should have no place in the language of computing, and yet...
June 29, 2021

TiFS, a TiKV-based partition tolerant, strictly consistent file system
Member Post TiFS, a TiKV-based partition tolerant, strictly consistent file system
Guest post originally published on PingCap’s blog by Hexi Lee, Software Engineer Intern at PingCAP TiKV is a distributed key-value storage engine, featuring strong consistency and partition tolerance. It can act either as the storage engine...
June 28, 2021 | Hexi Lee

The time for cloud-native communities is now… and it is data-driven
Member Post The time for cloud-native communities is now… and it is data-driven
Guest post by Adrian Gonzalez Sanchez, Head of AI Customer Success at Peritus.ai The international and cloud-native context  The evolution of the cloud-native ecosystem has been unstoppable during the last five years. The cohort of companies,...
June 25, 2021 | Adrian Gonzalez Sanchez