Overcoming Kubernetes Infrastructure Challenges

Source:-https://containerjournal.com The widespread adoption of the Kubernetes standard for container orchestration has redefined how organizations manage computing deployments at the edge. In turn, more innovative use cases have emerged for lightweight Kubernetes distributions like K3s, designed for small footprint workloads. These Kubernetes deployments can range in size from 500 to 600 single-node clusters to 15,000 to 20,000 clusters, with an average size of 1,700 clusters. As an example, an oil and gas support services company, and Rancher Labs customer, intends

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4 cool Kubernetes tools for mastering clusters

Source – infoworld.com Kubernetes, the cluster manager for containerized workloads, is a hit. With the Big K doing the heavy lifting in load balancing and job management, you can turn your attention to other matters. But like nearly every open source project, it’s a work in progress, and almost everyone who works with Kubernetes will find shortcomings, rough spots, and annoyances. Here are four projects that lighten the load that comes with administering a Kubernetes cluster. Kube-applier A key part of

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Containers, clusters and coding: Here’s what’s coming in 2017

Source:- itproportal.com Everyone talks about containers. It became so huge that we think Docker has existed for a long time. The fact is that it has only started. We can observe that by the amount of changes we are seeing. Docker from two years ago is very different than Docker today. Products in its ecosystem are appearing every day and many are disappearing just as quickly. If there is a space we should turn our attention to, that’s containers. At

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