Kubernetes 101: Tips and tricks to maximise container investment

Source:-itbrief.com.au According to a Gartner survey, more than 50% of global organisations will be running containerised applications in production by 2020. This is a significant increase from the less than 20%Ā reported in 2017. If an organisation uses containers, it probably also uses an orchestration tool like Kubernetes. While containers can help teams gain agility, flexibility and ultimately increase delivery speed, they also create a lot of complexity. Because of this, it is important that DevOps teams have monitoring in place

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Zettaset Adds Kubernetes Support to Encryption Platform

Source:-containerjournal.com Zettaset announced it has added support for Kubernetes to its software for encrypting data at rest. Company CEO Tim Reilly says Zettaset XCrypt Kubernetes Encryption is designed to make it easier for IT organizations that have adopted Kubernetes to centralize the management of encrypted data across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Previously, Zettaset had enabledĀ the data stored on physical storage systems by Docker containers to be encryptedĀ at rest. That approach makes it possible to now automate encryption policy management as part

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How to accelerate your hyperconverged healthcare cloud: A guide

Source:-cloudcomputing-news.net In the race for digital transformation, even in healthcare, there is a need to implement the right systems and solutions to maximise uptime, increase operational performance and to reduce downtime. However, it isnā€™t as simple as going out to a supermarket to buy a loaf of bread. There are so many potential solutions and systems on the market claiming that they do the job – but do they? Thatā€™s the question that should arise whenever anyone is trying to

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Contrast Security Advances DevSecOps

Source:-securityboulevard.com Contrast Security this week added a Route Intelligence module to a Contrast Assess vulnerability assessment that automates the code scanning process. Surag Patel, chief strategy officer for Contrast Security, said Route Intelligence employs sensors in the form of lightweight agents to instrument applications so IT teams can more easily identify where vulnerabilities are located within code being developed. Those sensors allow the Contrast Assess platform to not only continuously assess applications for vulnerabilities as they are built and updated,

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Platform9 Adds More Tiers to Kubernetes Service

Source:-containerjournal.com With more IT teams now being required to work from home to help combat the COVID-19 outbreak, the ability to manage Kubernetes clusters remotely via a SaaS platform has become a lot more relevant, adds Maskasky. To achieve that capability, an IT organization simply needs to install Platform9 agent software in its Kubernetes cluster. In general, Maskasky says itā€™s clear more organizations are trying to operationalize Kubernetes at scale. The biggest challenge IT teams face is the shortage of

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How does DevOps in networking change network requirements?

Source:-searchnetworking.techtarget.com As more organizations embrace DevOps in networking, the approach can transform network requirements, such as visibility and security policies, which networks teams should consider. DevOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery or Agile teams have different network requirements than any other department. All three of these teams aim to eliminate roadblocks that slow down software development innovations. Thus, the speed of network deployments and changes is crucial to these development methodologies’ overall success. While network and application speeds constitute one area where

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Get to know cloud IoT services on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Source:-searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com Use this rundown of IoT offerings from AWS, Microsoft and Google to help decide which best suits your needs for collecting, processing and analyzing device data in the cloud. AWS, Microsoft and Google offer a range of cloud IoT services, as each tries to gain a foothold in this emerging market. It’s up to IT teams and entrepreneurs inside businesses to analyze what’s out there and determine which service best meets their needs. The IoT cloud market is roughly

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Five Surprising Ways Enterprises Are Putting Kubernetes To Work

Source:-forbes.com About five years have passed since Google handed over control of Kubernetes, its open-source container management platform, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Since then, Kubernetes has quickly become the leading container orchestration solution on the market. A 2019 survey that our company conducted with Aqua Security revealed 87% of respondents were running applications in containers, with nearly 90% of them running them in production. While Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for orchestrating applications in containers, the

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Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement

Source:-devops.com A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance. The survey finds 9 out of 10 IT professionals are making use of APM tools that are either deployed on-premises or accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS)

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Overcome these VMware Cloud on AWS migration challenges

Source:-searchaws.techtarget.com Plan ahead for a VMware-to-AWS cloud migration with this breakdown on common challenges organizations face during the move to VMware Cloud on AWS, and how to avoid them. It is easy to be enticed by the features and flexibility of VMware Cloud on AWS, but it is also important to consider the migration challenges that come with a move from an on-premises data center to AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS is a hybrid cloud service that can extend an

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Challenges to effective DevOps collaboration

Source:-sdtimes.com Developer productivity is impacted by many factors, including an organizationā€™s tools, practices, policies, and individual preferences. As you evaluate your current collaboration landscape, consider how the following may be holding your organization back from optimizing DevOps team efficiency. Collaboration silos inhibit productivity Teams tend to organically develop their own ways of working together using favorite communications tools and methods to power workflows and day-to-day teamwork. It gets complicated when a team needs to collaborate with others across the organization

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Microsoft JEDI contract leaves AWS to weigh its options

Source:-searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com Losing the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft forces AWS to consider its next steps in trying to reverse the government’s surprise decision. Days after Microsoft won the $10 billion JEDI contract over AWS, industry observers are still unpacking its ramifications and the forces that led to the Department of Defense’s surprise decision. “We’re surprised about this conclusion,” an AWS spokesperson said in a statement. “AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing, and a detailed assessment purely

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How to create a cloud centre of excellence: A guide

Source:-cloudcomputing-news.net You may have heard that creating a cloud centre of excellence (CCoE) is formative in your cloud strategy, resulting in a huge difference in the value of cloud migration for an organisation. Hereā€™s how to plan it out for success. What is a cloud centre of excellence? In the simplest terms, a CCoE is a team of experts, either in-house or external, who have the knowledge, experience and skills to help you plan and move to the cloud. In reality,

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Adopting Cloud-native in DevOps: A Journey

Source:-opensenselabs.com Traditional measures of development and delivery of software are taking new shapes in terms of faster, easier and powerful alternatives. While the industry is stillĀ embracing DevOps, the failures on the way are inevitable. Only on the path of innovation can we emerge with better solutions like theĀ cloud-native approach.Ā  The way applications are built with these new propositions can lead to bigger developments and digital transformations in modern enterprises. Letā€™s delve into the nature of Cloud-native with DevOps.   Stages

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Kubernetesā€™ next step could be to try orchestrating everything else

Source:-techrepublic.com Getting a Kubernetes cluster up and running isn’t as difficult as you might think. Kubernetes has become the darling of the enterprise world. Why? Because if you need the ability to quickly scale a deployment of containers, you cannot beat the power and flexibility of this tool. Data Center Must-Reads Quantum computing: Seven truths you need to know How to select a data backup system Data recovery do’s and don’ts for IT teams Server virtualization best practices and tips

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Carbon Relay Brings AIOps to Kubernetes

Source:-containerjournal.com At the Open Source and Software Development (OSCON) conference this week, Carbon Relay announced a Red Sky Ops platform that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize Kubernetes infrastructure resources. Red Sky Ops will be available in both open source and enterprise editions. The enterprise edition includes deep reinforcement learning capabilities to continually train the artificial intelligence (AI) agent, automatic Kubernetes application configuration, data sharing and advanced automation and scheduling capabilities. The core open source version of the platform provides

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DevOps vs. the juice cleanse: Only one is a passing fad

Source:-Ā enterprisersproject.com It’s easy to put off DevOps as just another trend: Culture change is hard. But your competitors aren’t waiting Many organizations view DevOps as aspirational. They treat it like a gym membership in January: they talk big, sign up and never go. We can easily imagine someone uttering the statement, ā€œWeā€™re a bank, not a streaming video service,ā€ as an argument against DevOps. This whole scenario reminds me of the joke about two hunters in the woods who come

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How DevOps Training and Certification Benefits the Team

Source:-Ā devops.com Cisco Systems recently announced sweeping changes to its training and certification programs to increase the real-world value of both. Ciscoā€™s move demonstrates a trend by organizations that provide training and certification to place more value on the practical aspects of educating technology professionalsā€”which, in turn, should have a major impact on those looking to build DevOps teams. ā€œAdvances in network technologies have enabled new applications and business modelsā€”converged IP networks enabled voice over IP, 3G networks enabled mobile applications

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How IT teams can implement DevOps

Source –Ā gcn.com Today government agencies face an increasingly complex technical and operational environment; they must be able to design and facilitate secure information sharing and data analysis in highly complex network environments. To effectively defend networks and speed national security decisions, government IT teams need the flexibility to deploy any kind of solution — from advanced virtualization, big data analytics and cloud computing, to application development, training and simulation. Many government agencies, however, rely on aging legacy systems, which impede

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HumanOps: Itā€™s time to make DevOps personal

Source:- jaxenter.com Over the years, as our infrastructure has moved to the cloud it has become more abstracted and self-correcting. During this time itā€™s been far too easy to forget that, when something goes seriously wrong, itā€™s still a human at the other end of the system waking up to fix it. The tech worldā€™s mantra of ā€˜move fast and break thingsā€™ has spread to many other industries and sectors relying on IT infrastructure for their products and services, however

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