The cost of running Kubernetes at scale with a large number of users quickly becomes untenable for cloud-native organizations. Monitoring costs, either via public cloud providers or with external tools such as Kubecost, is the first step to identifying important cost drivers and areas of improvement ... However, to truly reduce Kubernetes costs and simplify management in the long-term, teams should consider a new approach: multi-tenancy with virtual Kubernetes clusters ...

Are Kubernetes certifications the right thing for you? Maybe certifications are just worthless pieces of paper with a high price tag and hours of studying things you will never practically use on the job ...

In case you missed it, Kubernetes turned ten this summer. It's the perfect opportunity to reflect on how far cloud-native has come, and what the next ten years might hold. So to commemorate the occasion, here are ten top findings from Spectro Cloud's new 2024 State of Production Kubernetes report ...

For developers and engineers, Kubernetes represents a significant — and welcome — shift ... Unfortunately, Kubernetes also comes with drawbacks — mainly in the form of security vulnerabilities that most businesses have yet to fully wrap their minds around ...

Regardless of what kind of technology you're working with, boosting productivity is pivotal in today's market due to the proliferation of new innovations, the increase of AI, and an increasing consumer demand for a faster time to market. Developer productivity holds immense importance, not merely in coding faster but in making every minute count, particularly when time is constantly working against you ...

Serverless containers continue to rise in popularity — 46% of container organizations now run serverless containers, up from 31% two years ago — as teams look to improve developer productivity, according to 10 Insights on Real-World Container Use, a report from Datadog ...

As an orchestration tool, Kubernetes solves many IT issues that are, unfortunately, part and parcel of using containers, including the need for high availability, reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and spiraling costs. It's clear Kubernetes makes sense for organizations looking to manage containerized applications, but it's also a smart tool to help scale digital transformations — here's why ...

In 2023, developers will demand solutions that enable highly available cloud-native SQL Server availability groups (AGs) in containers, including support for Kubernetes (K8s) clusters — across mixed environments and across any type of infrastructure or cloud ...

As a recent technology, containers have emerged as a tool that can help your business become more agile in your software development lifecycle. Containers have many benefits that can give you a competitive advantage compared with more traditional software delivery methods. In this post, I explain what containers are, share the key benefits of containers for software development, and discuss why you might consider adding them to your DevOps processes ...

The broad adoption of containers and the emergence of Kubernetes as a de facto standard have pushed the boundaries of cloud native development's impact even further. Containers, though not a prerequisite for microservices, provide the right packaging for the mass adoption of microservices. As with all new tech, however, when one problem is solved, another often emerges ...

As containers become the default choice for developing and distributing modern applications and Kubernetes (k8s) the de-facto platform for deploying, running, and scaling such applications, enterprises need to scale their Kubernetes environments rapidly to keep up. However, rapidly scaling Kubernetes environments can be challenging ...