AJ McCaw, September 6, 2023
In the realm of Kubernetes and cloud-native deployments, the terms Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 have become ubiquitous. They represent distinct phases in the lifecycle of software deployment and management, each with its own set of challenges and requirements.
There’s no denying the value of a successful platform team. According to Puppet’s 2023 State of DevOps Report, 94 percent of companies that have adopted platform engineering concepts agree that these help them better realize DevOps benefits. However, only 53 percent of firms that have been practicing platform engineering for over three years report that...
In recent years, the demand for self-service cloud provisioning has grown tremendously. Self-service is a paradigm that enables developers to access the cloud resources they need — such as computing, storage, and databases — and enables them to provide these resources without manual approval from infrastructure or DevOps engineers. This workflow removes friction by allowing...
Cloud computing took off with the advent of virtual machines. Virtualisation is the process of creating a software-based computer with dedicated amounts of CPU, memory, and storage from a physical host computer. This technology allows cloud providers to use the hardware in their data centres more efficiently, effectively turning one server into many — bringing...
Keeping secrets secure on Kubernetes is crucial for every organization. However, it’s easier said than done.
Namespaces are a vital feature of Kubernetes. They allow you to separate uniquely named resources into logical groups, though names don’t need to be unique between different namespaces. Namespaces can enforce separation between different deployment environments, as well as divide a cluster’s resources between multiple users and groups of users using resource quotas. There are...
DevOps teams have rapidly adopted Kubernetes as the standard way to deploy and scale containers in the cloud. It provides everything you need to configure, launch, and maintain containerized workloads in distributed environments. Kubernetes is a complex system with many moving parts, however. You need to configure your deployments correctly to get the most value...
Once you start working with Kubernetes, it’s natural to think about how you can run your traditional applications inside a cluster. You might even have to work with Kubernetes for a while before you start thinking about other ways to structure your applications. But why should you restructure your applications in the first place? It’s...
Self-service of cloud resources Kubernetes has been brilliant at delivering an ecosystem for developers, improving the velocity of shipping, bringing components under a common framework and DSL, coupled with the flexibility to expand and extend the offering. And so it beggars belief that speaking to customers, application dependencies and consumption is still a major bottleneck...
