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In this instalment of the Kubernetes in Production blog series, we take a deep dive into monitoring Kubernetes resource metrics. We will see why monitoring resources is important for Kubernetes in production, choosing which resource metrics to monitor, setting up the tools required including Metrics-Server and Prometheus and querying metrics.
March 7, 2019
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Deploying Kubernetes in production is no easy task. Kubernetes environments need to hold up on the rough seas of production from an availability, security, scalability, resilience, monitoring and resource management perspective. In this instalment of the Kubernetes Production Readiness and Best Practices Checklist series, we dive into the topic of Resource Management.
February 27, 2019
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This is the second instalment in our Kubernetes Labels and Label Selectors Best Practices blog series. In this article, we dive deeper into best practices for Label Selectors in the context of Kubernetes Controllers.
February 22, 2019
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Deploying Kubernetes in production is no easy task. Kubernetes environments need to hold up on the rough seas of production from an availability, security, scalability, resilience, monitoring and resource management perspective. To make the task easier we have compiled a checklist of best practices that DevOps and Kubernetes administrators can go through to ensure their Kubernetes deployments are production ready.
February 20, 2019
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There are three ways organizations can do cost accounting and allocation for Kubernetes clusters: Based on Kubernetes primitives, based on infrastructure and based on custom organizational groupings. Read on to learn about each in more detail.
February 5, 2019
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Implementing a comprehensive and well thought out tagging policy for Kubernetes cluster resources is the first step towards cost allocation, reporting and optimization. In this blog post we will learn how to tag AWS EC2 instances, EBS volumes, autoscaling groups and ENI's using cloud label tags.
January 29, 2019
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What questions should DevOps teams and IT managers be asking about their production Kubernetes deployments? Read on to learn how you can gain more visibility into your production Kubernetes deployments and ensure optimized resource usage.
January 28, 2019
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Cloud labels are a Kops feature which allow us to attach key value pairs to Kubernetes objects. Cloud labels map to AWS tags and allow us to allocate and analyse Kubernetes costs.
January 21, 2019
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DigitalOcean managed Kubernetes is in limited availability right now, with general availability and a roll out across all regions scheduled for Q1, 2019. We sat down with Daniel Levy (Head of customer success) and Fabian Barajas (Solutions engineer) to get the inside scoop on DigitalOcean Kubernetes.
January 14, 2019
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The second installment in our Kubernetes cost comparison guide for AWS, GCE, Azure and Digital Ocean. In this blog post we add persistent volume cost to our earlier cost comparison, for a broader cost estimate.
January 14, 2019
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As Kubernetes becomes a vital part of the DevOps toolkit and moves into the enterprise space, how can it help in managing and accelerating IOT edge computing use-cases?
January 14, 2019
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Looking for the perfect gift for your cloud native colleagues? What better than a book? Here is our curated list of books that will get them started on the Kubernetes journey.
December 20, 2018
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Virtualization and containers reflect the relentless march of data center/infrastructure technology towards hyper scalability, workload isolation and portability and resource usage optimization
November 26, 2018
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Kubernetes labels allow DevOps teams to identify, select and operate on Kubernetes objects. In this blog post we outline 9 best practices for working with Kubernetes Labels and examples for Kubernetes label keys and values
September 28, 2018
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Kubernetes costs can vary significantly across cloud providers and their respective managed Kubernetes services. Read on for an in-depth Kubernetes cost comparison across the top 4 cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure and Digital Ocean.
September 19, 2018
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Kubernetes cluster costs on AWS can vary significantly from estimated amounts, leaving a lot of room for improvement. Read on to learn about the 7 things you can do to optimize your AWS Kubernetes costs.
September 11, 2018
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Kubernetes resource usage is an important concept to understand if you want to keep tabs on Kubernetes costs, avoid resource contention and deficiency and optimize resource utilization. Read on to learn how you can manage and optimize Kubernetes resource usage.
September 3, 2018
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Kubernetes cost accounting and allocation is one of the first operational problems production Kubernetes implementations run into. Accurately allocating Kubernetes costs is not only a management requirement but also a first step towards optimizing your Kubernetes costs.
August 27, 2018
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