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Part 4 of our Introduction to FinOps for Kubernetes: Challenges and Best Practices article series, which outlines a comprehensive list of best practices aimed at implementing FinOps processes for cloud native Kubernetes environments.
August 26, 2021
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In a recent report, CNCF identified "a more granular and active Kubernetes cost-monitoring strategy" as a primary means of reducing K8s cost. In this article we identify major takeaways from the report and outline the contours of a comprehensive Kubernetes cost monitoring strategy.
August 12, 2021
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Part 3 of our Introduction to FinOps for Kubernetes: Challenges and Best Practices article series, which outlines a comprehensive list of best practices aimed at implementing FinOps processes for cloud native Kubernetes environments.
July 12, 2021
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Part 2 of our Introduction to FinOps for Kubernetes: Challenges and Best Practices article series, which outlines a comprehensive list of best practices aimed at implementing FinOps processes for cloud native Kubernetes environments.
July 2, 2021
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The Kubernetes tools ecosystem falls broadly into two categories: tools that complement Kubernetes by extending its feature-set or making it easier to configure already existing native Kubernetes artefacts and ones that make it easier to manage and operate Kubernetes itself. In this blog post we will outline tools in both categories and provide detailed descriptions of each.
June 23, 2021
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The introduction of Kubernetes with its ephemeral, hyper scalable and shared resources model requires an update in FinOps processes and practices employed by enterprises for their on-premise or cloud environments. In this article we will review some of these challenges confronted by enterprises looking to implement FinOps processes for cloud native Kubernetes based environments .
June 8, 2021
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Part 2 of the FinOps In Practice: Best Practices Checklist reviewing the best practices, processes and cultural paradigms that are recommended by the FinOps foundation. These best practices and processes are instrumental in developing and operating a successful FinOps practice that views the cloud as a driver of innovation and business value while at the same time improving transparency and accountability.
June 2, 2021
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Part 4 of the Ultimate guide to cloud FinOps blog series, which provides an in-depth review of FinOps phases as identified by the FinOps Foundation and outlines the activities that are performed in each phase.
April 19, 2021
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A review of the best practices, processes and cultural paradigms that are recommended by the FinOps foundation. These best practices and processes are instrumental in developing and operating a successful FinOps practice that views the cloud as a driver of innovation and business value while at the same time improving transparency and accountability.
April 12, 2021
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Part 3 of the Ultimate guide to cloud FinOps blog series, which outlines core FinOps principles, and provides an in-depth review of each one.
April 6, 2021
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Part 2 of the Ultimate guide to cloud FinOps blog series, which takes a deep dive into FinOps domains and roles, reviews the main responsibilities of those domains and identifies the current organizational roles that are candidates for inclusion in FinOps teams.
March 22, 2021
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FinOps is a set of cultural practices, organizational processes and tools aimed at managing cloud costs and introducing financial accountability to cloud expenditure. In this guide we trace the evolution of the FinOps framework, identify its main drivers and functions and provide an in-depth review of the processes, practices and technology stack comprising the FinOps framework.
March 15, 2021
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CTOs and infrastructure team leads actively limit the organic growth of Kubernetes and avoid giving cloud architects and DevOps teams free rein over Kubernetes in the absence of tools that allow them to control costs or improve cost visibility.
March 4, 2021
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Part five of our Kubernetes and Cloud native application checklist evaluates cloud native storage tools based on ease of installation and continued operations in cloud native environments as well as the feature set provided.
June 15, 2020
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A comprehensive guide to managed Kubernetes distributions outlining the features that CIOs, CTOs and ITDMs need to consider when evaluating enterprise Kubernetes distributions.
June 8, 2020
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Cloud native has taken the IT landscape by storm. But what is it? We sat down with Pini Reznik, CTO at Container Solutions and co-author of “Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation” to try and figure out what exactly Cloud native is, which specific technology pieces, processes and cultural dynamics need to come together to create Cloud native environments and the best way for organisations to forge into the Cloud native future.
April 22, 2020
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In this instalment of our Kubernetes best practices series we review the concepts of Kubernetes tenants and multi-tenancy, identify the challenges that have to be overcome and outline best practices for DevOps and cluster admins operating multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters.
April 20, 2020
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Part four of our Kubernetes and Cloud native application checklist evaluates service mesh tools based on ease of use in cloud native environments as well as their traffic management, security and observability feature-sets.
April 8, 2020
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Part three of our Kubernetes and Cloud native application checklist dives into cloud native networking tools. We also compare them based on the type of network encapsulation used, degree of support for network policy, encryption, service discovery and load balancing.
March 5, 2020
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Kubernetes Operators are built for specific applications and make it easier to create, configure, manage and operate those applications on Kubernetes. In this blog post we dig into the mechanics of Kubernetes operators and outline 10 operators that every DevOps needs to know about.
February 17, 2020
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In this guide to Cloud Native we outline the tools, cultural practices and concepts that come together to create a cloud native environment. We also outline the features of cloud native applications and review the tools that are the essential building blocks of cloud native environments.
February 3, 2020
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Part Two of our Kubernetes and Cloud native application checklist outlines CICD tools that CIOs, CTOs and DevOps teams leads can use to accelerate the build, test and deploy workflow for cloud native containerised applications.
January 27, 2020
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Part One of our Kubernetes and Cloud native application checklist outlines the tools and applications that CIOs, CTOs and DevOps teams leads can use to de clutter the development workflow making it easier for developers to write code and reduce integration issues when going to production.
January 20, 2020
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There has been a major uptake in on-premises Kubernetes deployments as of late. In this article we will outline some of the challenges and roadblocks that enterprises face when deploying and operating Kubernetes on-premises. We will also review the replex solution, see how it works on-premises , outline some of its features and how it helps mitigate those challenges.
January 6, 2020
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In this article we will take a deep dive into Kubernetes autoscaling tools including the cluster autoscaler, the horizontal pod autoscaler and the vertical pod autoscaler. We will also identify best practices that developers, DevOps and Kubernetes administrators should follow when configuring these tools.
December 5, 2019
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A step by step walkthrough of deploying a highly available, reliable and resilient Kubernetes cluster leveraging AWS EC2 spot instances as worker nodes using both Kops and EKS.
October 9, 2019
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FinOps is a cross domain discipline that represents a set of tools, best practices and processes aimed towards making software and infrastructure more cost effective. In this article we provide an introduction to Kubernetes Finops.
September 10, 2019
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In this article, we will dive into Kubernetes best practices for CIOs and CTOs. It is based on our blog series outlining best practices for DevOps and Kubernetes admins and provides a broader more zoomed-out view of best practices in production.
August 13, 2019
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The State of Kubernetes Report attempts to peer behind the curtain of the latest Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption trends. It is based on survey responses gathered from attendees at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019, O’Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose and ContainerDays in Hamburg.
July 31, 2019
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Metrics-server replaces Heapster as the primary cluster-wide metrics aggregator for Kubernetes with an integration into the Kubernetes dashboard. In this blog post, we will go through the process of installing and integrating metrics-server into the Kubernetes dashboard.
July 23, 2019
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Instalment three of the Kubernetes best practices series which outlines a checklist of Kubernetes best practices in the context of governance, cost management and security and access control.
July 4, 2019
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Replex team was in full attendance at the recently concluded KubeCon 2019 in Barcelona. Here is our take on the numerous talks, presentations and the latest updates from the Kubernetes community.
June 3, 2019
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Replex is excited to announce the launch of its Kubernetes Governance and Cost management solution for the modern cloud-native enterprise. With Replex the cloud-native enterprise can easily control and optimize costs, allocate and showback costs for individual teams or environments and enforce granular governance and compliance policies.
May 16, 2019
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A comprehensive guide to Kubernetes in Production. This guide contains best practices, checklists, tutorials and how-to guides for production-ready Kubernetes. We will be updating this page periodically, so stay tuned!
May 2, 2019
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Anthos is Google's portfolio of tools geared towards providing a consistent development and deployment experience for organizations on hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. In this article we take a closer look at what Anthos is, it's components, pricing as well as compare it to other hybrid cloud tools.
April 18, 2019
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Kubernetes Dashboard is the official web-based UI for Kubernetes. In this deep dive into the Kubernetes Dashboard, we will go through the process of installing, accessing and authenticating the Dashboard as well as adding basic resource metrics via Heapster.
April 12, 2019
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This is the second instalment in our blog series about monitoring Kubernetes resource metrics in production. In this post, we complement the process of Kubernetes resource monitoring with Prometheus by installing Grafana and leveraging the Prometheus data source to create information-rich dashboards in a user-friendly visual format.
April 3, 2019
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In this blog post we will take a deep dive into Kubernetes QOS classes. We will start by looking at the factors that determine whether a pod is assigned a Guaranteed, Burstable or BestEffort QOS class. We will then look at how QOS class impacts the way pods are scheduled by the Kubernetes Scheduler, how it impacts the eviction order of pods by the Kubelet as well as what happens to them during node OOM events.
March 22, 2019
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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 resource metrics is important for Kubernetes in production, choose resource metrics to monitor, set up the tools required including Metrics-Server and Prometheus and query those 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, allocation and chargeback 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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