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Container Platforms: Why and How?

This article is all about demystifying container platforms and showing what value they bring on several levels: business, organization, and tech. There is a summary at the end, but if you can’t wait: it’s all about realizing that platform operations, with the right tools, can be seen as a commodity, and is therefore possible to centralize internally or outsource. Both lead to significant increases in return of investment (ROI) and the reduction of operational expenses. If platform administration is also outsourced, it also leads to a substantially lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Alternatives to Consider Before Investing in Service Meshes

4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what administrators are already familiar with.
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Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage

Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB Why we selected Thanos among 28 Prometheus integrations.
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HOW TO Stop Running Containers as Root

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Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for Microservice Authentication

HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and easily managed way on Kubernetes.
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DevOps: Why It Is Misunderstood & What It Always Should Have Been

We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a realistic approach to DevOps truly means.
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Taking EKS Distro for a Spin

TL;DR: EKS Distro = kops + Kubernetes fixes + aws-iam-authenticator AWS has recently launched EKS Distro, the Kubernetes distribution that powers its managed Kubernetes offer, called Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This means that customers no longer have to choose between EKS (as a managed service) and some other Kubernetes setup. Instead, they can choose between EKS as a service managed by AWS or managed by themselves. The application hosted on top won’t observe any difference.
  • December 4, 2020·
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