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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).
4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what administrators are already familiar with.
Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB Why we selected Thanos among 28 Prometheus integrations.
HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and easily managed way on Kubernetes.
We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a realistic approach to DevOps truly means.