This blog is part 2 of our introduction to Flux. In part 1, we walked through the history of Flux, its graduation as a CNCF project, and dove into the core features of Flux as they fit into the evaluation criteria. In this blog, we’ll take a deeper look at some of Flux’s unique capabilities,
· September 21, 2023 · 9 min read
The following blog provides an overview of Flux, its lifecycle, adoption, unique capabilities, and several references to help you get started. This is not intended to be a getting started guide. If you’re looking for one, a great hands-on guide is available here: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/tutorial/Try-out-this-GitOps-tutorial-with-Flux-and-Kubernetes About Flux Flux is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Continuous Delivery
· September 14, 2023 · 6 min read
This is the 4th blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read part 3 here, or can go back and read parts 1 and 2 here and here. For the last decade, operations teams have delivered Infrastructure-as-Code (IoC) on public clouds and virtualized infrastructure, using
· September 7, 2023 · 10 min read
This is the 3rd blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. Imagine, your engineering team just updated a project plan showing a three-week delay. The cause? Lack of consistency across development and integration environments. You reach out to
· August 3, 2023 · 4 min read
This is the 2nd blog in Chris Jones’s series on scaling Kubernetes for applications, GitOps, and increasing developer productivity. You can read part 1 here. Part 3 and part 4 of the series are also available. GitOps is the best practice for operating cloud-native at scale. Almost as soon as you get your first
· August 1, 2023 · 7 min read
There’s a big problem brewing in the world of data engineering, high-performance computing (HPC), and machine learning. Since the release of ChatGPT, the once quiet but critical function of the world’s data teams has seen an increase in demands, new scrutiny, and questions appearing around ROI. ChatGPT spurred awareness, along with ‘features’ that almost anyone
· June 6, 2023 · 9 min read
As 2023 is proving to be a year where most ‘happenings of note’ are negative, it was refreshing and uplifting to see the successful transformation of the Linux Conference into the Open Source Summit. The event was intimate and full of creative and insightful content, but there’s no hiding that everyone there thought there would
· May 15, 2023 · 4 min read
How do you run Kubernetes at scale in production and simultaneously unleash the potential of your engineering teams? The question may seem to be either duplicative or conflating a solution for one problem with the solution for a second. In truth, it’s neither. Unleashing the potential of development teams at scale The solutions for running
· April 13, 2023 · 6 min read
Kubernetes isn’t impossible to learn; not for operations teams and not for the software developers who create the applications that we all use on a daily basis. Then why do organizations continue trying to create Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layers to obfuscate Kubernetes? Maybe it’s the fear of letting developers access clusters? Maybe it’s a belief that
· March 9, 2023 · 6 min read
Writing code and getting it live in production has never been easy, and Kubernetes – for all of its benefits – is introducing new challenges. In traditional virtual environments, engineers have always had to handle build issues and feedback from QA, then address issues found in integration environments. Ultimately, they could spend days on just
· March 2, 2023 · 8 min read
Running a high-performance, large-scale Kubernetes environment is like speaking a foreign language. Imagine ordering three Hitachino, Takoyaki, Edamame, and Agedashi without reverting to a smartphone – that’s live translating. When you learn the language, get the order right, and flawlessly request the next three beers without issue, you get to sit back, relax and enjoy
· November 2, 2022 · 6 min read
Over the past 12 months, the team at Platform9 has been working hard to create a completely new way to build, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters. We call it Profile Engine Stage 2. Built using Arlon – a new open source project that integrates ArgoCD with Cluster API that anyone can use. Profile Engine Stage
· October 18, 2022 · 9 min read