Kubernetes Planning

Much has been written about the technical features and benefits of Kubernetes. Technical advantages, however, are only part of the reason to migrate to Kubernetes. Cultural change is an equally important selling point for Kubernetes. In several key ways, Kubernetes can help to optimize the culture around which IT teams and developers are organized, regardless

Traditionally, there has been a conceptual divide in the IT industry between so-called Web-scale companies like Google, Facebook and Netflix, and everyone else. The Web-scale giants had the resources to build infrastructures that could scale without limit, deploy software updates thousands of times per day and achieve enormous agility. Meanwhile, everyone else was stuck with

In the public cloud, “design patterns” have emerged as a popular concept for defining cloud strategies tailored to specific use cases or goals. Microsoft offers a series of design patterns for Azure, for example, and practitioners have adopted similar strategies for AWS. To date, however, there has been less discussion of design patterns for private

The Kubernetes market is on a roll. In just a few years, open-source Kubernetes has grown so much in importance that we are already seeing major market consolidation and new products from marquee technology vendors. Last week, SUSE acquired Rancher. VMware launched Tanzu Kubernetes Grid earlier this year. IBM acquired Red Hat and OpenShift. Google

Kubernetes deployments can scale to support services and applications that run in a broad array of environments, from multi-cloud deployments to resource-constrained edge computing environments. But as businesses look to save money by optimizing infrastructural resources, the process of deploying thousands of microservices over geographically distributed servers can become increasingly complicated. If your company will

Kubernetes is widely recognized as a platform that enables highly efficient use of infrastructure, but organizations need to understand those benefits are maximized when the developer experience itself is optimized. Developers are increasingly assuming responsibilities for systems operations. In the past, it was common to have a separate team of systems administrators responsible for deploying

One of the things that makes Kubernetes so powerful is that it can run virtually anywhere: On bare metal servers and virtual machines, on-premises or in the public cloud. (These are overlapping categories to an extent, because an on-premises cluster could be hosted using bare-metal servers or virtual machines.) Yet the fact that Kubernetes can

Kubernetes is a complex platform that provides for highly scalable, efficient use of containers. Operating enterprise Kubernetes deployment is difficult. it can also be highly problematic for companies that just try to “wing it” and figure out what to do as they go along. Don’t let that be you. Here are some best practices to

High Availability (HA) and uptime may be similar concepts, but they’re not the same. Availability refers to how accessible your server is or how many people can connect to it; while uptime is about whether your server is even reachable. What this means is that if even a single connection to your server is possible,

When it comes to Kubernetes clusters, size matters. The number of nodes in your cluster plays an important role in determining the overall availability and performance of your workloads. So does the number of namespaces, in a way. This does not mean, however, that bigger is always better. A Kubernetes cluster sizing strategy that aims

Just as there are many parts that comprise Kubernetes, there are multiple ways to go about Kubernetes deployment. The best approach for your needs depends on your team’s technical expertise, your infrastructure availability (or lack thereof), your capital expenditure and ROI goals, and more. There are multiple ways to scale a Kubernetes environment to meet