Topic: container orchestration
How Platform Engineering Can Rescue DevOps from Kubernetes Complexity
While Kubernetes succeeded in reshaping how we think about infrastructure, it hasn’t eliminated the operational burden that comes with managing stateful services like databases. The very flexibility that makes Kubernetes so powerful has also given rise to sprawling toolchains, inconsistent patterns, and fragile integrations. For the DevOps tasked with keeping platforms stable and secure, Kubernetes … continue reading
Google Cloud invests $9 million in Kubernetes development
Google Cloud is officially giving up the ownership and management of its open-source Kubernetes project’s cloud resources to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google first introduced the open-source container orchestrator in 2014. In 2015, the company contributed the project to the CNCF. As part of this transfer, the company is funding the move … continue reading
8 surprising facts about Docker adoption
The average lifespan of a container is a mere two days. That was among eight surprising findings revealed in a survey by Datadog, the application monitoring solution provider, and released this week at DockerCon18 in San Francisco. Datadog took a sampling of its customer base, representing more than 10,000 companies and 700 million containers, the … continue reading
