Guest Author Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration because it revolutionized the way applications are deployed and managed at scale. But sometimes, it is a good choice to run a GPU-intensive workload, tokenization, or LDAP/Active Directory applications on virtual machines (VMs) instead of containers for security, compatibility, or performance reasons. Virtual machines have long been the go-to technology for running diverse workloads, offering greater isolation, compatibility with legacy applications, and the ability to run operating systems of different ty ..read more

Guest Author According to a report generated by Statista, around 61% of organizations worldwide have started using Kubernetes. One of the reasons for this is the many benefits that Kubernetes provides for businesses across the world. For instance, Kubernetes can automate self-healing, workload discovery, and scaling containerized applications. It also helps to simplify the process of deploying and running distributed apps at scale, thereby making it the ideal tool for managing microservices. In this article, I’ll highlight Kubernetes best practices that will help developers improve their proje ..read more

Guest Author Let’s assume your family is organizing a large dinner party. Due to health concerns, each family member has different dietary requirements and preferences, so you’ll need to carefully spread ingredients and resources to ensure everyone has a filling meal. But then problems started to arise — some family members unexpectedly brought guests while others had larger appetites, which led to a sudden rise in the demand for more food. So, it became challenging to distribute food proportionately to everyone. This is similar to the challenges of improving resource allocation in Kubernetes ..read more

Let’s assume your family is organizing a large dinner party. Due to health concerns, each family member has different dietary requirements and preferences, so you’ll need to carefully spread ingredients and resources to ensure everyone has a filling meal. But then problems started to arise — some family members unexpectedly brought guests while others had larger appetites which led to a sudden rise in the demand for more food. So it became challenging to distribute food proportionately to everyone. This is similar to the challenges of improving resource allocation in Kubernetes, where applicat ..read more

Virtual. Free. 100% Open Source. KubeCon NA is just around the corner, and that means KubeCrash, the Chicago warm-up, is almost here too! Join us on October 18 for a virtual, free, and 100% open source-focused conference. This time around, we’ll dive deep into cooperative multi-cluster deployments at enterprise scale. Check out the program and register today. Image source: https://www.kubecrash.io/Multi-cluster deployments at enterprise scale This KubeCrash will dive deep into multi-cluster deployments at enterprise scale, using a single stateful demo app throughout the presentations ..read more

Guest Author All you need to know This is the third article in our ongoing series on Envoy Gateway releases, covering the July 2023 release of v0.5.0. Our goal with this series is not just to rehash the release notes or cover them in full but to highlight major and minor changes we think are important and provide context. This release includes: Support for data plane proxy telemetry Support for the Envoy Patch Policy API Admin server for Envoy Gateway Added best practices default edge settings to xDS resources If you need a refresher on what Envoy Gateway is and the project go ..read more

Edge Stack WAF — One-stop built-in security One-Stop API Gateway solution with built-in PCI 6.6 compliant WAF In today’s landscape of growing security and compliance concerns, finding the right solution to open up your application to the world can be time consuming and involve sourcing bits of the solution from multiple vendors. Ambassador Labs is here to help with our Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway now with its own WAF functionality built in. No longer do you need to pair a potentially expensive third party WAF offering with your API gateway to meet your company’s compliance needs. We ..read more

A story hit #1 on Hacker News a few weeks ago titled “The Worst Programmer I Know.” The story’s protagonist, Tim, never scored any story points. Why? [H]e never signed up for any stories. Instead he would spend his day pairing with different teammates. With less experienced developers he would patiently let them drive whilst nudging them towards a solution. […] With seniors it was more like co-creating or sparring; bringing different worldviews to bear on a problem, to produce something better than either of us would have thought of on our own. Tim understood this (and nearly got fi ..read more

Guest Author In today’s fast-paced development environments, time is of the essence. Containers must be tested and deployed promptly by developers to guarantee that they match the required criteria. Docker Desktop provides an excellent platform for building and testing containers, but developers often face challenges with debugging and testing containers that interact with other systems. This is where telepresence for Docker Desktop comes in. Telepresence is a tool that allows developers to develop and debug microservices locally while interacting with remote services. In this article, we will ..read more

Community Events Ambassador Labs is excited to announce that we’re sponsoring the upcoming developer event DevOpsDays in Madrid on October 6, 2023. First held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2009, DevOps Days has grown in popularity and has expanded internationally, with 51 events worldwide in 2022 and 60 events in 2023. The Madrid event, which was last held in 2020, will welcome 500+ developers and other tech professionals to the CEU San Pablo Monteprincipe University campus. What is DevOpsDays? DevOpsDays is a user-oriented technical conference covering topics related to software development and IT in ..read more