Technological advances and astronomical growth in user access to the cloud demand the most innovative, reliable, scalable, available, and cost-optimized compute architectures and infrastructures that DevOps teams can build. Containerization offers a superior architecture to meet these specifications for many use cases. The most popular containerization platform is Kubernetes. Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, and […]
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According to respondents to CNCF’s Annual Survey 2021, 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating Kubernetes – a record high since their surveys began in 2016. The survey also indicated that Amazon EKS is the container orchestrator of choice on AWS, used by 50.6% of respondents (while only 30.8% of respondents are DIY Kubernetes […]
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In 2012, SoundCloud engineers realized they had a problem. Their existing monitoring solutions were insufficient for their needs. Development teams need real-time, actionable monitoring data to improve Kubernetes deployment uptime, enhance system performance, and boost resource optimization. In other words, they needed a solution to handle the complexity and distributed nature of their cloud applications, […]
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What are security groups for pods on Amazon EKS? Security groups are one of the keystone building blocks in any AWS cloud deployment. Security groups are like instance-level network firewalls. Since security groups are associated with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, they offer protection at the ports and protocol access levels. AWS realized […]
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When AWS Fargate was launched, it was the dawn of a new era for containers in the AWS ecosystem — for the first time, cloud engineers could deploy and manage containers without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. AWS Fargate was launched in 2017 for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) instances. Then, during re:Invent […]
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Learn how to use Argo CD, a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. At nClouds, we care about GitOps because we strive to use the latest and greatest technologies where they help our clients deliver innovation faster. It’s one of our core values at nClouds: Innovation culture that delivers client value. And, we’re using Argo […]
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We all get it — There are a lot of commands when using Kubernetes, and sometimes things skip your mind. For those pesky days when you just can’t remember how to do a simple thing that you swear you have done a million times, here is nClouds’ handy Kubernetes cheat sheet. Most of these commands […]
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Sometimes I wonder which technology has more buzz: Kubernetes or AI? Honestly, being a DevOps engineer at a DevOps consulting company, I would say the answer is Kubernetes. 🙂 But, just like any popular technology, there is some confusion because there are many options for deployment: You could use a native solution from your cloud […]
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Is your business focused on delivering new features faster? To do so, are you implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline? Would you like to accelerate the CI/CD process by moving code from development and user acceptance testing stages (DEV/UAT) to production stage (PROD) faster? If so, this blog is for you. In […]
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Does your business need to innovate faster to remain competitive? To accelerate the pace of innovation, have you implemented modern microservices-based applications running in containerized environments? Do you want to improve the availability of those applications and enhance engineering productivity? If so, this blog is for you. The dynamic challenge of microservices Microservices are implemented […]
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