Kubernetes - The Stack

Containerise everything? What Nutanix’s evolution says about the changing face of IT – and the rise of the platform engineer

The Stack spoke with the virtualisation specialist’s CEO and CTO

Edward Targett May 28, 2024

What a cluster! OpenAI's lead engineer quits. Fresh hire seeks monster-Kubernetes wranglers

"We probably use Kubernetes differently from a lot of people"

Edward Targett May 16, 2024

Nomad, Tanzu and Cycle: Three Alternatives to Kubernetes for Container Orchestration

"I’ve come to see Kubernetes as the J2EE of orchestrators..."

Charles Humble May 16, 2024

AWS adds Kubernetes spending breakdown capabilities

AWS adds Kubernetes spending breakdown capabilities

"Traditional FinOps cost allocation (e.g. mapping costs of resources back to teams or projects) doesn’t work. You can’t simply allocate the cost of a resource, such as EC2 instance to a tag or label..."

The Stack April 18, 2024

Interviews

Deutsche Bahn

How a platform focus helped Deutsche Bahn

A developer experience platform has been adopted by over 10,000 users, while a Kubernetes platform supports several hundred projects.

Joe Fay March 26, 2024

Kubernetes clusters are typically using just 13% of CPU: CIOs could save a small fortune

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Kubernetes clusters are typically using just 13% of CPU: CIOs could save a small fortune

Overprovisioning CPU and memory will keep the lights on, but it is costly. Underprovisioning them risks CPU throttling and out-of-memory kills, which cause applications to perform poorly or even crash."

The Stack February 28, 2024

A NASDAQ-listed firm left its Kubernetes clusters perilously exposed. 1,000+ have fallen into the same trap. Here’s why

cloud security

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A NASDAQ-listed firm left its Kubernetes clusters perilously exposed. 1,000+ have fallen into the same trap. Here’s why

Google says "we've taken several steps to reduce the risk of users making authorization errors with the Kubernetes built-in users and groups, including..."

The Stack January 29, 2024

The future of Kubernetes at AWS: Slack, Anthropic lead a "Karpenter" love-in

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The future of Kubernetes at AWS: Slack, Anthropic lead a "Karpenter" love-in

Hammer down those AWS bills, chisel away at that scheduling latency; pick a carpentry tool, pick your clumsy metaphor...

Edward Targett December 11, 2023