Kubernetes
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
OpenAI
What a cluster! OpenAI's lead engineer quits. Fresh hire seeks monster-Kubernetes wranglers
"We probably use Kubernetes differently from a lot of people"
Sponsored
Nomad, Tanzu and Cycle: Three Alternatives to Kubernetes for Container Orchestration
"I’ve come to see Kubernetes as the J2EE of orchestrators..."
Kubernetes
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..."
Interviews
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.
Kubernetes
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."
Kubernetes
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..."
Kubernetes
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...
Kubernetes
Public Kubernetes API server numbers pass one million, as attackers start to consider K8s a "central target"
"Once an attacker is past the initial access, the opportunities are ample for lateral movement and privilege escalation within a cluster..."
Epic
Epic relies on Nomad to keep gamers’ fantasy islands afloat
Kubernetes would have meant “monumental” amount of work
Snowflake
Snowflake is launching a fully managed container service: Just don't say "Kubernetes"...
Customers will be able to run containerised applications inside Snowflake, with the company provisioning Kubernetes clusters. "We want to make Snowflake the iPhone for data applications" says co-founder Benoit Dageville.
microservices
Opinion: Why monoliths are not always "bad" even in a cloud-native world
"I’ve heard people balk at the suggestion of this mixed approach, because they don’t deem it feasible to convert monoliths to microservices later in the application’s lifecycle..."