Difficulty balancing between too many and too few dimensions in metric data is known as the Cardinality challenge in monitoring. Here's how to overcome it.

Probably the most common question I received when I told people I was writing a book about monitoring was, “Have you read James Turnbull’s book?”

I’m putting that to rest with a delightful conversation with James Turnbull on a variety of topics, including…

The prize of ubiquity is invisibility

Review of the CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) program of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with tips & tricks

IntroductionStarting with version 1.3, Kubernetes includes beta support for network policies that allow you to exert control over connections to your containers. For those unfamiliar with Kubernetes network policies they have the following...

This blog article discusses Rootless Containers, which was introduced in Docker 19.03, and how this feature further improves the security and manageability of containers.

On July 19, Grafana Cloud’s Hosted Prometheus service experienced a 30-minute outage. Here’s our incident postmortem.

One of the key features of our container management platform, Pipeline, as well as our CNCF certified Kubernetes distribution, PKE, is their ability to form and run seamlessly across multi- and hybrid-cloud environments. While the needs of Pipeline users…

Polaris Snapshot will let you generate a report and allow teams to sync on how to make their Kubernetes workloads more stable, efficient, and secure.

So, you know you want to run your application in Kubernetes but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re getting started but still don’t know what you don’t know. In this blog you’ll walk through how to containerize an application and get it running in…

Use Pulumi's for Day 2 Kubernetes. Spin up a new EKS cluster, add one more node groups, and migrate the workloads with zero downtime using code and kubectl.

As the Kubernetes API evolves, APIs are periodically reorganized or upgraded. When APIs evolve, the old API is deprecated and eventually removed.
The v1.16 release will stop serving the following deprecated API versions in favor of newer and more stable API…

A very brief exploration of what we mean when we talk about reconciliation in the context of Kubernetes APIs and controllers.

This is mostly animatio…

Create, manage, snapshot, and scale Kubernetes infrastructure in the public cloud.

So devops is not a skill (despite what job titles would have you think). It’s a mindset that espouses Ops and Dev sharing their skillsets…