Announcement

appfleet joins Cloudflare

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Summary: Due to a great synergy between our products, I am happy to announce that Cloudflare and appfleet are joining forces! The appfleet platform is shutting down, with all clusters going offline on October 31st 2021. Long story: When we started working on appfleet our goal was to build an...

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Docker

Top 10 Container Orchestration Tools

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Top 10 Container Orchestration Tools

The Importance of Container OrchestrationContainers have revolutionized how we distribute applications by allowing replicated test environments, portability, resource efficiency, scalability and unmatched isolation capabilities. While containers help us package applications for easier deployment and updating, we need a set of specialized tools to manage them. To help with this, orchestration...

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Announcement

appfleet is now production ready!

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appfleet is now production ready!

First of all what is appfleet? appfleet is an edge compute platform that allows people to deploy their web applications globally. Instead of running your code in a single centralized location you can now run it everywhere, at the same time. In simpler terms appfleet is a next-gen CDN, instead...

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Docker

Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

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Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

There is no doubt about the fact that Docker makes it very easy to deploy multiple applications on a single box. Be it different versions of the same tool, different applications with different version dependencies - Docker has you covered. But then nothing comes free. This flexibility comes with some...

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Kubernetes

Tutorial: Kubernetes-Native Backup and Recovery With Stash

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Tutorial: Kubernetes-Native Backup and Recovery With Stash

IntroHaving a proper backup recovery plan is vital to any organization's IT operation. However, when you begin to distribute workloads across data centers and regions, that process begins to become more and more complex. Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes have begun to ease this burden and enabled the management...

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Kubernetes

Using Helm with Kubernetes

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Using Helm with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration system, however, it can be really hard to configure its deployment process. Specific apps can help you manage multiple independent resources like pods, services, deployments, and replica sets. Yet, each must be described in the YAML manifest file. It’s not a problem for a...

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AWS

Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

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Understanding Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS provides a Managed Kubernetes Service. Amazon does the undifferentiated heavy lifting, such as provisioning the cluster, performing upgrades and patching. Although it is compatible with existing plugins and tooling, EKS is not a proprietary AWS fork of Kubernetes in any way. This...

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