Application Rollout Planning and Problems

In this learning center, find tips and tools for IT operations staff to facilitate application scaling and performance optimization in production, as well as how to create a feedback loop to development as part of a successful ALM collaboration.

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December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18
Enterprise SREs guide devs through Kubernetes in production

Behind most enterprise developers that own and operate the services they create stands a platform engineering team that's teed up Kubernetes in its most manageable form.
December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18
Kubernetes 1.13 stabilizes storage, but Windows GA delayed

IT pros with Kubernetes in production welcomed stable releases of cluster install and container storage utilities in version 1.13, but they'll have to wait for some key features.
December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18
Kubernetes security issues raise concerns for enterprise shops

As Kubernetes enters the enterprise mainstream, it has early adopters abuzz about security issues in the platform and the containers it orchestrates.
December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18
Microsoft and Docker CNAB takes aim at distributed computing

Microsoft and Docker want to push container-like abstraction up the stack with the CNAB open source spec, which has piqued enterprise interest in its early stages.

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The ops team's role in securing IT infrastructure and apps

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