Deploying Microservices

The expert advice and news on deploying microservices provided in this resource center keeps SysOps and IT operations pros informed about how microservices evolved, production requirements and products to manage microservices.

April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21
Service mesh SaaS springs up in fragmented market

Service mesh is complex, and users can choose from among many vendor products. New SaaS versions offer a way for them to try different approaches without making a big commitment.
March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21
Cisco Intersight folds in Terraform Cloud amid SaaS revamp

Cisco has expanded its partnership with HashiCorp and readied a SaaS-managed Kubernetes service as it vies for a share of the software-centric market for cloud-native apps.
March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21
Kong service mesh paid version eases policy management pain

IT pros could cobble together an open source service mesh with Open Policy Agent on their own, but Kong Mesh will let them skip that struggle for a price.
March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21
Linkerd 'opt-in,' developer accessibility sway IT pros

Not every enterprise needs the detailed configurability of Istio service mesh, and devs can unobtrusively experiment with Linkerd alongside other Kubernetes workloads.

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Master containerized microservices monitoring

Before IT teams can enjoy the benefits that containers and microservices bring, they must tackle several monitoring hurdles first. Continue Reading
Micronaut framework

Micronaut is an open source JVM-based software framework for building lightweight, modular applications and microservices. Continue Reading
Learn how to deploy the Bottlerocket container OS in EKS

Bottlerocket is an open source, Linux-based container OS. Explore its role in AWS containerization and how it fits alongside EKS. Continue Reading

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How service mesh enables microservices networking

As microservices applications grow more popular, IT teams need to enable reliable networking between them for proper communication. That's where service mesh comes in. Continue Reading
Compare GitOps vs. DevOps for modern app deployments

Despite some overlap, GitOps and DevOps differ in several important ways, especially as organizations embrace containers and application componentization. Continue Reading
Orchestration vs. choreography in microservices architecture

Orchestration and choreography are related, but they each have their own role to play. Get to know the basics of these service call approaches, including the use cases for each. Continue Reading

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Manage containerized microservices with a service registry

It's easier than ever to spin up a containerized app, but that ease has created a problem: How to keep track of containerized microservices. Turn to service registries and orchestrators. Continue Reading
Best practices for threat modeling service mesh, microservices

In microservices and service mesh environments, communications don't follow static paths. As such, security teams must update their application threat modeling methods. Continue Reading
Scaling microservices takes conceptual skills and good tooling

Independent scalability is a major benefit of microservices, and simultaneously a complex and challenging thing to implement. Scale microservices with a focus on users' priorities. Continue Reading

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Improve microservices management in operations with 5 tips

Distributed applications are the future of IT, thanks to their scalability and flexibility, but growth means growing pains. Tackle microservices issues with this expert advice. Continue Reading
Is read-only mode a viable approach to container hardening?

Can containers work in read-only mode, and how does this setup make a difference in security hardening? Continue Reading
Docker for Windows shows permission errors on shared volumes

Understand and work around one of the more common Docker for Windows errors -- permissions for shared volumes -- to read, write and execute to the shared volume. Continue Reading