We got together with DoKC (Data on Kubernetes Community) and Platform9, to discuss – can data on Kubernetes become declarative, just like its infrastructure? The full webinar is available here.
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Why is Kubernetes’ high availability (HA) important for your business, and how do you design for stateful Kubernetes high availability workloads?
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Having a cloud-agnostic strategy means your company does not rely on a single cloud vendor but instead uses multiple vendors to ensure business continuity. In this article, we’ll review the benefits and drawbacks of this approach.
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Can data in Kubernetes become declarative, just like its infrastructure? Uri Zaidenwerg explores.
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The ease of using Kubernetes is a huge advantage for users, but it comes with its own set of challenges. What are some of the most common problems organizations face in their Kubernetes journey?
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Even though multicloud has many benefits, it is less popular among K8s users. What are the challenges K8s users are facing and how can they be resolved? Michael Greenberg explores in this post.
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Can standardization in Kubernetes apply to data as well? Is it possible to make data in Kubernetes declarative, just like the application layer? Michael Greenberg explores in this article.
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This guide will walk you through the process of deploying PostgreSQL on a Statehub registered Kubernetes cluster, using Statehub as a data service enabling cross-region and multicloud continuity.
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This guide walks you through the process of deploying a stateful Kafka cluster on a Kubernetes cluster, using the latest version of the Strimzi operator for simplifying Kafka management, with Statehub as a data service enabling cross-region and multicloud business continuity.
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This guide walks you through the process of deploying MongoDB with the MongoDB community guide operator on a Kubernetes cluster, using Statehub.
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This guide will walk you through the process of deploying WordPress with MySQL on a Statehub registered Kubernetes cluster, using Statehub as a data service enabling cross-region and multi-cloud continuity.
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By choosing to implement Statehub, WeSure was able to deploy a new configuration for its website and dramatically improve its performance. WeSure’s customers are now able to purchase and access insurance policies 24/7 via the company website, with a high availability configuration that enables business continuity and an excellent level of service.
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By choosing to implement Statehub, IoTen was able to save more than 94% on DR costs, prevent service inconsistency and assure MQTT message broker and AzureSQL resume operations together, and achieve unified cluster communication without networking and configuration setup.
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While Kubernetes is becoming the de-facto standard for container orchestration and management, it also has its shortcomings. According to the 2020 CNCF survey, the #1 challenge in K8s deployment is complexity. Why is Kubernetes complex to use and deploy and what are some best practices to handle its complexity? Uri Zaidenwerg explores these topics further in this article.
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Covid-19 catalyzed cloud adoption and increased the use of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. It also highlighted the need for resilient company operations, however, business continuity remains a challenge. We’ll explore the changes in the cloud market, and suggest possible solutions in the form of managed services for multi-region and multicloud environments.
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Setting up your business environment in multiple regions would assist with disaster recovery and business continuity. Unfortunately, the task of becoming cloud-agnostic is often too complex and prohibitively expensive to achieve for many organizations. Luckily, with the right tools, achieving multicloud and multi-region business continuity doesn’t have to be a difficult or expensive task.
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Kubernetes is becoming increasingly popular among developers looking to deploy stateful apps. K8s users have to confront the issue of what to do with their data. This blog will go through three critical criteria for any deployment: resilience, availability, and data security, and how it all relates to your application state.
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In the world of enterprise IT, there is no word scarier than downtime. When every bit of data counts, minimizing the cost of failures through meeting the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) is becoming a critical KPI for DevOps teams. In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of achieving Zero PRO in the public cloud and possible solutions.
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“Everything is data – you have to store it somewhere. The question is – who has the ability to control you through the ownership of data?” Our head of product, Michael Greenberg interviewed with Bill Doerrfeld about enabling successful stateful Kubernetes deployments. Read the full interview here
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By choosing Statehub, Doxi was able to significantly reduce expenses, and save 58,000 USD per year. They were also able to reduce setup time from 7 weeks to only 1 week. Doxi is now able to assure business continuity with zero RPO even in the case where an entire Azure region fails, or even if the public cloud fails, and has done so with a significant saving in expenses and labor hours.
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To achieve high availability in the public cloud, most cloud providers offer SLAs with a 99.999% uptime guarantee. For many applications, this arrangement is good enough. But when latency, availability, and control are critical, enterprises are still hesitant to move their workload to the cloud. And for a good reason – the cloud still has availability and assurance problems. Can Public Clouds Reach the Same Level of Availability as On-Prem SLAs?
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Kubernetes continues to lead the container surge and is truly becoming the de-facto way to deploy applications. However, when running stateful applications on K8s, it is likely to encounter storage and data challenges. Are the existing solutions in the market sufficient?
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IT operators need to know they don’t need to be bound to only one cloud offering. They can operate with more control of their data by utilizing options that allow for data flexibility and portability across multiple clouds. Here we discuss how to achieve operational freedom in the public cloud.
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With increasing automation and growing prominence of Kubernetes and managed services, is is time to rethink the role of DevOps engineers?
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If ensuring data resiliency and durability across multiple regions is your job, then Zero Recovery Point Objective (Zero RPO) should be on top of your wish list. How can Zero RPO benefit your operations and is it technically possible to get your RPO to Zero?
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