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KubeCon Europe 2021 Wrapup

The event formally known as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 – Virtual was held online from May 5-7. This was my third straight virtual KubeCon and I enjoyed it a lot.

May 12, 2021  ·  16 min read

jsPolicy Launch Video

We’re very excited to announce our new open source tool for managing policies in Kubernetes called jsPolicy. Watch this YouTube video for more info and a demo, or read the transcript below if you prefer.

May 7, 2021  ·  7 min read

Improving Developer Productivity with DevSpace

What makes developers happy and productive? If you talk to people who work in the tech industry, they will likely all have opinions on it, but there’s no clear, shared definition of developer productivity.

Apr 28, 2021  ·  7 min read

Meet Rich Burroughs

Hi, I’m Rich Burroughs, and I’ve just joined Loft Labs as a Senior Developer Advocate. I’m very excited to be here, and I’d like to share a bit about why I joined the team.

Apr 5, 2021  ·  3 min read

Kubernetes Probes: Startup, Liveness, Readiness

Kubernetes has been disruptive due to the scalability, velocity, portability, and observability it adds to cloud deployments. While it brings a whole ecosystem of great features and options and eases complex deployment, it also has its own challenges.

Feb 15, 2021  ·  7 min read

Kubernetes Startup Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes brought an excellent deployment platform to work on. Even monolithic applications can be run in a container. For some of these monolithic applications and for some microservices, a slow start is a problem.

Feb 9, 2021  ·  6 min read

Kubernetes Liveness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes has disrupted traditional deployment methods and has become very popular. Although it is a great platform to deploy to, it brings complexity and challenges as well.

Feb 2, 2021  ·  7 min read

Kubernetes Readiness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes is a great platform to deploy our microservices and applications to. One of the excellent features is that pods are restarted or removed from a service when they don’t work correctly.

Jan 11, 2021  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes CRDs = Huge Pain In Multi-Tenant Clusters

Kubernetes multi-tenancy provides a number of business and technical advantages over single-tenant clusters. However, multi-tenancy also brings several challenges and pain points with it, one of which is handling Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs).

Dec 9, 2020  ·  9 min read

Kubernetes: Why Boring Clusters Are Better Clusters

The Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem has become very complex over time. The best illustration for this is probably the CNCF Landscape that currently contains about 1,500 cards.

Nov 11, 2020  ·  7 min read

Why Everyone Builds Internal Kubernetes Platforms

Recently, you might have heard about “internal Kubernetes platforms” from many different sources: KubeCon talks, blog articles, or just colleagues and friends. Even if such platforms are not always called internal Kubernetes platforms, solutions that allow engineers to get a standardized and easy Kubernetes access in a cloud environment seem to become more common now.

Oct 14, 2020  ·  12 min read

Virtual Kubernetes Clusters In Production

The idea of virtual Kubernetes clusters (vClusters) is to spin up a fully-functional cluster within another Kubernetes clusters to provide an efficient abstraction and direct Kubernetes access on top of a shared underlying cluster.

Oct 7, 2020  ·  7 min read