Most tools designed to help you manage your systems fall into two categories: finders, such as monitoring services and log file analyzers, or fixers, such as cloud infrastructure providers or container orchestration. It's up to you to translate information from your finders into actions for your fixers. Cliff Crocker explains how to use intelligent analytics to connect data to actions.

Kubernetes is an orchestration platform that enables running distributed systems, which are designed with the philosophy of spreading wide to best prepare for outages. This is achieved by deploying yo …

Kubernetes has yet to close the developer gap from source code to app running in a production Kubernetes cluster. Many build bespoke tools. How can the Kubernetes community come together to build deco …

Distributed databases can make so many things easier for a developer… but not always for DevOps. OK, almost never for DevOps. Kubernetes has come to the rescue with an easy application orchestrati …

Today, the Oath Media Brands and Products container platform is serving critical application workloads like Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at a large scale using Kubernetes as the orchestration framew …

While Kubernetes continues to gain in popularity for cloud applications, many organizations run popular frameworks deployed on Mesos. The need to support multiple orchestration frameworks can result i …

Helm is emerging as a standard for Kubernetes application packaging. While researching it we discovered that its orchestration part can be improved. We did just that by injecting AppController right i …

Container orchestration has simplified application deployment with common tools across infrastructure providers, but tools for the environment running a container orchestration system tend to be more deeply coupled to cloud providers. Bill Farner and David Chung offer an overview of InfraKit, which provides tools for infrastructure automation of self-healing, self-managing systems.

Service graphs allow users to define business logic requirements and workflows, enabling them to arrange cloud functions to execute in sequence or concurrently and handle scaling to accommodate varying event load. Cathy Zhang explains how service graphs address the challenge of creating and managing microservice applications.

Much of the conversation about containers these days has shifted to container automation using powerful orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. Vincent Batts discusses the evolution of various container runtimes and interoperability and explores the current state of container standards, as well as where and how containers will continue to innovate.