As the major Linux distributors increasingly lean toward containers, many administrators have come to realize that containers are by no means a panacea for all their problems.
You can have your cake and eat it, too: MicroVMs feature the strong isolation of virtual machines and lightweight behaviors of containers.
What a user is allowed to do in a program is usually defined by a role model, which often poses numerous challenges, especially in the cloud or for infrastructure as code. The free Open Policy Agent offers a flexible way to manage user rights.
Teleport centrally manages logins against various protocols, including SSH, Kubernetes, and databases. Functions such as two-factor authentication are included in the scope of delivery, as is management of your own certificates.
The Rancher lightweight alternative to Red Hat's OpenShift gives admins a helping hand when entering the world of Kubernetes, but with major differences in architecture.
Multipass lets you launch and run Ubuntu virtual machines, use cloud-init to configure the VMs, and prototype cloud launches locally in minutes.
We look at the benefits of Kubernetes outside of large corporate environments.
YAML is often the language of choice when configuring complex environments. We help you get started with YAML and the YAML parser yq.
When Kubernetes needs to scale applications, it searches for free nodes that meet a container's CPU and main memory requirements; however, when the existing hardware is at full capacity, the Kubernetes Cluster Federation project (KubeFed) takes the pain out of adding clusters.
A Helm chart is a template of several parts that defines, deploys, and upgrades Kubernetes apps and can be considered the standard package manager in the Kubernetes world.
