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RX-M Announces First CKS Boot Camp Training Course at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 17, 2020) – RX-M, a leading cloud native technology training and consulting firm, has announced that registration is now open for the first-of-its-kind Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) training course. CKS certification signifies an individual’s “competence across a broad range of best practices for securing container-based applications and Kubernetes platforms during building,…
Read MoreWebinar: K8s Audit Logging Deep Dive
RX-M’s Randy Abernethy, presents “K8s Audit Logging Deep Dive” in a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Member Webinar. In this webinar, we take a look at some of the real world issues that arise when seeking to implement comprehensive, efficient, and secure Kubernetes auditing. How do you use this powerful tool when you have to…
Read MoreNew Release: Kubernetes for Data Scientists with Spark Training
RX-M is proud to announce its new Kubernetes for Data Scientists with Spark course, which is designed to provide working data scientists with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes and its use in data intensive applications. Topics include: common analytics and data processing pod design patterns, Spark scheduling, Machine Learning operations and more. Best practices are covered…
Read MoreZero Downtime Deployments: Controlling Application Rollouts and Rollbacks
RX-M’s Christopher Hanson had the honor of being a speaker at the first virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon for Europe 2020. Kubernetes controllers provide features that can give zero-downtime rolling updates. In this talk, Chris runs through a series of demos with stateless and stateful applications to show how behaviors change with the controller. If you…
Read MoreWebinar: Zero Trust Services in Kubernetes
RX-M’s Randy Abernethy, presents “Zero Trust Services in Kubernetes” in a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Member Webinar. In this webinar, we take a look at some of the most important techniques used to create Zero Trust services in a Kubernetes environment. This talk will cover concepts ranging from container image hardening to pod specification…
Read MoreSetting Effective CPU and Memory Limits for your K8s Apps
Deploying a microservice on K8s is easy; keeping a microservice running is another story. Without your help, Kubernetes cannot know an app’s resource requirements. Unattributed apps are likely to get evicted from one node after another. This talk, from February’s San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup, delves into several techniques for effectively sizing pod resources, keeping apps…
Read MoreInstrumenting Microservices for K8s – How to Make Your Apps Optimally Operational
Microservices need an operational tune-up in order to perform their best on Kubernetes. This talk, given at the San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup in February, dives into the essential additions needed for highly-efficient microservice deployments on Kubernetes. Randy covers liveness probes, readiness probes, open metrics, logging necessities, and traceability, as well as best practices and strategies…
Read MoreHow do you handle special pod startup needs with Init Containers?
Init containers run when a pod is first initialized. Their job is to run bootstrapping tasks before a pod’s primary application container runs. Init containers are great for separating preparation steps from operations. They run in sequence, each one completing their assigned task before the next init container or any application container runs. If any…
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