Hello from all of us here at
Sysdig! After the great comments and feedback we are doing it again: a newsletter to share the latest happenings in the container ecosystem across vendors and open source projects like Docker, Kubernetes, DC/OS Mesos, Openshift, etc.
We hope you enjoy this! Ping us at
@sysdig or on our open source slack group
#sysdig to share anything you feel we should include here, we are looking forward your contributions!
DOCKER
What’s new in Docker 1.13
You probably read 10 different articles on what’s new in Docker 1.13. If not,
this is the most complete one, or at least the one we liked more so far!
A container networking overview
One of the hardest things to understand about all this newfangled
container stuff is – what is even going on with the networking? Julia Evans explains it for us here.
Netflix releases Conductor
Netflix keeps open sourcing the software they use for running
containers on AWS, after Titus and Fenzo they come with Conductor: an orchestration engine that runs in the cloud.
Yahoo releases Screwdriver.cd
Yahoo is also on the
container bandwagon, and released Screwdriver.cd, a build system to enable Continuous Delivery at scale for dynamic infrastructure.
Why Lambda and serverless won’t kill Docker
Should Docker fear FaaS and serverless? A discussion on
why there is place for both in modern enterprises.
RAFT explained
Reaching consensus in an asynchronous distributed system is one of the most tricky parts. RAFT is the algorithm used by Docker Swarm between others. This is a detailed explanation on
how it works.
Can we use containers to deploy storage?
These are the approaches the ecosystem is taking into
using containers to build up storage blocks.
KUBERNETES
AWS BLOX vs Kubernetes
Last month Amazon released BLOX, a set of tools for ECS to built your own schedulers, like Netflix has done. But,
how does it compare with Kubernetes?
eBay’s TessMaster to bring together Kubernetes and Openstack
We see all the big tech corporations releasing their infrastructure software. eBay is doing the same with their software
TessMaster, a management framework to deploy Kubernetes on top of Openstack.
How Disney is realizing the multi-cloud promise of Kubernetes
Disney ops team presented at KubeCon how they are
using Kubernetes across multiple providers while still connected to their network.
Kubernetes Deployment Options
There are multiple ways to deploy Kubernetes: kubeadm, kops,
containers, etc. This presentation summarizes them all.
Kubernetes trends
We found these two interesting Kubernetes user surveys to understand how people out there use it:
Container Management Trends and
Kubernetes UX survey.
Deploy a Highly Available WordPress instance as a StatefulSet in Kubernetes 1.5
Practical on-hands article into
stateful workloads in Kubernetes 1.5 with WordPress as the usual suspect example app.
OPEN SHIFT
Openshift 3.4 released!
The
new version of Openshift brings a bunch of new features including storage provisioning and support for storage classes, scheduler improvements, etc. Exciting!
DC/OS MESOS
The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale
Twitter is one of the biggest Mesos users out there. This is
an extensive discussion of the challenges they faced building their infrastructure.
DC/OS 101 tutorial
Considering DC/OS? Do you think it might be too complex to start with? They have published a
DC/OS 101 tutorial to help you take the first steps.
Also From our Blog
On Monoliths, Kubernetes, and Monitoring: Transitioning to Docker at Major League Soccer.
Understanding how Kubernetes DNS Services work.
SYSDIG
High interaction honeypots with Sysdig and Falco
Leveraging Sysdig and Falco to quickly set up, monitor and investigate
high interaction honeypots.
Troubleshooting Docker and Kubernetes
How to use Sysdig to troubleshoot network, DNS and
container creation issues in Kubernetes, real issues we experienced ourselves.
Monitoring Openshift with Sysdig Cloud
A walk through of how Sysdig Cloud provides
visibility of projects, services and containers on Red Hat Openshift. If you are interested in both, we are holding
a webinar with Red Hat on February 9th.
Kubernetes helps Comcast re-engineer Cable TV
Comcast is one of our Sysdig Cloud customers, they presented
how they use Kubernetes at KubeCon.