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A Briefer History of Argo Project from the Founding Engineers
Argo is a popular open-source project that helps engineers unleash the full power of Kubernetes and significantly increase productivity. The project consists of four main products that focus on various use cases and together comprise a powerful application delivery platform. The
A Visual Guide on Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments
Troubleshooting in Kubernetes can be daunting if you don't know where to start. I attached a visual guide to help you troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments. It covers:🔹 Connecting Deployment and Service🔹 Connecting Service and Ingress🔹 Troubleshooti
Advertising IoT Devices as Extended Resources in Kubernetes w/ Akri
Kubernetes is powerfully declarative. When deploying a Pod, you can specify memory and CPU resource limits, so your application will have all the resources it needs. A few years ago, Kubernetes created the Device Plugin framework to allow other resources to be requested. It was c
Architecting your Stack: Why Video Platform, Mux, Went All in on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is hard, so making the decision to run it on your own, in a multi-cloud environment may seem like a bold choice. At Mux, it's a choice we've made to help power our Video API and quality of experience analytics, and it's served us well. At this meetup, Ad
Automate Microservice to API by using Kubernetes Operator Pattern
The recent constraints on businesses have pushed organizations to accelerate their plans for moving operations to the digital world—often shrinking timelines from years to months to weeks. Microservices architecture (MSA) is critical to accomplish fast innovation, and the AP
CASE STUDY: Building a Data Warehouse solution on AWS Redshift
Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park,Illinois, United State ZELAR ROLE IN PROJECT The project involved building a data warehouse solution on Cloud (Amazon Redshift) and building various ETL layer
Building an Application-centric Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Scale
Building an Application-centric Kubernetes Platform for Enterprise Scale, w/ Todd Ekenstam of Intuit, and our host will be Michael Bowen of BlackRock. 📅 Date: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 - 2:30 pm EST) Over the past se
Building an end-to-end CICD pipeline using AzureDevOps for the customer's product development,deployment and maintenance.
CELITO works on optimizing technology & data use at life key imperatives -Executive IT IT science companies with a focus on Management, Strategic Roadmap, Optimizing Technology use & management of GxP Systems ZELAR ROLE IN PROJECT Zelarsoft is an Implementation & Strategic Partne
Building and running a world-class observability function
Observability teams as a centralized function within SRE or IT Operations are a relatively recent phenomenon. These teams are responsible for managing the monitoring and observability toolset and empowering developer and engineering teams to push the right data into the systems t
CASE STUDY: A Robust DevOps Implementation for a web application
CaratRED develop customized software, build data warehouses, deliver insights and create exciting content. ZELAR ROLE IN PROJECT CaratRed was having a typical manual deploying method for their Interfaces on various environments. CaratRed needs a solution for an automatic deployme
CNCF Incubating projects showcase: NATS, Thanos and Flux
In this showcase event, we will be discussing the value proposition, key features, and latest updates on the following popular incubating projects. 🔶 NATS.io: https://nats.io/Colin Sullivan, Product Manager (Synadia)NATS is a connective technology built for the ever in
Data Consolidation and Business Intelligence at A LeadingCompany
ABOUT CLIENTAs a leading entity in real estate financing, our client has been a beacon of innovation and success, funding over $1 billion in loans. Their astute investment strategies and robust financial services have etched their name as a powerhouse in the real estate domain. Z
Developed a new web application using React tostreamline the deployment of multiple Firebase projectsfor Cloudwerx Customer
CloudWerx is an engineering-focused cloud consulting company that provides the most elite tech resources to solve the toughest challenges. ZELAR ROLE IN PROJECT The Zelarsoft team was consulted to design and develop a web application to trigger their firebase deployments from one
Empowering Women's Health with Cloud Data Integrationand Analytics
ABOUT CLIENT Client has redefined women'shealthcare by offering comprehensiveservices from obstetrics andgynaecology to specialized fibroidtreatments. Their affiliation with toptier institutions like Mount SinaiHospital underscores the commitmentto excellence. ZELAR ROLE IN PROJE
Enhancing Carrier Retention and Load Matching: A LookerPowered Transformation
ABOUT THE CLIENT The client is a drayage marketplace that links freelance carriers, including owner-operators and small fleets, with various customers. They manage the equilibrium between customer demand and the availability of carriers in specific geographic regions, ensuring th
Event Driven and Cloud Native Systems: Solving the interoperability puzzle
CloudEvents is a CNCF backed specification for describing event data in a common way that makes sense for enterprises. In this Meetup, Rajesh Iyer will deep dive into this new spec and looks into how CloudEvents can simplify event declaration and delivery across services, platfor
Events first: cloud-native patterns beyond request/response
Going cloud-native is about how we design our applications, not just how we deploy them — and one key choice in distributed systems design is how our applications interact with each other. Request/response-based protocols are ubiquitous in software today, but the industry is
GitOps and Progressive Delivery with Flux, Istio, and Flagger
Having in our minds the very high level of service expected by our customers, we were urged to build our architecture as resilient and reliable as we could. That brought us many challenges, from scalability to observability, from multi-cluster and multi-region deployments to mana
GitOps on Kubernetes: Deciding Between Argo CD and Flux
Argo CD and Flux both have their uses, and both are pretty well maintained and have active communities. Similarities:🔹 Secrets Management🔹 Webhook Receivers🔹 Alerting and Notifications🔹 Image Updates Automation Differences:🔸
GitOps One-Stop Shop Event!
⭐️ ⭐️ This is a cross promotional post from the GitOps Community Meetup Group ⭐️ ⭐️ (https://www.meetup.com/GitOps-Community) Please register in advance at www.gitopsdays.com or via zoom:https://weaveworks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBK5tO
Integrate OPA (Open Policy Agent) with Istio & Styra DAS
In this blog, you will learn how OPA embedded in the Istio data plane can be used as an authorization service to enforce security policies over API requests received by Istio. What is Istio? Istio is an open-source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed
Integrating Kong Mesh with Styra DAS
In this blog, you will learn how to add a policy in Styra DAS to Integrate Kong Mesh With Styra DAS. What Is Kong Mesh? Kong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh that runs on both Kubernetes and VMs on any cloud. Built on top of CNCF's Kuma and Envoy and focused on simpl
Integrating Kubernetes with Styra DAS – Enforcing users to create pods in the default namespace.
In this article, you will learn how to enforce users to create pods by default Kubernetes namespace using OPA and Styra DAS. Pre-requisites: Styra-DAS Account (You can sign-up and create a free Styra DAS account here)Kubernetes cluster (You can create a Kubernetes cluster using K
Integrating Kuma with Styra DAS
In this blog, you will learn how to install Kuma on a Kubernetes cluster and add ingress policies in Styra DAS to integrate Kuma with Styra DAS. What is Kuma? Kuma is a platform-agnostic open-source control plane for service mesh and microservices management, with support for Kub
Integrating OPA With Envoy on Styra DAS
Styra DAS: The Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS), built on top of the open-source project Open Policy Agent (OPA), provides a single pane of glass for authorization and policy across the cloud-native ecosystem of software systems. Using the DAS allows you to use a sin
Integration of Envoy with OPA and Styra DAS
In this blog, you will learn how to add a policy in Styra DAS to Integrate Envoy with OPA and Styra. OPA (Open Policy Agent): The Open Policy Agent (OPA, pronounced 'oh-pa') is an open-source, general-purpose policy engine that unifies policy enforcement across the stac
Introduction to Kubernetes Components and K8s Architecture
When you have hundreds to thousands of containers serving a lot of microservices, K8s allows you to monitor and manage (orchestrate) all those containers in an easy way allowing fault-tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery, and high performance. There are two ways to int
MOVING TO THE CLOUD – Unlearning Modern Techniques
In the times during and after the pandemic, technology is driving change. Businesses are forced to reinvent themselves to be relevant. Cloud-native technologies make scaling easier, deployments faster, and computing costs lower. In this meetup, Kevin Hoffman, Distinguished Engine
Not Your Grandma Gossip: Node Failure Detection at Scale
Several distributed protocols are predicated on a large number of nodes relying on each other to complete transactions; for example, highly durable persistence storage depends on data being replicated several times across nodes: while this improves the system's resilience to
OPA, Styra and Terraform: protect your cloud
Introduction to Styra DAS: Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS), built on top of the open-source project Open Policy Agent (OPA), provides a single pane of glass for authorization and policy across the cloud-native ecosystem of software systems. Using the DAS allows you
OPA to Integrate with Kubernetes Admission Control → Ingresses: Restrict Hostnames
What Is OPA? It is a project that started in 2016 to unify policy enforcement across different technologies and systems. Today, OPA is used by giant players within the tech industry. For example, Netflix uses OPA to control its internal API resources. Chef uses it to provide IAM
Open Policy Agent: What Is OPA and How It Works (Examples)
Open Policy Agent is an open-source engine that provides a way of declaratively writing policies as code and then using those policies as part of a decision-making process. OPA can be used for several purposes:🔹 Authorization of REST API endpoints.🔹 Allowing
Project Showcase w/ KEDA, DAPR, SPIRE, CONTOUR & MORE
# CNCF Incubating Project Showcase w/ KEDA, DAPR, SPIRE, CONTOUR & More Confirmed projects so far are KEDADaprSPIREContour Event Details: ZOOM WEBINAR LINK: https://www.meetup.com/cloudnativescale/ Date & Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 10:30 PM to Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 12:00 A
Scaling Kubernetes across BlackRock's Aladdin Platform
📅 Date: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 - 2:30 pm EST) BlackRock has always pushed technical boundaries and innovation to deliver asset management capabilities to clients through the investment and risk management platform,
Scaling Observability: GRAFANA LABS, POLAR SIGNALS, & PIXIE LABS
Tales from the front lines of scaling observability panel discussion w/ GRAFANA LABS, POLAR SIGNALS, & PIXIE LABS 📅 Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 - 2:30 pm EST)📺Venue: Zoom Webinar Speakers: 🔶 Jo
Security & Compliance Showcase w/ FALCO, KYNERO, CURIEFENSE, & MORE
CNCF Security & Compliance Product Showcase w/ FALCO, KYNERO, CURIEFENSE, & MORE This meetup will look at some of the most popular security and compliance projects under the CNCF umbrella. These tools can help teams apply policy management, check CVEs, ensure regulatory complianc
Security & Policy Configurations for Infrastructure as Code
When you use cloud infrastructure, you might find yourself accidentally applying a configuration for an open storage bucket, unencrypted queue, or unrestricted access control. At worst, these misconfigurations can be exploited by bad actors. At best, they get duplicated across an
Shared components in a Cloud-Native world
Engineering orgs aim to create the thinnest viable platform to reduce the cognitive load on their dev teams. The role of a TVP is critical if you want to scale your team, abstract 'meaningful' components with libraries and ship security patches to production in a breeze
Streamlining Business Collaboration: A Case Study of GoogleWorkspace to Microsoft 365 Migration
About Company Customer is a leading health care provider, had been using Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) for several years. While Google Workspace provided basic collaboration functionalities such as email, document sharing, and video conferencing, the company found itself fa
Streamlining Data Pipelines for Enhanced E-CommerceOperation
ABOUT CLIENT The client, a prominent international e-commerce giant, navigates a complex data landscape, managing vast data critical to its operations and decision-making processes. The data, stored in Google Sheets and BigQuery, required intricate transformations to reach its fi
Styra DAS, OPA, and Envoy Integration Give You Fine-Grained Access Control Over Microservice API Authorization.
What is Envoy? Envoy is an L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service-oriented architectures. Envoy supports an External Authorization filter which calls an authorization service to check if the incoming request is authorized or not. This feature makes it po
SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY: Securing Integrity of Software Supply Chains
📅 Date: Tuesday, March 8th, 2021📍 Time: 10 am PST to 11:30 am PST (1:00 - 2:30 pm EST) Securing a software supply chain is a complex task. There are many moving parts, external dependencies, difficulties to ensure all holes are plugged tight and sometimes it
Tales from the Branches – GitOps in the Real World
Panel Discussion: Tales from the Branches - GitOps in the Real World This panel discussion will explore GitOps from an end-user perspective, discussing what works as well as the new challenges GitOps creates. If your organization is considering a move to a GitOps model, this pane
[Talk #13] Where's my container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey
GitOps has become the de facto approach for enabling simple, secure, and auditable deployments. However, when you deploy to multiple Kubernetes clusters, knowing where your services are in the GitOps journey can be challenging. It can be almost impossible to track permutations of
[Talk #14] Observability showcase: Jaeger, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry
In this showcase event, we will be discussing the value proposition, key features, and latest updates on the following popular Observability projects. 🔶 [Speaker 1] Jaeger: https://www.jaegertracing.io/Joe Elliott, Principal Engineer @ Grafana LabsJoe Elliott has been
[Talk #16] Helm + Flux: Feature Showcase & Demo
Martin Hickey (Helm maintainer) and Scott Rigby (Helm and Flux maintainer) present a feature showcase and demos of both Helm and Flux, reasons for the overwhelming community use of Helm for application packaging and deployment on k8s, and how Helm is extended by Flux for teams mo
[Talk #17] Open source ELK with OpenSearch
In this talk, we will explain the background and history of ELK and how open source is changing for the worse. This is very relevant to the users of CNCF projects and how it will impact the technologies they use. We will go into detail about the OpenSearch community, contributors
[Talk #18] Firecracker + Liquid Metal: Intros & Edge Use Case
Come see how Firecracker and Liquid Metal can be used to get the most out of your bare-metal and transform your edge or data-centre. We'll start by covering Firecracker, the engine powering the AWS Lambda & Fargate service, a technology with security, isolation and efficienc
[Talk #19] Taming microservices through an evolved DevOps Pipeline
Microservices are a critical part of the overall Cloud-Native journey. They are key to achieving the promise of agility that this modern platform offers. The problem with microservices is that they are a major disruption to how we design, develop and release software. In addition
[Talk#15] The Power of Three: Flux, Flagger, & Linkerd
Join us for this exciting event where you'll get an overview and update on CNCF Projects Flux and Flagger (Incubating), and Linkerd (Graduated), then see the power of three when these projects are combined (in a live demo) to offer a robust and automated GitOps experience!
The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
Future distributed systems on Kubernetes will be composed of multiple runtimes. The business logic forms the application's core, and sidecar 'mecha' components offer robust out-of-the-box distributed primitives. What about what comes after microservices? According to Bilgin Ibr