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2 months ago | 
lxer.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols |Rak Siva |Charles Humble |Sijie Guo
Programmers love the best and newest releases. Businesses? Not so much. They want stability. So it shouldn’t have been much of a surprise that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux‘s parent company, has unveiled its Kubernetes Long Term Support (LTS) offering, which provides an unprecedented 12 years of support. For example, the most recent Canonical Kubernetes release, 1.32, will be supported until 2037.
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2 months ago | 
lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Rak Siva |Charles Humble |Sijie Guo
Have you ever wondered why more people don’t use the likes of AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream or Rocky Linux as a desktop operating system? After all, those distributions are rock solid and very secure. Doesn’t that sound like the makings for an ideal desktop OS? Nah. Okay, yeah, it does … but that doesn’t mean people are going to use it as such. Why? Complication.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva
Cloud platforms are far more similar than many realize. And they are also far more similar to nature’s evolutionary processes than most know. In nature, convergent evolution describes how unrelated species independently develop similar traits to solve common problems. One of the most well-known examples is the evolution of wings in birds, bats and insects.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva
Cloud SDKs like AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure SDKs are often deeply embedded in application code. While this simplifies direct interaction with cloud resources, it also creates significant friction between development and operations teams. Cloud SDKs provide runtime functionality for specific resources within your application code. Unfortunately, in an effort to offer more convenience to developers, they also require provisioning details to be supplied within the application code itself.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva
Fix Cloud App Documentation with Continuous Updatessponsor-nitric,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from LALAKA on Shutterstock. Internal documentation is boring. It shouldn’t be — we all know that it’s extremely critical to our way of life as engineers — but it just is. The dilemma is that we suffer on both sides of the documentation fence: We don’t enjoy writing it, and it infuriates us when we receive poor documentation.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
No Terraform, No IaC? Are You Looking for Disaster? sponsor-nitric,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from Gorodenkoff on Shutterstock. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has provided an established pathway to the cloud, bringing scale, security and stability to infrastructure configuration and management. At the same time, its offering of comprehensive, fine-grained control means it’s complex to implement and prone to introducing bottlenecks to application development teams.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
Platform Teams: Automate Infrastructure Requirement Gatheringsponsor-nitric,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from GoodStudio on Shutterstock. One of the most challenging issues in application development is the disconnect between development and operations teams. Communication challenges quite easily lead to misaligned expectations and broken deployments.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
Your Platform Engineering Toolkit for Terraform and Beyondsponsor-nitric,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from Michael Traitov on ShutterstockBuilding a platform engineering toolkit tailored to your organization’s unique needs is a formidable challenge, whether you’re starting from scratch or piecing together existing materials and processes. What’s in your toolkit?
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
Maximizing Terraform Modules for Platform Engineeringsponsor-nitric,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from AofLine on Shutterstock. Terraform modules encapsulate complex configurations into reusable, manageable components. Many teams use these modules to streamline infrastructure management, significantly boosting productivity.
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May 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rak Siva |Asmitha Rathis |Jeffrey Hausman |Chris Preimesberger
Infrastructure from Code (IfC) is gaining significant interest and sparking conversations among developers and DevOps professionals alike. As organizations strive for greater efficiency and automation in their deployment processes, the appeal of IfC lies in its promise to streamline infrastructure provisioning by automatically inferring the necessary resources from application code.
