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DNS and Certificates made simple for Kubernetes

DNS and Certificates made simple for Kubernetes

One of the challenges with demonstrating what you have done in Kubernetes is directing others to your application in a secure manner. This typically involves you having to create a DNS entry and requesting a certificate. Two projects, external-dns and cert-manager, respectively, are making it much easier to automate this process and hide the complexities from developers. Both projects are under active development (with commits in the last few hours or days) and a lot of interest (thousands of stars on GitHub).

You Will Love These Cloud-native App Architecture Patterns

You Will Love These Cloud-native App Architecture Patterns

VMworld last week continued 2020’s atypical tech world tradition of offering all its sessions virtually. That format definitely makes the audience transition from session room to session room much quicker and easier. But for those of us tracking our physical activity we earn many, many fewer steps! 

This year’s conference offered the usual, very broad selection of sessions. They addressed all the new offerings and features and trends in VMware’s huge portfolio of products and offerings. In my opinion, as an application solution techie geek, the fundamental transition of vSphere to an orchestrated container platform based on Kubernetes (demystified in App Modernization ) was far and away the most interesting track of the conference. The architect in me votes hands-down that Paul Czarkowski’s session, Cloud Native Operations on Kubernetes, was the best presentation of the conference. No question it’s worth an hour of your time!