According to Forrester, 58 percent of developers have reported that their companies are either currently using containers or plan to use containers within the next year. However, in a survey by CNCF, 43 percent say security in enterprise adoption of containers is a huge challenge. We are assuming this challenge has arisen due to a […]

Gone are the days of staring at IIS (Internet Information Services) to figure out why your web app wont work. Instead, in a matter of seconds, you can pull an …

Looking for a Getting Started With Elk Stack (“Elastic Stack”) guide that shows how to set up the Elastic Stack and get up and running quickly? We’ve referenced the official Elk Guide to help you get started.  First you’ll install the core products: Elasticsearch Kibana Beats Logstash (optional) Then you learn how to implement a […]

What is the ELK Stack? Up until a year or two ago, the ELK Stack was a collection of three open-source products. “ELK” is the acronym for: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server‑side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and […]

Air Gapped DevSecOps? Our customers have situations where they need to deploy software on private, often extremely secure environments. These organizations are now looking to take advantage of Kubernetes and modernize their applications, while enabling deploying these on different environments, that are often not connected to the outside world. There are several factors and challenges […]

As Brands Approach the IoT Era And Battle To Keep Their Data Safe, Cloud Computing Is Becoming A Key Piece of the Puzzle. Why The Cloud?  Adopting cloud architecture still sounds like a futuristic move. But in fact, most brands have already unknowingly made the switch from on-premise to cloud. Meanwhile, there’s a whole bunch […]

  CNCF Spotlight: The Top 5 Cloud-Native Projects That We Love comes hot on the heels of of our announcement as a CNCF partner (link here in case you missed it), we wanted to talk about some of our favorite CNCF projects right now. We will be posting a more in depth blog on each […]

AlphaBravo – CNCF and Linux Foundation Member. We are proud to announce our membership into The Linux Foundation and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).  We are excited to promote and give back into the amazing projects that the CNCF is entrusted with maintaining. The CNCF builds sustainable ecosystems and fosters communities to support the […]

What is Prometheus? Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud. Prometheus joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016 as the second hosted project, after Kubernetes. It boils down to this, Prometheus does one thing and it does it well. It has a simple yet powerful data model and […]

Kubernetes has become the gold standard for container orchestration. However, when it comes to running stateful applications, it needs to access a number of dependencies and operative tasks in order for it to function properly. As you can imagine, when doing this with thousands of containers, this is time-consuming and takes up a lot of […]