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Status and Conditions: Explained!

How to interpret the status and conditions fields in Kubernetes resources

Bring on the Chaos!

Exploring Chaos Mesh and how it can be used to improve Kubernetes cluster resilience.

From Helm Operator to Go Controller

Helm-operator is easy, but what do you do when you need more from your controller? It's time to migrate to Kubebuilder and write your controller in Go.

Managing Slurm at Scale

Taking an in-depth look at Slurm configuration, provisioning, and management so that you can build and manage your own clusters

Scaling Smarter: Instant Nodes, Zero Wait

Learn how to optimize Kubernetes autoscaling with overprovisioning and KEDA, keeping your infrastructure ready for traffic spikes without burning cash on idle servers.

Improving Innovation and Compliance for Fintechs with Service Mesh

Service mesh offers a path to addressing observability, zero-trust, and scale challenges for Fintechs while meeting stringent compliance requirements

Assembling the GKE AI Hypercomputer Blueprint

Utilizing the Google AI Hypercomputer blueprints to enable highly efficient access to the latest Google hardware for the most critical ML workloads.

Tackling Type Tetris for Server Side Apply

Exploring the server side apply types in the client-go SDK to build a better understanding of how to build update statements using this mechanism.

Slurm: An HPC Workload Manager

What it is, why it exists, and how it differs from Kubernetes.

A Hands-on Deep Dive into
AWS Auth and Kubernetes

An in-depth exploration of the primary options that you have to authenticate and authorize AWS resources to talk to your EKS Kubernetes cluster and vice versa.

Tackling GPU Underutilization in Kubernetes Runtimes

Make sure you're using your valuable GPUs to the fullest.

Calico iptables vs. eBPF: Benchmarking the differences

A brief explanation of Calico, its dataplanes, and analyzing its differences with science!

Advanced Usage of the NVIDIA Device Plugin

Manage the NVIDIA Device Plugin through understanding common troubleshooting techniques, exploring GPU sharing strategies, and considering the limitations of the current tooling.

Accelerating Machine Learning with GPUs in Kubernetes using the NVIDIA Device Plugin

NVIDIA Device Plugin for Kubernetes plays a crucial role in enabling organizations to harness the power of GPUs for accelerating machine learning workloads.

A Case Study of Fleets of Clusters with Cluster API Provider AWS (CAPA)

A tutorial on bootstrapping CAPI+CAPA and creating managed clusters!

Cluster API: A Deep Dive On Declarative Cluster Lifecycle Management

An overview of the Cluster API architecture and how it can be a better solution for managing large numbers of clusters at scale.

SuperOrbital interviewed on the Changelog at KubeCon

Tammer and James joined Solomon Hykes, Steve Francis, and Spencer Smith in talking with Adam, Jerod and Gerhard at the Changelog.

Kubernetes Fleet Capabilities: What makes a fleet?

Exploring the landscape of Kubernetes fleet management products

Kubernetes Cluster Fleets: From Pet to Cattle

Exploring the ideal pathway for platform adoption of Kubernetes cluster fleets

Announcing the Buildkite Agent Stack for Kubernetes

SuperOrbital works with Buildkite to deliver an autoscaling agent stack for Kubernetes.

Building Custom Providers with the new Terraform Plugin Framework

Extend Terraform to easily support custom APIs in your environment.

Debugging Cilium Envoy Upstream Connection Failures

Utilizing the tools in the Cilium ecosystem to identify and diagnose connection failures

Google, Users and Terraform

Using Google and Terraform to help manage users and groups in multiple services.

Testing Production Kubernetes Controllers

Learn all about Kubernetes controllers in our Programming Kubernetes workshop!

Crossplane Case Study

What is Crossplane, where does it excel, where does it fall down, how does it compare to Terraform, and how can you use it today?

Zero to GitOps: Terraform and the AWS EKS Blueprints Project

Using Terraform to spin up pre-wired Kubernetes and ArgoCD instances in AWS

Prometheus, Istio, and mTLS: the definitive explanation

How to properly combine Istio observability, mTLS, and Prometheus service discovery.

Hunting Down an Intermittent Failure in Cilium

The story behind how our team diagnosed, identified, and help resolve a rather tricky intermittent bug.

An Onramp to Supply Chain Security

Take the first steps toward securing your software supply chain with Sigstore.

Introducing wordchain

A flexible Go application & library for generating random or deterministic word sequences

Evaluating Kubernetes Behavior during Resource Exhaustion

Through experiment and diagnostics, determine appropriate Kubernetes settings to manage workloads during outages

Preparing for the CKA in 2021

A list of tips & tricks to help you successfully prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam.

Announcing two new workshops!

Our new Istio and Containers Demystified workshops are live!

AWS Nitro Enclaves on EKS

A hands-on guide that will explore what it takes to create Pods that can spin up and manage Nitro enclaves in EKS.

Our fully remote workshops are now better than in person

Our training was already top of the class, but bringing the experience on-line has made it even better.

Focusing on pytest

Implementing Rspec's filter-run-when-matching in pytest to quickly focus on a set of tests.

Comparing The Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes Vision of DevOps

An exploration in how Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes codify vastly different philosophies of DevOps.

Google Chromebooks and Cloud Shell for Classrooms

Why you should consider Google Chromebooks and the GCP Cloud Shell as the foundation for your next workshop, and how we go about provisioning them.

SuperOrbital Joins the CFF

Cloud Foundry continues to prove itself as the only truly production grade application and container platform. We're excited to help support and take part in the growing community around it!

Bastille Casebook

Bastille Networks needed to invest in CI/CD, metrics & monitoring. SuperOrbital was there to help.

Safari BOSH Livelesson now available

Announcing our five hour long video on Safari. Learn how to harness the power of the Cloud Foundry BOSH tool to build resilient and enterprise grade cloud-native deployments.

A Modern Cloud Vocabulary

The Cloud is Chaos, and cloud-resilient systems must adhere to a new vocabulary in order to withstand it.

UNIX Programming by Example: Runit

Learning good UNIX programming technique by examining how Runit is built.

Mind the Map

Ignoring the surface area of your product will cause more challenges than any amount of technical debt.

Building an Encrypted USB Drive for your SSH Keys

How to make an encrypted USB key to securely hold your SSH keys in Mac OS X.

CTO vs VP Engineering

The difference between the responsibilities of a Chief Technical Officer and a Vice President of Engineering.

Manage your GOPATH with direnv

A simple way of using direnv to manage your GOPATH environment variable when working with multiple Go projects.

AWS Consolidated Billing, Reserved Instances and Availability Zones

An explanation of how AWS consolidated billing, reserved instances, and availability zones work together.

The Number One Trait of a Great Developer

Spoiler: It's Judgment.