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SUSE, an enterprise-grade open-source solutions provider, has unveiled Rancher 2.7.2, the latest iteration of its Kubernetes management platform. With new extensibility features, the platform is poised to accelerate ecosystem adoption even further. Additionally, SUSE has augmented its open-source commercial subscription for Rancher with the launch of Rancher Prime, providing enterprises with additional value. It has also made updates to its open-source projects, including Rancher Desktop, and revamped its Rancher Academy training portal, which is free to use.

“As the Kubernetes ecosystem expands and becomes more complex, innovation, interoperability, and simplicity have never been more important. Our free-to-use Rancher UI extension framework empowers users and independent software…

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Oct 3, 2022 14:00 PDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 3, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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Lyrid proudly announces its partnership with Biznet Gio – a cloud infrastructure division of Biznet, the leading Indonesian internet service provider (ISP) and a key partner in our global hosting network efforts. This partnership combines Biznet’s highly scalable bare metal hardware with Lyrid’s highly flexible multi-cloud Kubernetes deployment and management software to deliver unparalleled scalability, usability and performance.

“Our strategic partnership with Lyrid accelerates the cloud computing ecosystem in…

Oftentimes it is hard to understand why something is the way it is unless you understand its history. To start with, I want to present a quick overview of the history of web infrastructure hosting to give you a better feel for what sorts of problems cloud native development solves.

The Old Way

Way back in the early days of the Internet, web applications were hosted on specific server machines. That is, when you wanted to host a web application, you had to purchase a physical machine, install Linux or some other operating system on it, and then pay an Internet Service Provider to put your machine on their network. This process was both time-consuming and expensive, often costing hundreds of dollars a month just to rent the space where you install your own server.

If you…

To make Kubernetes work at scale, you need a container orchestration tool that automates the management, deployment and scaling of your clusters. 

If you’re running Kubernetes on AWS, you can choose from several options: 

• Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 
• AWS Fargate

Which one is the best match for your workloads that helps to reduce your AWS bill? Read on to find out.

What is Elastic Container Service (ECS)?

ECS is a scalable container orchestration platform AWS that runs, stops, and manages containers in a cluster. The containers are defined as part of Task definitions.

You can use ECS with EC2 instances or AWS Fargate.

ECS + EC2 instances

Pros:

Cons:

• You take care of security patches,…