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  How Businesses Can Gain Commercial Value from Kubernetes Deployments
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  Our very own regional director of Northern EMEA, Jeroen Overmaat, recently joined our partner, Magic Sandbox BV (MSB), for the inaugural episode of Magic Devcast, their new technology podcast. Joroen Overmaat, Regional Director NEMEA, Rancher Labs Magic Devcast brings together technology industry personalities and influencers from around the world to discuss how they tackle the ever-changing landscape, how to approach remote work, learning and much more. In this episode, Jeroen joins Mislav Stipetic at MSB to discuss the growing importance of containers in cloud migration and digital transformation.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/gain-commercial-value/
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  Building Machine Learning Pipelines with Kubeflow
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  In part one of this series, I introduced you to Kubeflow, a machine learning platform for teams that need to build machine learning pipelines. In this section, we will learn how to take an existing machine learning project and turn it into a Kubeflow machine learning pipeline, which in turn can be deployed onto Kubernetes. As you are going through this exercise, think about how you can convert your existing machine learning projects into a Kubeflow one.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/ml-pipeline-kubeflow/
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  Fighting Cybercrime with Rancher and Kubernetes
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  “The benefit of Rancher became obvious when, in order to support some of the features we needed, we had to go to a different version of Kubernetes. What would have taken us months took one day. We upgraded hundreds of test nodes in our development site with no problem whatsoever.” – Matt Marchetti, Principal Site Reliability Engineer Cybercrime is big business. You’d be hard-pressed to find an individual or organization who hasn’t been the victim of an attempted cybercrime – from phishing emails and identity theft to viruses, malware and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/tenable/
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  Bringing Cloud Load Balancer On-Prem with Rancher
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  The public cloud offers great scalability and flexibility for customers and is a model where service providers make many decisions on their behalf. For example, in cloud service providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, a cloud load balancer is spun up on demand. The load balancer gets an IP address automatically and your application is ready to be served. The Citrix ADC cloud-native portfolio brings that same experience to customers using Rancher on-premise.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/bring-cloud-load-balancer/
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  Deploy a Rancher Cluster with GitLab CI and Terraform
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  Introduction In today’s ever-changing world of DevOps, it is essential to follow best practices. That goes for security, access control, resource limits, etc. One of the most important things in the world of DevOps is continuous integration and continuous delivery, or CI/CD. Continuous integration is a crucial part of an efficient deployment. We are all guilty of repeating manual steps over and over again – especially when it comes to node configuration.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploy-with-gitlab-ci/
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  Longhorn Simplifies Distributed Block Storage in Kubernetes
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  Today we’re announcing the general availability of Longhorn, an enterprise-grade, cloud-native container storage solution. Longhorn directly answers the need for an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes. We’ve been working on Longhorn for almost as long as we’ve been around as a company. We launched the project in 2017, and then in 2019, we contributed it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox project.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/longhorn-container-storage/
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  Longhorn: Rancher's Journey from Zero to GA
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  When Frodo was commissioned on a seemingly straightforward journey to retrieve the One Ring, I doubt he realized the adventure and commitment he was embarking on. Rancher Labs started on a similarly daring journey almost four years ago. It didn’t take a wizard showing up uninvited at dinner to convince us of this. From the beginning of Rancher Labs, our founding team had a deep conviction about the importance of storage in the future of cloud-first computing.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/longhorn-journey-to-ga/
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  Why Kubernetes is Changing Storage
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  By 2025, IDC expects worldwide data to grow by 61 percent to 175 zettabytes. This increase in data consumption has contributed to a massive shift within the technology landscape in the last decade, where organizations have been forced to adapt to a digital-dependant world. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure have also accelerated digital adoption by breaking down barriers of entry to the cloud and providing organizations with an alternative to on-premise storage and a scalable platform to host their applications.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-changing-storage/
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  Delivering Inspiring Retail Experiences with Rancher
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  “As our business grew, we knew there would be economies in working with an orchestration partner. Rancher and Kubernetes have become enablers for the growth of our business.” – Joost Hofman, Head of Site Reliability Engineering Digital Development, Albert Heijn When it comes to deciding where and how to shop for food, consumers have a choice. And it may only take one negative experience with a retailer for a consumer to take their business elsewhere.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/albert-heijn/
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  Schedule Security Scans in Rancher 2.4
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  Rancher 2.4, the latest release of Rancher’s Kubernetes management platform, includes a new CIS security scanning feature. The Center for Internet Security publishes more than 100 benchmarks for Kubernetes, which are considered the default standard benchmark for defining security of Kubernetes clusters. With Rancher 2.4, CIS scanning is an integrated part of the Rancher UI itself for RKE clusters. If you create or import any RKE cluster via Rancher, CIS Scan will work flawlessly.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/schedule-security-scan/
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  GitOps with Azure Arc and Rancher
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  The promise of Kubernetes is to empower your organization to quickly deliver applications and services to your customers. Delivering fast cycle time and innovation requires developers and operators to collaborate effectively to ensure safety while moving fast. The GitOps methodology has taken hold in the Kubernetes ecosystem to deliver on this promise. What is GitOps? GitOps provides a mechanism to safely deploy Kubernetes manifests stored in a Git repository. By using Git as the source of truth, operators and developers can see what changes were made, conduct code reviews and automate testing.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/gitops-with-azure-arc/
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  Introducing Rancher Academy
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  Today we launched the Rancher Academy, our new free training portal. The first course is Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1, and in it you’ll learn exactly how to deploy Rancher and use it to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters. This professional certification program is designed to help Kubernetes practitioners demonstrate their knowledge and competence with Kubernetes and Rancher – and to advance in their careers. Why is Rancher Labs doing this?
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/rancher-academy/
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  Introduction to Machine Learning Pipelines with Kubeflow
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  For teams that deal with machine learning (ML), there comes a point in time where training a model on a single machine becomes untenable. This is often followed by the sudden realization that there is more to machine learning than simply model training. There are a myriad of activities that have to happen before, during and after model training. This is especially true for teams that want to productionize their ML models.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/introduction-to-machine-learning-pipeline/
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  Run Rancher 2.4 in Azure with K3s and MySQL
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  Introduction This article will describe the process of installing Rancher 2.4 on a highly available K3s Kubernetes cluster in Microsoft Azure. It will also take advantage of Microsoft Azure Database for MySQL, which removes the dependency on etcd and provides us all the additional features that Azure delivers with this service. You will learn how to deploy the infrastructure to support this pattern using only the Azure Cloud Shell. The benefit of using the Cloud Shell is that you need zero infrastructure to get started – just access to the Azure portal.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/run-rancher-k3s-mysql/
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  3 Ways to Run Kubernetes on AWS
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  Kubernetes is hugely popular and growing, and is primarily used on the cloud — 83 percent of organizations included in a large CNCF survey said they run Kubernetes on at least one public cloud. Amazon is a natural option for Kubernetes clusters, due to its mature and robust infrastructure, and a variety of deployment options with a varying degree of automation. Read on to understand three key options for running Kubernetes on AWS, how they work and which is best for your organization’s needs.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/three-way-to-run-aws/
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  Rancher Partner Program: A Partner Perspective
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  Tim Hohman, CEO of BoxBoat Technologies, a Rancher Labs Platinum Partner, recently sat down with TFiR Insights to talk about the value of the partnership. The following is a synopsis of that conversation. When companies form partnerships in the fast-moving cloud-native and Kubernetes space, choosing a partner who has a great product is certainly important. But so is vision. BoxBoat Technologies was founded in 2016 to provide consulting and services around containers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/partner-perspective/
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  Kubernetes and the Enterprise Knowledge Graph
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  In today’s enterprises, we spend much of our time dealing with information, whether it’s data, knowledge or analytics. Just like the assembly line workers of last century, today’s knowledge workers deal with similar logistics of taking raw materials as an input and producing a finished product as an output. Only in this case, the raw material is all the unorganized and sometimes random information at our disposal, and the finished product is structured information.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/kubernetes-enterprise-knowledge-graph/
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  Deploying Citrix Ingress Controller via the Rancher Catalog
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  Citrix Ingress Controller is an emerging enterprise-grade ingress controller for load balancing microservices in the Kubernetes environment. It provides advanced load balancing, rewrite/responder policy support, advanced content routing, SSL/TLS support, TCP/UDP protocol support, Canary deployment support and much more. In this article, we will discuss different deployment modes for Citrix Ingress Controller and deploy it via the Rancher catalog. You can deploy Citrix Ingress Controller in the following modes:
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/deploying-citrix-ingress-controller/
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  Stateful Kubernetes Workloads on vSphere with RKE
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  Introduction Stateful workloads in Kubernetes need to be able to access persistent volumes across the cluster. Storage Classes represent different storage types in Kubernetes. A storage provisioner backs each storage class. Most commonly used cloud providers have storage provisioners, which offer different capabilities based on the underlying cloud. There are also a wide variety of storage provisioners available to Kubernetes, based on the cloud provider in use. Some storage providers such as Portworx, Longhorn, Ceph and Local are cloud agnostic.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/stateful-kubernetes-workloads/
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  Driving Sustainability in Retail with Kubernetes
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  “With sustainability our primary focus, our technology strategy has to mirror our overall approach. With Rancher we’re driving real transformation to prime us for long-term growth.” – Zach Dunn, Senior Director of Platform Operations and CSO, Optoro Have you ever considered what happens to items you return to etailers? In retail, especially ecommerce, nearly 25 percent of all goods are returned or don’t sell. And in the US alone, the value of these goods is a staggering $500 billion – usually written off as losses by etailers.
  
  https://rancher.com/blog/2020/optoro/