Cryptography is the beating heart of cybersecurity, lying behind everything from SSH to the Secrets in a Kubernetes cluster. The history of the Internet is littered with weak encryption algorithms - many of which remain in widespread use long after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities. Security moves quickly, and organizations often struggle to keep up. In order to protect its data, …

Because we wanted to keep the book Service Mesh for Mere Mortals short and consumable, there was a lot of interesting (but peripheral) content we had to cut.  We did, however, want to make sure it was available to you if you want it, so we're presenting it here. Troubleshooting k0s installation For the sake of thoroughness and to assist the reader …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are everywhere. Whether at home, in a grocery store, or at work, IoT devices are all around us -- but IoT isn’t a single market, and it doesn’t permit one-size-fits-all solutions.  Instead, technology providers leverage a dizzying portfolio of technologies to support distinct, vertical-specific business outcomes for customers. Organizations and businesses need to find a way …

Mirantis is pleased to announce, k0s - Zero Friction Kubernetes - version 1.22 is now available for all Kubernetes users!  The highlights of this release include support for Kubernetes 1.22, the ability to disable pre-built-in components, updated upstream components and removal of iptables dependencies. In addition, you’ll find a number of other enhancements and improvements brought to k0s with this release. …

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Often you know what you want to do, you just can't remember the vocabulary or syntax for how to do it. This Kubernetes cheat sheet is designed to help solve that problem. Kubernetes provides a way to orchestrate containers to provide a robust, cloud native environment. The architecture looks something like this: Kubernetes Terms  Terms with which you should be familiar: Cluster - …

A few weeks ago, Mirantis Field CTO Shaun O’Meara and Systems Architect Oleskii Kolodiazhnyi presented a webinar about the future of OpenStack, featuring an overview and demo of Mirantis’ latest OpenStack solution: Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOS).  During the course of the webinar, we received a lot of great questions from the audience. In this post, we’ve included those questions, providing …

The lightweight, single-binary, open source Kubernetes for IoT and datacenter has earned its first major version designation. Recent features include kube-router as default CNI, arm32 support, backups, and a simple but powerful new lifecycle manager! "K0S was engineered to be modern and simple to run anywhere," says Miska Kaipiainen, project founder. "What people call 'lightweight' — which is, I guess, generally …

For a couple of weeks now, we’ve been talking about the k0s project, a simple way to get Kubernetes up and running.  In this quick and dirty guide, we’ll give you all the background you need to get started.

We’ve got a lot going on here at Mirantis, and one thing that’s flown under the radar is the K0s project, a real game-changer of a small, fast, robust, easy-to-use Kubernetes distribution.