Question 1

What are Containers?

Accepted Answer

Containers are a form of operating system virtualization. A single container might be used to run anything from a small microservice or software process to a larger application. Inside a container are all the necessary executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files.

Question 2

What is Kubernetes?

Accepted Answer

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.

Question 3

What is DevOps and DevSecOps?

Accepted Answer

DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.  Building on that, DevSecOps stands for development, security, and operations. It's an approach to culture, automation, and platform design that integrates security as a shared responsibility throughout the entire IT lifecycle.

Question 4

Why should customers consider Stakater?

Accepted Answer

At Stakater, our people and leadership have been involved in the DevOps space for the best part of a decade. We have been using Kubernetes from the early days and have been contributing to the Open Source community regularly.   Our vision has always been to enable technology teams to focus on their strengths while we handle the operational side of things.

Question 5

What are the different offerings by Stakater?

Accepted Answer

Out offerings can be broken down into the following: Stakater's App agility platform (SAAP): Get a fully managed DevSecOps platform on the cloud for Kubernetes/OpenShift. Priced based on total number of nodes being utilized. Platform assessment: Assess your current maturity in the DevSecOps space with a two-three week engagement. Consulting: Customized services for your DevSecOps needs.

Question 6

What is SAAP?

Accepted Answer

SAAP enables developers to control and configure the entire cloud development loop to ship and scale software faster. SAAP helps companies stay through our curated list of standard and custom-built cloud-native tools, constantly monitored by our site reliability engineers.

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