Cloud providers make it ridiculously easy to ship a container today: drop an image into AWS ECS, Google Cloud Run, or Azure Container Apps and let the platform scale it for you. But that simplicity comes at a cost—vendor lock-in, limited observability, and roadblocks when you need stateful workloads, multi-cloud, or fine-grained security. In this Tech Stacks Decoded deep dive we compare self-managed Kubernetes with “click-to-deploy” container SaaS, using real-world stories fr

Unlock Kubernetes faster by speaking the language you already know—VMware. In Part 2 of our “Kubernetes for VMware Administrators” series, we map every control-plane and worker-node component to familiar vSphere concepts like vCenter, ESXi, DRS, HA, Resource Pools, and the vCenter database. Learn how the Kubernetes API Server, etcd, controller manager, and scheduler mirror vCenter’s management stack, while kubelet, containerd, and kube-proxy echo ESXi’s hypervisor and virtual

Unlock the essentials of Kubernetes in plain VMware language. This Part 1 primer demystifies containers vs. VMs, maps ESXi hosts to Kubernetes nodes, and introduces KubeVirt for running legacy VMs alongside modern microservices—equipping vSphere admins to start their cloud-native journey with confidence.