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Hello! I’m Ryan Syracuse from Linode’s Technical Writing Team. Here at Linode, we believe our successful 16-year tenure as a cloud hosting company is a direct reflection of our core values and competencies. This involves understanding future trends in large-scale modern Linux administration—ahead of the curve—and sharing these insights with the larger Linux community. Knowledge […]

Here at Linode, we’re always working on new and improved services, feature enhancements, and integrations, so you can build and deploy what you need faster. We want to make sure you have the confidence to use our products with ease. That’s why our technical documentation team produces helpful content for you every month.  New Rancher […]

Linode Systems Engineer Jon “jfred” Frederickson shares his experience building out the IP whitelisting feature for running Kubernetes on Linode. As Linode’s engineering team built out our Kubernetes features, we hit plenty of obstacles, as expected. However, one challenge arose that we weren’t anticipating: how to whitelist applications running in Kubernetes on the infrastructure we […]

Rancher 2.3 makes it easier to use Linode for Kubernetes As the Linode community continues to adopt Docker and Kubernetes for their workloads, we started working with Rancher to make it easier to deploy and manage your Kuberenetes clusters with Rancher on Linode. Back in April, we launched the Linode Node Driver for Rancher and […]

At Linode, we’re passionate for Python! Whenever we get an opportunity to share in and celebrate all the cool things going on in the Python community, we simply can’t pass up the chance. This Friday and Saturday we’re back at it once again, cruising up to the Big Apple for PyGotham, an eclectic Python-centric conference […]

Hi! Andrew here—developer at Linode. In the process of building a managed Kubernetes solution, I’ve discovered and created several tricks that I use to make daily tasks with Kubernetes easier. I wanted to share these five here with you and I hope you find them as helpful as I have. 1. The Meta-Shell Trick I first […]

The Linode engineering team has been working overtime to respond to the needs of our customers and the market. We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the Linode Kubernetes Engine beta program. What to expect? Kubernetes made simpler. Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized […]

Bare metal is the ideal solution for customers with complex application, performance, availability, or security requirements. Traditionally, these requirements have only been met by purchasing hardware and deploying it on-premise. Linode’s bare metal service removes these barriers by providing a controlled, cloud-based environment to run applications directly on the server’s hardware. Bare metal servers combine […]

We’re proud to announce Linode is heading down under later this year for the launch of our newest data center: Linode Sydney. This will be our 11th data center worldwide and comes on the heels of our recent global expansion to Toronto and Mumbai. This is a significant milestone for us. From the early days […]

Linode’s Documentation team recently released a comprehensive five-part tutorial to help readers discover and implement the Kubernetes container orchestration system, often referred to as k8s. A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes answers fundamental questions and introduces essential principles of Kubernetes. The guide is supplemented by a reference and glossary to explain new terminology while progressing through […]

Join us this Fall for more #LinodeOnTheRoad adventures. We’ll be a busy bunch these next few months and look forward to meeting you all around the globe. MonktoberfestPortland, Maine | October 3-4 We’re heading up to beautiful New England for our first event of the Fall. Monktoberfest is the only event of its kind that […]