The SOK is a Splunk-built K8s operator to run Splunk indexer clusters, search head clusters and standalone instances. This article discusses our lessons from production implementation The full post is available on medium, Splunk Operator for Kubernetes (SOK) — Lessons from our implementation, and as a Splunk Lantern article

A performance comparison of ext4 vs XFS on a large scale Splunk enterprise indexer cluster utilising SmartStore on-premise / bare metal The full post is available on medium, Splunk Indexers — ext4 vs XFS filesystem performance, a Splunk Community Blog post, and a Splunk lantern article

Kubernetes storage is crucial for deployments that rely on persistent volumes. This article explores various options available and compares Rook Ceph and Piraeus datastore in depth The full post is available on medium, Kubernetes Storage Performance Comparison Rook Ceph and Piraeus Datastore (LINSTOR)