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Sony turns to Kubernetes, eyes deeper back-end integration

Anime, peripherals, and Kubernetes… 

Sony turns to Kubernetes, eyes deeper back-end integration
New Sony CEO Hiroko Totoki

Sony plans to make its Playstation Network platform the cornerstone of a newly integrated technology architecture its CEO revealed – praising its “robust network infrastructure” despite a trio of major outages in late ‘24 and early ‘25 that the company’s engineers say they have learned from.

At least one of these was caused by botched Kubernetes housekeeping efforts, including attempts to merge clusters and a software update that “inadvertently removed” the CoreDNS server and the Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes networking, The Stack learned this week.

Sony's Kubernetes use grows

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