Tag: Kubernetes
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Optimizing docker images for a faster development workflow
Posted on August 11, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
jobandtalent Engineering published an interesting article on Docker images optimization. Architecture being based on docker means that every change that improves the usage of a resource (time to execute, memory usage, disk space usage, network usage…) in any stage of the process, will have an impact in each one of the environments.
Tags docker kubernetes microservices
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CI/CD with Kubernetes: tools and practices
Posted on July 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Rob Scott intro into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with Kubernetes. Setting up a CI/CD pipeline on top of Kubernetes will speed up your release life cycle — enabling you to release multiple times a day -- and enable nimble teams to iterate quickly.
Tags kubernetes containers devops cicd
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Locking down Kubernetes workers: hardening Kubernetes security
Posted on June 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Kontena's blog on ht topic of Kubernetes security. One of the trickiest parts in setting up a proper Kubernetes cluster is making it secure. There are numerous communication paths that must be secured.
Tags kubernetes devops containers
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Beyond CPU: horizontal pod autoscaling, custom metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine
Posted on May 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting article by Maks Osowski addressing common problem for enterprises and their need to autoscale their environments based on more than just CPU usage. Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10+ will enable you to configure your deployments to scale horizontally in a variety of ways.
Tags kubernetes containers devops
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Advanced logging on Kubernetes
Posted on May 22, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Sandor Guba article diving into Kubernetes logging. The article covers some advanced techniques and visualizations of the collected logs. It is part of the series of articles on Kubernetes topic. Banzai Cloud puts huge efforts to monitor large and federated clusters and they push large amounts of logs of the distributed applications to Kubernetes.
Tags kubernetes containers devops
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10 open-source Kubernetes tools
Posted on February 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Abhishek Tiwari article about curated list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops Teams. If you are running workloads in Kubernetes, your site reliability engineering (SRE) and operations (Ops) teams need right kind of tooling to ensure the high-reliability of the Kubernetes cluster and workloads running in it.
Tags kubernetes docker containers devops
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How to connect to Redis with Unix sockets in Docker
Posted on January 2, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Jonathan Baldie short tutorial addressing speed of Redis connection. Connecting to Redis via Unix sockets is usually faster than connecting via TCP/IP.
Tags docker containers kubernetes
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KubeVirt - the first look
Posted on December 19, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Karim Boumedhel wrote interesting article introducing Kubernetes virtualization API (KubeVirt) - an API and runtime add-on for Kubernetes in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Tags cloud kubernetes containers
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Automated image builds with Jenkins, Packer, and Kubernetes
Posted on November 28, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Detailed article - tutorial from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineers about deploying faster. Creating custom images to boot your Google Compute Engine instances or Docker containers can reduce boot time and increase reliability. By pre-installing software into a custom image, you can also reduce your dependency on the availability of 3rd party repositories that are out of your control.
Tags cicd kubernetes containers gcp
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Advanced kubernetes ingress
Posted on October 29, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Björn Wenzel deatiled writting on how to to setup a more complex kubernetes ingress example. This blog post is building on his previous post - Install kubernetes ingress. The application in this example has an api-server and a separate ui server.
Tags kubernetes containers devops software-architecture infosec
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How mailgun adopted service mesh with vulcand and NGINX
Posted on October 28, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Derrick J Wippler description how and why they jumped on service mesh bandwagon. He will tell you what is a service mesh, why they have adopted it at Mailgun, and how are they using it to deliver their software. Service mesh has officially become a thing, thanks to the launch of [Istio](https://istio.io/) (a joint collaboration between IBM, Google, and Lyft) and the adoption of [linkerd](https://linkerd.io/) by big companies like PayPal and Ticketmaster.
Tags microservices kubernetes software-architecture
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How to operate kubernetes network
Posted on October 20, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Julia Evans excellent blog post focusing on how to set up your Kubernetes network. She hasn't had seen much about how to operate the network and be confident that it would not create a lot of production incidents for you down the line. And that's why she dives into kubernetes networking in this post.
Tags kubernetes devops cloud