Similar to the way Docker builds and orchestrates containers, UniK automates compilation of popular languages into unikernels....
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IntroHaving a proper backup recovery plan is vital to any organization's IT operation. However, when you begin to distribute workloads across data centers and regions, that process begins to become more and more complex. Container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes have begun to ease this burden and enabled the management...
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IntroOrganizations are increasingly looking to containers and distributed applications to provide the agility and scalability needed to satisfy their clients. While doing so, modern enterprises also need the ability to benchmark their application and be aware of certain metrics in relation to their infrastructure. In this post, I am introducing...
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IntroThere are many challenges that engineering teams face when attempting to incorporate a multi-cloud approach into their infrastructure goals. Kubernetes does a good job of addressing some of these issues, but managing the communication of clusters that span multiple cloud providers in multiple regions can become a daunting task for...
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IntroIf you've spent days (or even weeks?) trying to spin up a Kubernetes cluster for learning purposes or to test your application, then your worries are over. Spawned from a Kubernetes Special Interest Group, KIND is a tool that provisions a Kubernetes cluster running IN Docker. From the docs: kind...
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IntroSo, let's say you had a service or application that was built on an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes. In doing so, you must also address an overflowing array of architectural issues, including security, multi-tenancy, API gateways, CLI, configuration management, and logging. Wouldn't you like to save some manpower and...
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What is Brigade?Brigade is a tool from the team that brought you Helm and Draft which are designed to assist developers and operations teams to accomplish more work with event-driven scripting. The tool enables teams to build out any ordered workflow of containers in Kubernetes and trigger the workflow...
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IntroductionTeams that work with Machine Learning (ML) workloads in production know that added complexity can bring projects for a grinding halt. While deploying simple ML workloads might seem like an easy task, the process becomes a lot more involved when you begin to scale and distribute these loads and implement...
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IntroductionOftentimes there will be cases where you will want to automate the provisioning and configuration of your Vultr cloud infrastructure. There are a plethora of tools out there, however, cloud-init is an industry-standard that is used to initialize and configure VM instances with user-data. What is Terraform?Terraform is an...
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IntroductionOftentimes there will be cases where you will want to automate the provisioning and configuration of your Packer bare-metal infrastructure. There are a plethora of tools out there, however, cloud-init is an industry-standard that is used to initialize and configure instances with user-data. What is Terraform?Terraform is an Infrastructure-as-code...
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