IntroductionOftentimes there will be cases where you will want to automate the provisioning and configuration of your Digital Ocean droplets. 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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IntroductionIt goes without saying that implementing some type of metrics solution is an often neglected part of any organization's digital transformation strategy. That said, not all solutions are made the same and many of them can have prohibitively expensive licensing fees. This is where OSS solutions such as Netdata can...
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IntroductionAt their 2018 annual Re:Invent conference, AWS announced an exciting new product called "Firecracker" that is quickly setting the cloud-native ecosystem on fire. Firecracker is a Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) exclusively designed for running transient and short-lived processes. In other words, it is optimized for running functions and serverless...
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Last time we talked about deploying a Ceph cluster with block storage using Rook. Today we are going to dive into discussing a different type of storage method that Rook provides and what it's use case and benefits are. What is MinIO?MinIO is a high performance object store that...
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It goes without saying that if you want to orchestrate containers at this point, Kubernetes is what you use to do it. Sure, there may be a few Docker Swarm holdouts still around, but for the most part, K8s has cemented itself as the industry standard for container orchestration solutions....
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What is a service mesh?Service meshes are all the rage in the Kubernetes world these days, but a lot of people seem to be a bit confused as to what they do and why (when) they need one. The best way to think of a service mesh is to...
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It never fails that the CNCF seem to always be cooking up something interesting in their ecosystem. In my free time, I always seem to find myself in a habit of playing in the Sandbox to see what new cutting edge tools I can add to my collection. It is...
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IntroductionThe CNCF has been hard at work over the past few years pushing cloud-native technology to new heights. Many of the graduated projects have become household names for engineers working at all levels. Projects such as Prometheus and Fluentd are being used in production as we speak to solve the...
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I will always remember the first time I started playing around with Kubernetes on Amazon EKS as a personal hobby and looked at my costs a month later. This was around when I was first dipping my feet into the waters of the DevOps tools ecosystem and container orchestration with...
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The ProblemPrometheus has become one of the standard tools of any monitoring solutions due to it's simple and reliable architecture and ease of use. Despite this, the tool has some shortcomings when working on a certain scale. When trying to scale Prometheus, one major issue you quickly bump into is...
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