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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Monitoring is a crucial aspect of any Ops pipeline and for technologies like Kubernetes which is a rage right now, a robust monitoring setup can bolster your confidence to migrate production workloads from VMs to Containers. Today we will deploy a Production grade Prometheus based monitoring system, in less than...
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What is Terraform?It is a tool that is used for building, changing and versioning infrastructure safely and effectively. Using the configuration file you describe to Terraform what components are needed. Terraform then goes and generates an execution plan describing what the desired state should be. And then it goes...
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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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Welcome to this tutorial series, where we will evolve from the anatomy of a container inside the Linux Kernel, and will keep building pieces and evolving till the publication of a service into an Orchestration Platform. The general idea is to detail as much as possible (without being massive) how...
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GitHub Actions is one of the most powerful tools that you can use if you are storing our code on this service repository. The idea is simple, you can design a complex workflow using automated tasks (called actions) in order to be activated and run when a commit is done...
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This guide will walk you through the process of setting up Jenkins on Kubernetes. Jenkins is a widely-used open source CI server that provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating your projects. In the next sections, you will: Create a Kubernetes cluster with minikube (This is an...
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This blog post shows how you can debug a simple Node.js application running in a Docker container. The tutorial is laid out in a fashion that allows you to use it as a reference while you’re building your own Node.js application and is intended for readers who...
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Once you start working with the docker, you will eventually find that you want a bit more control over the images you want to deploy your container on. Here Docker Registry plays an important role, it helps you to centralize your container images and also reduce the build time for...
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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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