Monitoring is an essential aspect of any infrastructure and we should make sure that our monitoring set-up is highly available and highly scalable in order to match the needs of ever growing infrastructure especially in case of Kubernetes....
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This blog post demonstrates how you can use the Operator Lifecycle Manager to deploy a Kubernetes Operator to your cluster. Then, you will use the Operator to spin up an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) cluster. An operator is a software extension that uses custom resources (extension of the Kubernetes...
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In this topic, we are going to consider the Kubernetes WebUI Dashboard. The Web User Interface allows us to browse our playground cluster and perform administrative tasks and things like that. It gives a good way to see what you have done on your playground without having to use the...
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To start with, I would like to explain what does self-healing means in terms of Kubernetes. Self-healing is a fantastic feature of Kubernetes to recover from service or node failure automatically. In the following article, we will consider the benefit of using replication for your micro-services and how the Kubernetes...
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Gremlin is a leading software company focusing on chaos-test in the market. It also has a tool similar to Chaos Monkey which belongs to Netflix, but is more customized to test the system with random loads or scheduled shutdowns. In the article below we will be testing a simple Kubernetes...
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One of the best use cases for stateful sets is to orchestrate data-store services such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Zookeeper and so on....
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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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Kiam came into existence in order to solve 2 major problems in kube2iam. They were: # Data races under load condition # Prefetch credentials to reduce start latency and improve reliability...
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In this topic, we will consider some of the key capabilities of trusted repositories and container registries. We will cover secure authentication, scanning and signing of content as necessary practices that ensure a secure Kubernetes environment. In order to establish a deployment of Kubernetes cluster and application workloads into that...
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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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