Docker

EFK Stack on Kubernetes (Part 2)

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EFK Stack on Kubernetes (Part 2)

This is the final part of our Kubernetes logging series. In case you missed part 1 you can find it here. In this tutorial, we will learn about configuring Filebeat to run as a DaemonSet in our Kubernetes cluster in order to ship logs to the Elasticsearch backend. We are...

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Docker

EFK stack on Kubernetes (Part 1)

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EFK stack on Kubernetes (Part 1)

This is the first post of the 2 part series where we will set-up production grade Kubernetes logging for applications deployed in the cluster and the cluster itself. We will be using Elasticsearch as the logging backend for this. The Elasticsearch set-up will be extremely scalable and fault tolerant. 1....

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes monitoring using Prometheus

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Kubernetes monitoring using Prometheus

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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Kubernetes

How to Set Up Jenkins on Kubernetes

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How to Set Up Jenkins on Kubernetes

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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Kubernetes

Optimizing K8s cluster costs with Kubecost

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Optimizing K8s cluster costs with Kubecost

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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