Catapult – Remote Monitoring Simplifying Kubernetes management requires more than installation and upgrades. To truly simplify the complexities that are inherent to Kubernetes a platform provider needs to reduce the burden across a variety of factors and increase the productivity of the operations teams tasked with operating the Kubernetes environment. For example; every request for […]
· June 14, 2022 · 4 min read
Kubernetes is a complicated beast in many respects, and monitoring is no exception. Although in some ways the monitoring tooling and strategies that teams already have in place can be extended to support Kubernetes, in other ways Kubernetes requires you to forget everything you think you know about how APM is supposed to work. To
· July 16, 2020 · 8 min read
Like many computing systems, your Kubernetes environment requires the use of sensitive information. Sensitive values (such as passwords, SSH keys, and security tokens) are referred to collectively as secrets. In this article, we will explain how to store and manage the secrets in your Kubernetes environment, and we will examine the capabilities of Kubernetes and
· June 7, 2020 · 5 min read
Kubernetes provides a lot of freedom in terms of workload deployment across development, test, and production environments. It also gives you the flexibility to deploy across data centers, cloud providers (public and private), or colocation services without changing your software. If you’re already running on Kubernetes, you may later decide you need better support or
· April 19, 2020 · 10 min read
Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration system, is used extensively in DevOps. However, it can become very complex: you have to handle all of the objects (ConfigMaps, pods, etc.), and you also have to manage your releases. Both can be accomplished with Kubernetes Helm, the Kubernetes packaging solution. This article discusses Helm packages (aka Helm charts),
· March 12, 2020 · 6 min read
Overview This article will cover Top 10 Kubernetes Performance Best Practices: Define Deployment Resources Deploy Clusters closer to customers Choose better Persistent Storage and Quality of Service Configure Node Affinities Configure Pod Affinity Configure Taints Build optimized images Configure Pod Priorities Configure Kubernetes Features Optimize Etcd Cluster Kubernetes is a scalable and performant engine that
· February 19, 2020 · 10 min read
What is GitOps GitOps, in layman’s terms, can probably be described as DevOps powered by Git, with a noticeable shift in favor of developers. Think of Git version control as a giant indexed folder that magically absorbs all your code into neat laminated sections with colorful post-its sticking out, displaying full audit trails. In the
· January 28, 2020 · 5 min read
Kubernetes is hailed for making it simple to provision the resources you need, when you need them. However, it’s challenging to know the exact size and number of nodes that best fit your application, especially when you can’t predict what load you will want to support in the future. If you are allocating resources manually,
· December 16, 2019 · 6 min read
Kubernetes Monitoring Solutions Deploying Prometheus on Kubernetes Deploying Cortex on Kubernetes Key Metrics ti Track The growing adoption of microservices and distributed applications gave rise to the container revolution. Running on containers necessitated orchestration tooling, like Kubernetes. But managing the availability, performance, and deployment of containers is not the only challenge. It is important to
· December 12, 2019 · 13 min read
Overview This article will cover: Kubernetes Upgrade Paths Upgrading Kubernetes: A Step-by-Step Guide Etcd Upgrade Paths Upgrading etcd Operating enterprise Kubernetes deployment is difficult. That is due in no small part to the fact that Kubernetes is not just one tool, but a collection of a dozen-odd components that provide functionality ranging from application deployments
· September 24, 2019 · 9 min read
etcd is a critical part of the Kubernetes stack. etcd stores the state of the Kubernetes cluster, including node and workload information. Having multiple etcd members (a cluster) is a common strategy for ensuring the availability of the Kubernetes control plane, including the Kubernetes API. A highly available Kubernetes control plane is critical in production,
· April 18, 2019 · 2 min read
Over the past two years, deploying a conformant Kubernetes cluster has become even easier, thanks to the efforts of the Cluster Lifecycle Special Interest Group (SIG) and its kubeadm tool. But if you’ve used kubeadm on a freshly provisioned machine, you know there is a considerable set of tasks you have to complete prior to
· April 16, 2019 · 3 min read