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
Overview In this blog post you’ll learn: Decide Whether to Sidecar or Not to Sidecar Pick Your Log Analysis Tool – EFK or Dedicated Logging Control Access to Logs with RBAC Keep Log Formats Consistent Set Resource Limits on Log Collection Daemons Kubernetes helps manage the lifecycle of hundreds of containers deployed in pods. It
· April 16, 2020 · 6 min read
Kubernetes networking can be noisy, tedious, and complex. This article discusses some of the challenges involved with managing and troubleshooting Kubernetes networking for large-scale production deployments. In fact, in a recent survey, 42% of Kubernetes users list networking as their largest Kubernetes challenge. This number often goes up as deployment size increases. Additionally, according to
· April 6, 2020 · 7 min read
Capacity planning is a critical step in successfully building and deploying a stable and cost-effective infrastructure. The need for proper resource planning is amplified within a Kubernetes cluster, as it does hard checks and will kill and move workloads around without hesitation and based on nothing but current resource usage. This article will highlight areas
· March 27, 2020 · 6 min read
Kubernetes is a complex tool. As is the case with most complex tools, getting optimal performance out of Kubernetes can be tricky. Most Kubernetes distributions don’t come fine-tuned to maximize performance (and even if they did, it’s likely that they would not be tweaked in a way that is optimal for your environment). With that
· March 19, 2020 · 5 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
By now, virtually everyone has heard of Docker containers. But you may still be unfamiliar with Kata, an open-source container project launched in December of 2017. Kata emerged at a time when the container ecosystem was already crowded with other projects, making it easy to miss. Yet, despite being a late arrival to the containerization
· March 3, 2020 · 5 min readEnterprise Kubernetes costs can vary considerably. Depending on whether you decide to host your clusters on the public cloud services – such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) – or on-premise, there are a number of ways to ensure you are spending your money efficiently. (Read more:
· February 27, 2020 · 6 min readOverview 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
Logging is an important part of the observability and operations requirements for any large-scale, distributed system. With Kubernetes being such a system, and with the growth of microservices applications, logging is more critical for the monitoring and troubleshooting of these systems, than ever before. There are multiple log aggregators and analysis tools in the DevOps
· February 11, 2020 · 7 min read
There are several SaaS and open-source solutions that have the capability to manage multiple, disparate Kubernetes clusters – regardless of the specific distribution or what hosted offering is in play – as long as it is a certified Kubernetes platform. Kubernetes multi-cluster management focuses broadly on giving a single view to interact with, and report
· February 4, 2020 · 7 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