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
We’re living in a cloud-native world. You can barely read a tech blog or go to a conference without hearing about all of the benefits of cloud-native technologies or architectures, such as containers, microservices and serverless functions. Yet amidst all of the excitement about going cloud native, it can be easy to overlook the challenges
· January 14, 2020 · 6 min read
Evaluating EKS vs GKE vs AKS? Whether you’re considering getting your feet wet with Kubernetes, or are looking at Kubernetes as the foundation to deploy applications consistently across hybrid/multi cloud environments, you are likely evaluating at the big three cloud providers and their Kubernetes offerings. (Read more: 6 Ways Kubernetes Simplifies Multi-Cloud Management) This article
· January 6, 2020 · 6 min read
Overview In this post you’ll learn: CI/CD platforms for Kubernetes How to Install Jenkins on Kubernetes Scaling CI/CD Jenkins Pipelines with Kubernetes Best Practices to use Kubernetes for CI/CD at scale Kubernetes has a vast list of use cases in the cloud-native world. It can be utilized to deploy application containers in the cloud, schedule
· January 2, 2020 · 11 min read