Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes provides capabilities like service discovery, horizontal autoscaling, and load balancing, while ensuring that application configurations are declarative and that systems are self-healing.
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CNCF Cloud Native Landscape and Trail Map
The Cloud Native Ecosystem is constantly evolving and continues to grow at a fast pace. The usage of Cloud Native Technologies in Production has tremendously increased during the recent past.
Microservices on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source container-orchestration system for automating deployments, scaling and management of containerized applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with Microservices on Kubernetes. I will cover the below topics in details — How… Read More ›
Kubernetes Architecture
If you are building cloud native applications, Kubernetes is a game changer in this space and lets you build and deploy reliable, scalable and highly available distributed systems. In this blog, we will discuss about the Kubernetes architecture and look at the various components of the Master and Worker Nodes.
Istio 1.0 – The Production Ready Service Mesh
Istio 1.0 was released today – indicating that all the core features are now ready for Production use. The growth of Istio has been tremendous over the past few months and it has seen wider adoption from the developer community.
Sidecar Design Pattern in your Microservices Ecosystem
The sidecar design pattern is gaining popularity and wider adoption within the community. Building a Microservice architecture that is highly scalable, resilient, secure and observable is challenging. The evolution of Service Mesh architecture has been a game changer.
Crash Loop Detection in Kubernetes
In this blog, I will explain how to perform Crash Loop Detection in Kubernetes and ensure that your deployment is stable before you start routing live traffic to your new service version.
The Rise of Service Mesh Architecture
In this blog, I will explain the concept of Service Mesh, why it is needed for your cloud native applications, the reason of its popularity & incredible growth/adoption within the community. Microservices have taken the software industry by storm and… Read More ›
End to End Testing in Kubernetes – Part II
In this blog post, I will show you how to write End to End Tests in Kubernetes to verify the various objects in a Kubernetes cluster like Pods, Services, Nodes etc. I would highly recommend you to read my previous blog about End to End Testing in Kubernetes for context setting prior to looking at the below set of tests.
End to End Testing in Kubernetes
In this blog post, I will show you how to write a series of end to end tests which can validate the Kubernetes cluster health and provide immediate feedback. These tests provides a good level of abstraction and will run fine irrespective of where you are deploying your Kubernetes cluster — Azure or AWS.
Load Testing in Kubernetes using Siege
In this article, I will show you how to simulate traffic to your Kubernetes cluster using a tool called Siege and then verify the increased traffic/load using Prometheus.
Automate Kubernetes and Istio Environment Setup
In this article, we will create an automated script to enable developers to work in Kubernetes and Istio environment. So basically once you run this script you will have a functional development environment set to get started with your development work.
Local Development Environment Setup for Kubernetes using Minikube
I have created a video tutorial to setup a local development environment for K8s using Minikube. I will walk you through how to perform the required installations to create a running K8s cluster locally. We will then deploy an app using the K8s CLI. Once done, we will explore the deployed application and environments.