Deployment Models for a Scalable Log Aggregation Architecture using Loki Deploy a scalable Loki is not an straightforward task. We already have talked about Loki in previous posts on the site, and it is becoming more and more popular, and usage becomes much more regular each day. That is why I think it makes sense […]
Kubernetes
How To Enable Access Logs on Openshift Default Routes
Put some brain when a route is not working as expected, or your consumers are not able to reach the service We all know that Openshift is an outstanding Kubernetes Distribution and one of the most used mainly when talking about private-cloud deployments. Based on the solid reputation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Openshift was […]
How To Improve Your Kubernetes Workload Development Productivity
Telepresence is the way to reduce the time between your lines of code and a cloud-native workload running. We all know how cloud-native workloads and Kubernetes have changed how we do things. There are a lot of benefits that come with the effect of containerization and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and we have discussed […]
Prometheus ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor: Don’t Miss The New Concepts!
Discover the differences between two of the most used CRDs from Prometheus Operator and how to use each of them. ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor are terms that you will start to see more often when talking about using Prometheus. We have covered a lot about Prometheus in the past articles. It is one of the primary references […]
Scale To Zero And From Zero in Your Kubernetes Cluster
Bringing the Serverless Experience To Your Kubernetes Cluster Serverless always has been considered the next step in the cloud journey. You know what I mean: you start from your VM on-premises, then you move to have containers on a PaaS platform, and then you try to find your next stop in this journey that is […]
Multi Container Pod: How, When, and Why
Let’s Talk About the Most Dangerous Option From Pod Design Perspective, so you can be ready to use it! One of the usual conversations is about the composition and definition of components inside a Pod. This is normal for people moving from traditional deployment to a cloud-native environment, and the main question is: How many […]
How To Troubleshoot Network Connections On Your Kubernetes Workloads
Discover Mizu: Traffic Viewer for Kubernetes to ease this challenge and improve your daily work. One of the most common things we have to do when testing and debugging our cloud-native workloads on Kubernetes is to check the network communication. It could be to check the incoming traffic you are getting so we can inspect […]
Why You Shouldn’t Add a Resource Quota Using The Limit Value?
If You Aren’t Careful You Can Block The Scalability Of Your Workloads One of the great things about container-based developments idefiningne isolation spaces where you have guaranteed resources such as CPU and memory. This is also extended on Kubernetes-based environments at the namespace level, so you can have different virtual environments that cannot exceed the […]
Kubernetes Metadata: Empower Your Apps With Content From Your Pods.
Discover how to extract all the information available to inject it into your pods Kubernetes Metadata is how you will access some of the information from your pods in your application at runtime. When you are moving from a traditional kind of development to a cloud-native one, you usually need to access some out-of-the-box information […]
Discovering The Truth Behind Kubernetes Secrets
We have been talking recently about ConfigMap being one of the objects to store a different configuration for Kubernetes based-workloads. But what happens with sensitive data? This is an interesting question, and the initial answer from the Kubernetes platform was to provide a Secrets object. Based on its definition from the Kubernetes official website, they […]