
Kubernetes
Portainer - UI for managing Containers
Portainer is an open-source, lightweight management UI that allows us to easily build and manage containers. This article explains how to install Portainer on a Kubernetes cluster and how to create a namespace and deploy an app.
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Running AI On OCI Ampere A1 Instance
In this article, I will demonstrate easy steps of preparing and launching compute-intensive AI applications on OCI Ampere A1 shape to take advantage of the best-in-class AI inference performance of Ampere Altra processor and Ampere Inference Optimizer (AIO).

General
How to Deploy Traefik Proxy Using Flux and GitOps Principles
GitOps makes configuration management seamless by creating a single source of truth for configuration changes so that changes can be transparent, validated, and low-risk. This article and this GitHub repository will show you how Traefik Proxy and Flux can work together to help you implement GitOps principles. But before we jump in, what are these tools, and how do they help?

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How to configure Firebase emulators with Next.js?
Firebase emulators are a suite of Firebase service emulators that allow you to run and test your applications locally. This article describes how to configure and use them with Next.js
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Running Hugo on free Ampere VM (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
In this article, I'll take you on a journey of setting up a free-for-life virtual machine instance running on OCI. We'll be creating the account, a virtual machine instance, creating a Github repository with Hugo, setting up Nginx on the VM, and obtaining a free SSL certificate.

Kubernetes
How to use kwatch to detect crashes in Kubernetes clusters
kwatch is an open-source tool that detects crashes in Kubernetes Pods in real-time and sends the notifications to supported backends. In this post, we'll show you how to deploy and configure kwatch to send Kubernetes Pod crash notifications to PagerDuty.

Kubernetes
Continuous profiling in Kubernetes using Pyroscope
In this blog post, we will discuss continuous profiling and then instrument a couple of microservices running on Kubernetes using an open-source tool called Pyroscope.

Kubernetes
Monitoring containers with cAdvisor
Monitoring with cAdvisor allows you to gather information about individual Docker containers. cAdvisor runs as a daemon and collects the information about running containers, crunches the data, and exports it to your backend system of choice (Prometheus, ElasticSearch, StatsD). This article shows you how to install cAdvisor and get the metrics to show up on a dashboard in Grafana.

Kubernetes
Creating a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud (LAB)
In this first lab in the series of Kubernetes labs, we'll learn how to create a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud