Articles in category: Kubernetes

Securing Your Kubernetes Cluster: Cilium and Network Policies
Kubernetes

Securing Your Kubernetes Cluster: Cilium and Network Policies

Learn how to secure your Kubernetes network using Cilium and NetworkPolicies in this article. We'll explain the ingress and egress policies, show how to visualize network flows with Hubble, and implement Layer 7 policies with CiliumNetworkPolicy.

23 min read
Understanding networking in Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Understanding networking in Kubernetes

Explore an in-depth analysis of Kubernetes networking, including container-to-container, pod-to-pod, pod-to-service, ingress, and egress communication. Understand the key roles of Container Network Interface (CNI), kubelet, kube-proxy, and learn about iptables and IPVS modes in kube-proxy.

15 min read
Portainer - UI for managing Containers
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.

6 min read
Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) tips you didn't know about
Kubernetes

Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) tips you didn't know about

A collection of more than 20 useful and practical Kubernetes CLI tips from the Kubernetes community.

8 min read
ArgoCD Best Practices You Should Know
Kubernetes

ArgoCD Best Practices You Should Know

This article contains a set of 10 best practices for Argo Workflows, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts.

6 min read
How to use kwatch to detect crashes in Kubernetes clusters
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.

4 min read
Continuous profiling in Kubernetes using Pyroscope
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.

9 min read
Monitoring containers with cAdvisor
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.

6 min read
Creating a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud (LAB)
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

6 min read
Your first Kubernetes Pod and ReplicaSet (LABS)
Kubernetes

Your first Kubernetes Pod and ReplicaSet (LABS)

You've created your Kubernetes cluster and now it's time to put it to use. In this second lab you'll create your first Kubernetes Pod and your first Kubernetes ReplicaSet

10 min read
Container Lifecycle Hooks
Kubernetes

Container Lifecycle Hooks

The concept of hooks is well-known in the tech world. Events usually trigger hooks, and they allow developers to react to those events and run some custom code. But how can you do the same in the context of Kubernetes and containers?

3 min read
Exploring Kubernetes Volumes
Kubernetes

Exploring Kubernetes Volumes

Running stateful workloads inside Kubernetes is different from running stateless services. The reason being is that the containers and Pods can get created and destroyed at any time. If any of the cluster nodes go down or a new node appears, Kubernetes needs to reschedule the Pods. When Pods get rescheduled, what happens with data? This article talks about Kubernetes Volumes and how to use them to store the data outside of your containers.

5 min read
Kubernetes Network Policy
Kubernetes

Kubernetes Network Policy

Using the NetworkPolicy resource, you can control the traffic flow for your applications in the cluster, at the IP address level or port level (OSI layer 3 or 4).

8 min read
Ambassador Container Pattern
Kubernetes

Ambassador Container Pattern

The ambassador container pattern aims to hide the primary container's complexity and provide a unified interface through which the primary container can access services outside of the Pod.

3 min read
Start Kubernetes Release
Kubernetes

Start Kubernetes Release

Start Kubernetes will teach you everything you need to know to use Kubernetes effectively.

2 min read
Sidecar Container Pattern
Kubernetes

Sidecar Container Pattern

The sidecar container aims to add or augment an existing container's functionality without changing the container. In comparison to the init container from the previous article, the sidecar container starts and runs simultaneously as your application container. The sidecar is just a second container you have in your container list, and the startup order is not guaranteed.

4 min read
Kubernetes Init Containers
Kubernetes

Kubernetes Init Containers

Init containers allow you to separate your application from the initialization logic and provide a way to run the initialization tasks such as setting up permissions, database schemas, or seeding data for the main application, etc. The init containers may also include any tools or binaries that you don't want to have in your primary container image due to security reasons.

4 min read
Kubernetes Development Environment with Skaffold
Kubernetes

Kubernetes Development Environment with Skaffold

One part of the Start Kubernetes course I am working on (in addition to the book and videos) is the interactive labs. The purpose of these labs is to help you learn Kubernetes by solving different tasks, such as creating pods, scaling deployments, and so on. What follows is a quick explanation of how the end-user experience looks like and how I've set up my development environment for it.

7 min read
Securing Kubernetes Ingress with Ambassador and Let's Encrypt
Kubernetes

Securing Kubernetes Ingress with Ambassador and Let's Encrypt

In addition to routing the incoming requests or exposing service API's through a single endpoint, the ingress gateways does other tasks, such as rate limiting, SSL termination, load balancing, authentication, circuit breaking and more. In this article I will show you how to install the Ambassador Gateway and other components to be able to obtain an SSL certificate for your application.

11 min read
All About the Ingress Resource
Kubernetes

All About the Ingress Resource

You deployed your applications to Kubernetes and now you need a way for your users to access them. You can do that with a Kubernetes Ingress resource and an Ingress controller. This article explains all about the Ingress resource and shows you how to expose multiple applications through a domain, subdomain and on a different URL path.

18 min read
How to quarantine Kubernetes pods?
Kubernetes

How to quarantine Kubernetes pods?

To investigate and debug the containers within a pod you need to remove the pod from the load balancing pool, so none of the traffic gets sent to it. This tip shows you how to do that.

2 min read
Getting started with Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Getting started with Kubernetes

In this multi-part series of articles I'll try and capture everything I think someone who wants to learn and work with Kubernetes should know about. If you have read any of my previous articles or courses you know that I like to learn by practice and trying things out. I'll explain theoretical things, but will focus more on the practical parts.

47 min read
Build Netlify-like deployment for React app using Kubernetes pods
Kubernetes

Build Netlify-like deployment for React app using Kubernetes pods

Ever wondered how you can build your own system that automatically updates your React app each time you push changes to the repository where your app is hosted? In this article I explain how you can use build a Netlify-like deployment for React apps using a multi-container Kubernetes pod.

6 min read
Master the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) - Cheatsheet
Kubernetes

Master the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) - Cheatsheet

This Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) cheatsheet contains the most common commands you will use when working with Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes resources. If you're working with Kubernetes on daily basis or if you're just learning about Kubernetes you will run into a set of commands that are used often than the other commands. The ones used more often are also usually easy to remember (especially if you're typing them out multiple times a day).

5 min read
Minikube Basics and How to Get Started with Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Minikube Basics and How to Get Started with Kubernetes

This post and accompanying video guides you through the Minikube installation process. It explains and introduces a couple of essential Minikube commands you can use to work with your Kubernetes cluster, and shows you how to access your applications inside the cluster when using Minikube.

2 min read
5 Tips to Be More Productive with Kubernetes
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5 Tips to Be More Productive with Kubernetes

I like to read and see how people set up their environments and any tools, tips, and tricks they use to be more productive when working with Kuberentes and Istio. What follows is a collection of 5 tips and tools that I use daily and I think it makes me be more productive with Kuberentes and Istio.

6 min read
Expose a Kubernetes service on your own custom domain
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Expose a Kubernetes service on your own custom domain

You have finally deployed your app to Kubernetes and you bought a cool domain name — ever wondered how to point your cool domain like www.mydomain.com, but cooler, to an application running inside Kubernetes? Well, read on and I'll try to explain how to do just that!

4 min read
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