Transform k8s logs into metrics and visualize them

Back in the bad old days, setting up basic HTTPS with a certificate authority cost as much as several hundred dollars per year, and the process was difficult and error-prone to set up. Now we have Let's Encrypt for free, and the whole thing takes just a few…

The mTLS and authorization features in the Istio service mesh make it easy to secure your microservices-based environment.

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Fire drills are a familiar concept to anyone who has ever worked in an office. Periodically the fire alarm will start to blare and a few…

There is a kubeconfig file behind every working kubectl command.1 This file typically lives at $HOME/.kube/config. Having written kubectx, I’ve interacted with kubeconfigs long enough to write some tips about how to deal with them.

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WePay’s engineering team talks about their new highly available MySQL cluster built with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator. It improves upon their previous architecture by reducing any downtime from 30 minutes to 40-60 seconds.

At this point, I have two(+) years of experience with Microservices, and I’m not an expert, but I have some hard-earned knowledge distilled from working with them (and making lots of mistakes…

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

The universe of serverless-wielding software architects and Kubernetes cluster operators has started to collide and, yet again, Google is in the driver's seat. In this article we'll wander down the CNCF's Serverless Landscape in chronological order, quickly…

Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don’t have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which…

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Leverage Docker images and containers to create an isolated Node development environment that runs a server

Google Cloud identity platform launching OpenVPN access that integrated with secure LDAP which enable corporate network users to access their application

Automatically deploy your apps with zero downtime as I demonstrate using the Jenkins-powered continuous deployment pipeline of a three-tier web application built in Node.js, deployed on AWS Cloud, and using Terraform as an infrastructure orchestrator.

Learn how and when to develop custom modules for Ansible.