There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious:…

If you'd like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there's always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and Gianluca Arbezzano is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks…

What is Kubernetes autoscaling? This automation capability means you don't have to manually provision and scale down resources as demand changes. It also prevents needless spending. Here's how it works in concert with the container orchestration platform.

Learn how to deploy and run OpenFaaS on GKE Autopilot for the most serverless experience ever seen on Kubernetes.

Configure your Kubernetes Ingress and quickly find the right annotations
for your ingress controllers using Ingress Builder.

Reading time: 6 minutes I’ve had this small Atomic Pi server for a while now. And I use it for all kinds of testing, learning, tools, and host a couple of apps on it. It was well worth the $40 spent on it. I’ve also given a small explanation on it in one…

Learn what makes up the OpenFaaS core services, and how to create and test your own patches when you want to contribute.

New to Prometheus? This is your introductory guide to Prometheus architecture, metrics, and it's most common use cases to get you started

This article reviews existing tools for implementing chaos engineering in K8s including kube-monkey, chaoskube, Chaos Mesh, Litmus Chaos, Chaos Toolkit, some games, and even more.

Background Over the last weekend I had occasion to unshelve a Ruby-on-Rails project that I had worked on in 2015. It was a great glimpse into the state of the art of the time. I had chosen some for…

Usually, we don’t see Endpoints objects when using Kubernetes Services, as they are working under the hood, similarly to ReplicaSets which…

Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20. Don’t Panic 😱 Docker containers are still supported, but the dockershim/Docker, the layer between Kubernetes and containerd is deprecated and will be removed from version 1.22+.
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If I was to explain LLVM in a painfully simple manner, I might say something like: “LLVM is a framework that allows you to define a syntax for interacting with computers, and instantly have it work for all computers”. This denoscription does a colossal disservice…

I’ve seen a lot of questions about signing container images in the last few months, and unfortunately there aren’t many great options or…

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We all know that every serious project needs CI/CD and I'm pretty sure that it's not necessary to explain why. There are a lot of tools, platforms and ...

“Sunburst” was the most sophisticated hack the world has ever seen. One of the most urgent lessons so far learned from the attack: we need…

When something prevents web applications from proper functioning, you have to investigate into all levels: in your infrastructure (K8s based in our case), third-party services or in the code itself.

Our stories include a poorly prepared Kafka in Docker, an unexpected network issue for ZooKeeper & ClickHouse, a faulty hardware in the data center, and the PgSQL database optimization.

Our new exciting SRE/Ops stories include complicated Linux server migration (bare-metal to VM), large PostgreSQL replica recovery, small case with ClickHouse Kubernetes operator, and abnormal result of CockroachDB upgrade.

Argo CD is a popular Kubernetes continuous deployment tool that enables GitOps workflow. The tool enables developers to manage…