Splitting service traffic on-prem with MetalLB

Distributed systems are often described as a double-edged sword. There is plenty of excellent content out there written on both why they suck and also why they are great. This is not one of those posts. I would say generally I am an advocate and believer in distributed systems where they make sense, but the goal of this blog post (and the two others that will follow) is to share some stories with you about where I have got something wrong within a distributed system that has led to a far reaching impact.

In this first post, I will share a mistake that I have seen made in multiple companies now that can lead to cascading failure. I call it the Kubernetes deep health check.

List of free Trials/Credit for Managed Kubernetes Services

Interactive grep

This guide presents a simple and developer-friendly GitOps-based CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions, designed for SOC 2 compliance. Having successfully implemented this approach numerous times, I'm sharing an illustrative version for reference. You can explore a working implementation on your own on GitHub (https://github.com/cicd-excellence), or continue reading for a step-by-step breakdown.

Pipedrive Infra operates self-managed Kubernetes clusters in different clouds, mainly AWS and on-premise OpenStack.

At the time of writing, we manage over 20 different clusters — more and less specific, big and small.

Tableau announced that you can run their server on Kubernetes back in 2021. Now that it’s been a few years, let’s take a look and see how it is to setup.

Maximize GPU utilization and reduce infrastructure costs.

Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.

A how-to-guide for Healthchecks: Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes for Docker or Kubernetes solutions with Spring Boot and Actuator.

Mayfly is a Kubernetes operator that enables you to have time-based resources. They creates or deletes on the specified time.