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Kublr 1.14. RBAC for Centralized Logging & Cluster Definition w/ Multiple User Instance Groups
Committed to providing reliable and secure Kubernetes across the enterprise, Kublr 1.14. brings further improvements to the UI, operations functionalities, and introduces support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. User Interface Additions Kublr is the most… Read more…
Multi-Site Orchestration, Breaking the Next Frontier of Enterprise Kubernetes Adoption
While multi-site Kubernetes orchestration has numerous benefits, all of which have the potential to translate into a significant competitive edge, it still largely remains elusive — at least in the vendor space. The reason? Well,… Read more…
A Closer Look at Kubernetes: Its Origins and Why It Matters
Explained for Business Leaders
Since Google open sourced Kubernetes in 2014, it has become one of the most popular open source projects. Adopted by all major cloud providers, Kubernetes has undoubtedly become the de facto container orchestrator. But what… Read more…
Understanding Kubernetes Operators
The Operator SDK Helps Create Stateful Kubernetes Deployments
Almost every Kubernetes tutorial speaks about how to quickly deploy a container in a pod and expose it as a service. Mostly these tutorials focus on stateless services and ignore a deeper explanation of state management in… Read more…
Setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, Nexus, and Kubernetes
Improving engineer productivity through a proper CI/CD process
This is the first in a series of tutorials on setting up a secure production-grade CI/CD pipeline. We’ll use Kublr to manage our Kubernetes cluster, Jenkins, Nexus, and your cloud provider of choice or a… Read more…
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Knowing Which Way to Scale a Cluster Helps Optimize Performance and Resources
Not only does it deploy and manage containers, Kubernetes autoscaling enables users to automatically scale the overall solution in numerous ways. This is a tremendous asset, especially in the modern cloud, where costs are based… Read more…
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Saving cost, improving performance of data science workloads with k8s
Kublr and Kubernetes can help make your favorite data science tools easier to deploy and manage. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) carries the burden of storing big data; Spark provides many powerful tools to process… Read more…
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Orchestrating Storage with Kubernetes and Implications for Persisting State
Leverage persistence solutions like Ceph, Rook as a storage orchestrator for Kuberentes storage and remain cloud-agnostic and flexible.
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Balancing cloud-native with enterprise governance and security requirements
Cloud-native technologies are radically changing the IT landscape. Developed for the cloud, cloud-native is certainly not cloud-bound. Increasingly more companies seek to benefit from cloud-like features in their own data centers. While challenging to implement,… Read more…
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Modern enterprise requirements for an agile release lifecycle
While Docker and Kubernetes are at the core of today’s app development paradigm shift, running the new stack reliably and securely requires much more – from security and governance to visibility into applications and infrastructure.
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Native Kubernetes only vs Kubernetes + additional Open Source Technology
Deploying a new feature or application version can be daunting. Even with today’s advanced testing tools, something can still go wrong once deployed in production. Rolling it out to all users is risky and could have serious business implications.
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Correlating log and metric events using Grafana and Kibana
Want a lab that’s fun to run and beneficial for learning about troubleshooting using logging and monitoring? We’ve got your tutorial! One of the advantages of centralized logging and monitoring, which is available with Kublr’s… Read more…
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It’s not a question of either/or, but rather manual vs automated deployment and management
Docker and Kubernetes platforms are a hot topic, yet there still seems to be some confusion about how they relate to one another. Do you need Docker if you have Kubernetes? We can clearly spell… Read more…
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Tutorials for passing selected images to Helm for Kubernetes deployments
There’s an easy way to fetch Docker images for Kubernetes deployment. The technique uses Jenkins Groovy scripting to query external API to populate a parameter box dynamically with Docker image tags from Dockerhub or a… Read more…
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Step-by-step tutorial Istio Service Mesh Tutorial (Part 2)
As the second part in our series of Istio service mesh tutorials, this article provides step-by-step instructions for canary deployments of service mesh using Kublr-in-a-Box. With Kublr-in-a-Box you can create a new Kubernetes cluster on… Read more…
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Simplify Microservice Communication, a Tutorial (Part 1)
Service mesh. Host shared proxy. Sidecar containers. If these terms are unfamiliar, don’t worry. Service mesh a relatively new concept and – judging by the amount of available documentation, public discussion, and GitHub activity –… Read more…
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News of the latest Apache Spark release and its native Kubernetes support excited the whole open source community. Thanks to the new software, there is now first-class support for data processing, data analytics, and machine… Read more…
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Introduction A growing number of software developers are adopting the idea of microservices, where large, monolithic applications are broken down into individual modules. The benefits of the microservices model come with their own obstacles, however.… Read more…
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One of the advantages of using an advanced container orchestration tool like Kubernetes is the flexible scheduler. This provides a wide range of options for users to specify conditions for assigning pods to particular worker… Read more…
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Using Cloud Native Storage, Rook, Ceph, Ingress Controller, and Kubernetes
Containers and Kubernetes can create code that is portable across on-premise VMs, bare metal, and multiple cloud provider environments. Despite this portability promise, developers may include configuration and application definitions that constrain or even eliminate… Read more…
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Just as deployment has reached new velocity, users also expect 100 percent availability. When was the last time you saw a “Site temporarily down for maintenance” page? Consumers and end users expect applications to be… Read more…
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Centralized logging is an important component of any production-grade infrastructure, but it is especially critical in a containerized architecture. If you’re using Kubernetes to run your workloads, there’s no easy way to find the correct… Read more…
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If you’re designing a new application architecture, there are a few critical things to consider. First, it’s important that you choose the right patterns and tools from the get-go. After all, you only have one… Read more…
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This is the second part in a two-part tutorial.
This is the first part of a two-part tutorial. You can find Pt.1 here. Introducing Kublr-Managed Kubernetes You don’t have to install and maintain a complex cluster to benefit from all of the Kubernetes features.… Read more…
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This is the first part of a two-part tutorial.
This is the first part of a two-part tutorial. You can find Pt.2 here. Organizations who host a large portion of their infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) may eventually consider migrating to containers for… Read more…
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If you are interested in migrating from a legacy infrastructure to a container-based approach, Kubernetes is a good choice for orchestrating your future fleet of containers. You can even deploy Kubernetes in air-gapped environments. In… Read more…
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As organizations grow and mature, so does the organization’s data. Eventually, the data may become too ‘big’ or too complicated for traditional analytics tools. This growth and resulting challenge has led to many well-established artificial… Read more…
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What are containers? Where does Kubernetes fit in? What tools do you need for a successful implementation? Container use is exploding right now. Developers love them and enterprises are embracing them at an unprecedented rate.… Read more…
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A 101 on Kubernetes components and how they all work together
Updated in September 2019 If you’re migrating your distributed applications to containers, you’ll need a container orchestration platform and, if you’re reading this article, chances are you’re considering Kubernetes. You may ask yourself: What’s… Read more…
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This is a step-by-step tutorial, which shows single master Kubernetes cluster installation, for development, staging, and QA environments. It’s important to note that you don’t have to run production workloads on a single master cluster.… Read more…
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New container orchestration tools like Kubernetes are changing the DevOps approach to configuration management and deployment at scale. In this post, we’ll take a look at how earlier solutions such as Chef and Ansible approach… Read more…
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Modern development requires Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and its emphasis on building and running tests on every commit to ensure your development/test environment is always up-to-date. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how… Read more…
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If you are planning to deploy Fuse ESB in a Kubernetes cluster, you may need to integrate it with a message broker. (For more details on deploying Red Hat JBoss Fuse, read our blog, Deploying… Read more…
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Software architectures frequently require asynchronous interactions. However, messaging is only one of many middleware components required in your architecture. You shouldn’t spend too much time starting and configuring your messaging component. When planning how to… Read more…
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Red Hat JBoss Fuse has been the de-facto standard for building Java Web/RESTful services for over a decade. But how do you run it effectively in today’s Cloud-centric world? As you’ll see, an infrastructure-as-a-code and… Read more…
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Ditch the management overhead and get production-ready, out-of-the-box Under pressure to deliver applications faster and ensure 24/7 runtime, organizations are increasingly adopting a cloud native technologies to deliver applications quicker and in an automated fashion.… Read more…
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Today there’s little debate regarding the importance of monitoring for every deployment, whether in your production or development environment. However, monitoring can turn into a full-time job. A smaller scale monitoring stack can help, adding… Read more…
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You’ve probably heard that Kubernetes on the Microsoft Azure Container Service (ACS) is now generally available. This is great news for the developer community. With a production-ready ACS for K8S, you’ll now be able to use it… Read more…
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After you have successfully setup your Kubernetes cluster, have built Docker images with your applications or microservices, and see them running, the next step is to configure a proper monitoring and alerting mechanism so that… Read more…
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MySQL replication is a valuable feature and asset in Kubernetes (K8S), allowing for redundancy, increased availability and potential performance improvements. Follow this guide to learn how to setup your MySQL replication cluster. We will use… Read more…
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In this post, we’ll help you understand the automatic pod eviction and rescheduling that occurs when a particular host resource is being depleted. The “kubelet” agent daemon is installed on all Kubernetes hosts to manage… Read more…
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Running and managing stateful applications or databases such as MongoDB, Redis, and MySql, with Docker containers, is no simple task. Stateful applications must retain their data after a container has been shut down or migrated… Read more…
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If HAL isn’t going to unlock the pod bay doors for you, you probably have an issue with your users running wild in a large production Kubernetes cluster. These and a range of other issues… Read more…
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We’re excited to announce Microsoft Azure support for the Kubernetes auto scaling module, an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This feature, now available on the Kubernetes GitHub repository, provides… Read more…
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While working on a project build environment in AWS using Kubernetes as a container orchestration engine, we recently hit a brick wall which threatened to disrupt our continuous delivery experience. In addition to these technologies,… Read more…