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Canary Releases on Kubernetes with Spinnaker, Istio, and Prometheus
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.
Troubleshooting Applications in a Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus
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…
Docker vs. Kubernetes or Docker and Kubernetes?
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…
How to use advanced Jenkins Groovy scripting for live fetching of Docker images
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…
Hands-On Canary Deployments with Istio and Kubernetes
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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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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We are excited to announce that we have attained our CNCF Software Conformance certification — meaning that you can rest assured that our Kubernetes configuration solutions adhere to the rigorous standards as outlined by Cloud Native… 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. In an earlier post (Choosing the Right Containerization and… 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, and 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… Read more…
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A 101 on Kubernetes components and how they all work together If you’re making the move to containers, you’ll need a container management platform. And, if you’re reading this article, chances are you’re considering the benefits… 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 turning to DevOps methodologies to deliver applications quicker and in an automated fashion. But… 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…