Stories Tag: infrastructure

Experience and Suggestions from Alibaba Kubernetes Application Management Practices | Medium

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By Sun Jianbo, a Technical Expert at Alibaba, and Zhao Yuying In the cloud-native era, Kubernetes is becoming increasingly important. However, most Internet companies have not successfully explored Kubernetes as expected, and the complexity of Kubernetes is enough to discourage a group of developers. In this article, Alibaba Technical Expert Sun Jianbo provides some experience and suggestions based on Alibaba Kubernetes application management practices to…

Centralized Logging and Monitoring with Kubernetes | by eKRAAL Innovation Hub | eKRAALHub | Apr, 2021 | Medium

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The purpose of this article is to give a general introduction to what is expected when trying to set up the Kubernetes infrastructure. Cloud computing adoption is expected to rise in the next couple of years with most organizations retaining 40% of their IT infrastructure on-premises. NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to computing resources rapidly provisioned…

Infrastructural Maturity and Return of Investment (ROI) with Containerization | by ⚗ Kevin Summersill 🔋 | Apr, 2021 | Medium

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Many organizations have their own model on what they determine as “Infrastructural Maturity”. However, they never identify and describe what this looks like. These organizations do not describe how to do this by using actual technology. Instead, they utilize buzz words that track marketing. Some of these words include containerization, DevSecOps, GitOps, Scalability, Availability, and Value Stream Mapping. The truth about Infrastructural Maturity is that…

UnDistro, uma (un)distribution Kubernetes | Medium

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English version here. Trabalhamos e fornecemos suporte para Kubernetes desde o seu início, em 2015. O Kubernetes e as arquiteturas cloud-native aumentaram sua presença em um ritmo surpreendente em, praticamente, todas as empresas, independentemente do segmento. Ao longo desses anos, tivemos a oportunidade de trabalhar e ajudar dezenas de empresas, vendo de perto e em primeira mão como essa tecnologia pode ser transformadora e como…

Microservices Transition — why, what, how | by Ankur Dahiya | Apr, 2021 | Run[X]

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The Microservices architecture has become increasingly popular lately. Especially with the rise of Kubernetes, it has gained mainstream attention and a lot of organizations are weighing this transition as they run into scaling limits. In this post, we’ll try to summarize the current set of industry best practices that define the why/what/how of such a transition. As an application/codebase grows, it starts running into scaling…

Interact with Kubernetes resources in PHP 8 | by Alex Renoki | Mar, 2021 | Medium

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I’ve been using Kubernetes for about 3 years now, and I was amazed so much by the fact that there is so much versatility from any programming language when using Kubernetes. Any single interface that can make HTTP requests will talk smoothly with any Kubernetes cluster. One of the problems I faced was to be able to communicate with my Kubernetes clusters in PHP. GO…

Introduction to the Wise Platform team | by Laura Woo | Wise Engineering | Mar, 2021 | Medium

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With the rapid growth of Wise and our platform over the last few years, teams within the Platform tribe have formed and disbanded organically. While this refactoring of teams will continue to evolve over time, we’ve reached a place where we need to become more mature in terms of our offerings to the wider Engineering community — really showcasing what platform has to offer. Let’s…

Sync your resources on Kubernetes with GitOps | by Yoan de LUCA | Mar, 2021 | Medium

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How to synchronise your secrets and configMaps hosted on Git with your Kubernetes cluster using modern tools. We heard a lot about syncing secrets on Kubernetes using SealedSecrets, Vault, … But I did not find an example that fits my needs and it seems like there are multiple ways to do it. Let’s make it simple ! The old dirty process before GitOps : The…

Reducing AWS data transfer cost — Going Multi-AZ to Single-AZ Kubernetes | by Grofers Blog | Grofers | Mar, 2021...

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The only silver lining for us during COVID-19 was that we got a chance to optimize our resources in our run to cut costs — a long-pending activity. All the teams across the organization were focused on reducing the operating costs as much as possible. Similarly, DevOps teams were mainly concerned with costs related to our infrastructure. Cross-AZ data transfer cost was one of the…

Updating Kubernetes CA certificates the hard way | by Denis GERMAIN | Feb, 2021 | Deezer I/O

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In this article, we will share our experience with a tricky situation we found ourselves in a few months ago. It involves Kubernetes clusters, CA certificates, Hashicorp Vault, and transparent operations in production for millions of users. So buckle up; it might be a bumpy ride! At Deezer, Kubernetes has been deployed and used in production for more than three years. Today, there are tons…