Kubernetes Dedicate Karpenter Nodes for Specialized Apps We will learn how we can utilize affinity, taints and tolerations with Karpenter NodePools/Provisoner. The goal is to dedicate Kubernetes Nodes for specialized workloads.
Kubernetes Featured Beginner's CI/CD for Kubernetes with GitHub Actions The world of CI/CD tools is overwhelming. When starting out as a Kubernetes developer, do you even need to know so much? Isn't there a quick way to setup a pipeline and get going, focus on building your amazing piece of software.
Kubernetes Multi Cluster Thanos Monitoring Multi-cluster observability is a modern infra necessity. Thanos not just helps with that but it also helps with long term metric retention.
AWS How to use AWS Application Load Balancer with Istio Gateway If you have been using Kubernetes in AWS (EKS), you may have noticed that when you create a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer like this: apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: my-service spec: selector: app: MyApp ports: - protocol: TCP port: 80 targetPort: 8080 type: LoadBalancer AWS provisions a Classic
Kubernetes Deploying Microservices on EKS: A Beginner's Guide (Part 2) We could deploy our blog as a microservice in a Kubernetes cluster last time. You may have noticed that the client-service was the single entry point into the cluster and was also responsible for all the routing. This requirement made us use an express server for exposing a few routes
Kubernetes Deploying Microservices on EKS: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 1) Our core services at Smart Joules are packed up in a monolith application which has steadily grown over the last 2 years. Overall, 8 developers have worked on the application at different points of time. Recently we started realizing what a mammoth of a Node application it has grown into.
