Manage Kubernetes clusters Introduction As the popularity of Kubernetes grows, so does its complexity. Amazing open source community and healthy vendor ecosystem rush to provide tools and services around cluster management, development, testing, security and many more. In this article, we are going to focus on command-line based tools and plugins…

After working most of my career in corporations, I’ve moved to a tech startup. It took stepping out of my comfort zone and often going against the best-intentioned advice of my friends. In this article, I want to share my journey and where it took me. Along the way, we…

And how can Crossplane Kubernetes Provider help — This article is will be helpful to anyone interested in modern complex software development. For a practical walkthrough using this self-paced Katacoda Scenario, check out this companion video with a guided tour of Crossplane fundamentals and Kubernetes Provider. Modern Development Challenges How much Kubernetes do developers need to know…

In this article, we are going to learn how to automate the provisioning of cloud resources via Crossplane and combine it with GitOps practices. You will most benefit from this blog if you are a Platform or DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Architect or Operations Specialist. If you are new to GitOps…

The Promise of Microservices — There are two main benefits of using a microservices architecture. Enable distributed teams to work independently on parts of a distributed system, thus making Conway’s Law work in our favour. Tame distributed systems complexity by offloading more and more cross-cutting concerns from application code to the underlying infrastructure. In a…

TACOS Providers Review — Introduction This article will help you understand what TACOS are and select a provider based on their capabilities. SREs, Ops Engineers or Architects will find this content useful. If you are a passionate cook or like to know how your cooking skills can help you with Infrastructure as Code, you will…

Introduction to Linkerd service mesh — Introduction Developing with Kubernetes in mind means developing Cloud Native applications. CNCF defines cloud-native as: Cloud-native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach.

Decentralized systems observability has always been challenging. Dealing with latency, distributed transactions, failures etc became increasingly complex. The more abstraction a decentralized system has, the more difficult it is to reason about it, debug and troubleshoot. Debugging on K8s is hard The main reason that makes Kubernetes observability so difficult is the volatile and dynamic…

SAA-CO2 Introduction Cloud certifications can help you achieve your career goals, learn and get better in your day to day tasks and improve your odds if you are searching for a job. Why learn for AWS certification? Out of the 3 major cloud providers, AWS has the most market share with…