Can we build container (Docker) images without Dockerfile? Do we need Dockerfile or can we accomplish the same or better results with Buildpacks, Paketo, and kpack?
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What Is Kubernetes (k8s)? Kubernetes Explained
What is Kubernetes (k8s)? A container orchestrator? Cluster OS? A control plane? Something else?
Continue readingHow Autoscaling Works In Kubernetes (And Beyond)? Kubernetes Tutorial
What is autoscaling? How to scale applications and Kubernetes clusters? What is the difference between vertical and horizontal scaling? Should we combine Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), and Cluster Autoscaler (CA) in Kubernetes?
Continue readingTanzu Kuberentes Platform By VMware
VMWare Tanzu Community Edition is a Kubernetes platform that competes with Rancher and OpenShift. Is it any good? Should you use it?
Continue readingCloud-Native Applications And NOT Infrastructure Code – Klotho
Wouldn’t it be great if we would not need to define infrastructure but let applications themselves figure out what to do, where to run, and how to do all that? Klotho enables us to write Cloud-native microservices and applications and auto-magically get infrastructure and the code that ties it all together.
Continue readingDevelopment Environments Made Easy With Tilt Rebuilds And Live Updates
How can we build, rebuild, deploy, update, test, and do other types of actions when developing applications? Tilt might be just the solution to help up be more efficient when developing applications.
Continue readingMutable And Immutable Objects And Resources Explained
What are mutable and immutable objects and resources? Does immutability apply to bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), applications, Cloud, containers, infrastructure, Kubernetes, etc.? What does mutability and immutability mean? Mutable vs. immutable explained.
Continue readingTalos: Linux Designed For Kubernetes
Talos is Linux designed for Kubernetes. It’s secure, immutable, and minimal.
Huge thanks to Alfadil Tabar for making this video happen.
Continue readingCost-Aware Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling With Cast AI
Cast AI allows us to cut costs by autoscaling and to rightsize our Kubernetes clusters.
Continue readingRunning Event-Driven Pub/Sub Microservices In Kubernetes With Dapr
Dapr simplifies microservice communication through direct or event-based pub/sub messaging and helps us develop resilient and secured microservices. It performs service discovery, message broker integration, encryption, observability, secret management, and many other tasks. In this video, we are focusing on pub/sub events.
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