Can Jsonnet with Tanka replace Helm and Kustomize?
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Eliminate Kubernetes Secrets With Secrets Store CSI Driver (SSCSID)
“Kubernetes secrets are not secure enough!” If that’s true, maybe we should eliminate them altogether. Can we do that? Can we live without Kubernetes secrets? Is Secrets Store CSI Driver (SSCSID) the solution?
Continue readingKEDA: Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is limited to memory and CPU metrics. It can be extended with custom metrics, but that might not be enough either. KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) might be the solution for all (horizontal) scaling needs.
Continue readingAutomate Dependency Management With Renovate
How do you manage dependency updates? If the answer is “manually”, you might want to check out Renovate.
Continue readingkpt YAML Transformation – No Helm Templates, No Kustomize Overlays
Why don’t we use “pure” YAML to define Kubernetes resources? Wouldn’t that be more “GitOps friendly” than using Helm templates or Kustomize overlays? Can kpt get us back to “pure” YAML?
Continue readingContainer (Docker) Images Without Dockerfile With Buildpacks and kpack
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?
Continue readingWhat 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.
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