Tag Archives: Kubernetes

Using Rancher For Creating And Managing Kubernetes Clusters

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How can we create and manage Kubernetes clusters on-prem or in Cloud? How can we manage our clusters across providers and regions? Can Rancher and Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) help us with those and other similar tasks? Can we use it to manage clusters no matter whether they are in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), DigitalOcean, Linode, VMWare, and other Cloud providers as well as in our own on-prem datacenters?

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Tekton – Kubernetes Cloud-Native CI/CD Pipelines And Workflows

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Tekton is a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems aiming at becoming a de-facto standard for running pipelines and workflows in Kubernetes. It allows developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premise systems.

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Shipa – A Kubernetes platform from developer’s perspective

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Can we have a platform that helps developers deploy, manage, and monitor their applications without going into all the details behind Kubernetes? Shipa might be one such platform.

In this video, we’re exploring Shipa from the developer’s perspective. One of the upcoming videos will go through parts of Shipa related to the work operators, sysadmins, SREs, or platform managers are doing.

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Cloud-Native Apps With Open Application Model (OAM) And KubeVela

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Can we define cloud-native applications without dealing with resources related to underlying platforms? One possible solution is to use the Open Application Model (OAM) combined with KubeVela.

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K3d – How to run Kubernetes cluster locally using Rancher k3s

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k3d is a lightweight wrapper to run Rancher k3s in Docker. k3d allows us to create single-node and multi-node k3s clusters in Docker, for local development on Kubernetes, or as temporary testing environment.

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How to apply policies in Kubernetes using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper

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Gatekeeper is a validating (mutating TBA) webhook that enforces Kubernetes CRD-based policies executed by Open Policy Agent (OPA), a policy engine for Cloud Native environments.

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How to Apply GitOps to Everything – Combining Argo CD and Crossplane

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How to manage infrastructure, applications, and services? How to apply GitOps principles to everything? How to ensure that all the resources are always in-sync? Can we combine infrastructure, application, and service management using ArgoCD and Crossplane?

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How to run local multi-node Kubernetes clusters using kind

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kind allows us to run local Kubernetes clusters with nodes running as Docker containers.
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EKS Fargate vs. GKE Autopilot – Fully Managed Kubernetes Clusters Compared

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AWS Fargate is the first fully managed Kubernetes service. Google Cloud Autopilot followed. Let’s compare EKS Fargate vs. GKE Autopilot and see what the differences are. Which one is better? Which one should we use?
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