Mar 9, 2020 | Kubernetes, Tips, Video
Without your help, Kubernetes cannot know an app’s resource requirements but optimizing Kubernetes apps can be challenging. This talk, from the February 2020 San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup, delves into several techniques for effectively sizing pod resources,...
Mar 2, 2020 | Kubernetes, Tips, Video
Microservices need an operational tune-up in order to perform their best on Kubernetes. This talk, given at the San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup in February 2020, dives into the essential additions needed for highly-efficient microservice deployments on Kubernetes....
Feb 11, 2020 | Kubernetes, Tips, Video
Kubernetes initContainers run when a pod is first initialized. Their job is to run bootstrapping tasks before a pod’s primary application container runs. InitContainers are great for separating preparation steps from operations. They run in sequence, each one...
Jan 7, 2020 | Kubernetes, Tips, Video
(Jan. 7 2020) – In this quick video, we answer the question of how Ingresses in Kubernetes work. Ingresses manage external access to services and pods within a cluster. We start with three pods in our cluster, with their IP addresses ending at .9, .17, and...
Jan 3, 2020 | Kubernetes, Tips, Video
(Jan. 3 2020) – This quick video explains how you configure Kubernetes pods to control Kubernetes itself with raw API calls. Most users interact with Kubernetes using kubectl. kubectl itself is a sophisticated wrapper for “curl” and communicates with a...
Jul 26, 2019 | Kubernetes, Video
(Jul. 26 2019) – Though the relational data model inherently fights horizontal scaling attempts, it is the best understood and most used data model in the world. More than one company has planted its storage flag in the MySQL/MariaDB soil only to be confounded...
