June 2023 – Heffen Vox

Optimize Your GKE Clusters: Apply Kubernetes Cost management

In today’s cloud-driven landscape, cost optimization is critical to managing infrastructure efficiently. As organizations increasingly adopt containerized environments like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for their workloads, understanding how to optimize costs within these environments becomes paramount. GKE, Google Cloud’s managed Kubernetes service, provides a range of built-in features and tools to help users maximize resource […]

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The Challenges and Strategies of Managing Kubernetes Costs

Cloud Cost, Kubernetes

As businesses increasingly embrace the power and scalability of cloud computing, Kubernetes has emerged as a leading container orchestration platform. While Kubernetes offers remarkable benefits in terms of flexibility and resource utilization, it is essential for organizations to effectively manage the costs associated with running applications in a Kubernetes environment. This article will explore the

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Kubernetes monitoring: Prometheus and Grafana

Kubernetes

It’s essential to monitor the resources and applications of your Kubernetes Cluster. Do you still have enough resources for another application? Do you have something crashing constantly? Do you have any pods using more resources than you planned? Why is that? These and other questions can be responded to with a good logging and monitoring

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Reliable & Affordable K8s Hosting: Deploy Apps for 5 Euros/mo

Kubernetes

Starting with Kubernetes in production does not need to be expensive. With some flexibilization, you can publish your first k8s apps in production, spending only around 8 dollars monthly. I will show you in this article, step by step, how you can leverage a cheap (but reliable) VPS hosting to create a single node K8s

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Managing SSL in your K8s Homelab: Professional Grade

Kubernetes

In this article, we are going deeper into Kubernetes Network and exploring some of the best alternatives to create your home lab cluster. This is not a beginner article; most people don’t need to go that far with Kubernetes Cluster to learn and make a useful environment. Although, if you are like me that want

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How to access your K8s cluster apps: K8s’ network 101

Kubernetes

Cluster IP, Names, Domains, Certificates, http, Nodes, internal and external access. Do all these terms look confusing? In this article, let’s discuss a bit more about it, and hopefully, you will have a different experience when facing these terms again later. I will cover some theory and, of course, a lab practice to fix the

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What is Kubernetes Ingress, and How it works?

Kubernetes

So you already started to work with Kubernetes, created the cluster, and deployed the first pods and the first services. Maybe now you can access your web app like this: https://10.0.0.0:30020. That’s cool, but not exactly what you want, right? An address like https://myawesomeapp.com would be way better. It is exactly there where the ingress

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