Kubernetes is huge, and sooner than later, you perceive yourself doing this question: How much more should I explore this technology? What path to follow? It depends on the market of your region and your custom goals. I will help you clarify it today with a custom list of Kubernetes Features, their importance (in general), […]
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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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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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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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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
Reliable & Affordable K8s Hosting: Deploy Apps for 5 Euros/mo Read More »
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
Managing SSL in your K8s Homelab: Professional Grade Read More »
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
How to access your K8s cluster apps: K8s’ network 101 Read More »
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
What is Kubernetes Ingress, and How it works? Read More »
