Cloud-native engineering for digital-natives.
If you have been scrolling the web, you would have heard about the terms proxy and reverse proxy at least once. You might know a bit of them or might be completely unaware of what they are. This is completely okay with me, and if you have the desire to understand...
Microservices have lead the human race away from monolithic applications to a cloud native landscape. The dominance of microservices (containers) has impacted the modern development environment to be scalable, flexible and continuous. But as the number of...
Cloud Native Computing Foundation or CNCF is a term you would see flying all around the cloud native landscape. You might know about it a bit as a prominent organization that maintains your frequently used open source tools like Kubernetes, Prometheus (and more!)...
The demand around scalable and reliable services is increasing every day exponentially. The market is driven by customers demanding their favorite services to have zero downtime and companies that lose millions of dollars for every minute they’re down. If you have...
Managing containers while traffic increases or decreases in cost-effective ways round the clock sounds challenging and complex without tools. We, as cloud-native citizens, crave scalability and agility. But our containers going into production without the cloud-native...
Assuming you have an existing cert-manager and nginx in your Kubernetes cluster, the GitLab Helm Chart needs a few tweaks to make use of your existing infrastructure and the ingress. If you start from scratch, check the following posts to learn how to setup a...
If you’d gone through Containers, Unikernels and VMs, I would bet you’re confused about which one to try for your new venture. It’s normal and happens to everyone while experimenting with adopting new technology. Remember the age-old dilemma of you thinking which...
If you're running microservices in Kubernetes, chances are good you need to expose some of them for public access, secured with TLS. In Kubernetes, we have cert-manager to deal with certificate management for us - most prominently it acquires free SSL certificates...
Many applications running Kubernetes are web applications that need to serve HTTP traffic. For scenarios like this, Kubernetes has so called ingress objects that can be used to direct traffic to microservices. Under the hood, the Ingress Controller is powered by tools...
HETZNER is a german cloud provider having very competitive prices for linux-based VMs. It's a great place to run Kubernetes, as HETZNER provides many integrations with their systems we can leverage when running Kubernetes: CSI IntegrationTerraform...