Kubernetes is an excellent tool for deploying and scaling complex distributed systems, but it’s no secret that getting started with Kubernetes is a challenge. Most Kubernetes tutorials use a tool like Minikube to get you started, which doesn’t teach you much about…
There are many advantages to using containers to run applications. However, ease of storage is certainly not one of them. To do its job, a container must have a temporary file system. But when a container shuts down, any changes made to its file system are lost. A…
Kubernetes was designed to scale. A team can start a small cluster and progressively expand its installation. After a while, the cluster may be running dozens of pods and hundreds of containers, or even more. However, without organization, the number of deployed…
Containerized applications running in Kubernetes almost always need access to external resources that usually require secrets, passwords, keys, or tokens to gain access. Kubernetes Secrets lets you securely store these items, removing the need to store them in Pod…
Kubernetes is the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications. To manage containers effectively, Kubernetes needs a way to check their health to see if they are working correctly and receiving traffic. Kubernetes uses health checks—also known as…
