Posts in 2015
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Managing Kubernetes Pods, Services and Replication Controllers with Puppet
Thursday, December 17, 2015 in Blog
Today’s guest post is written by Gareth Rushgrove, Senior Software Engineer at Puppet Labs, a leader in IT automation. Gareth tells us about a new Puppet module that helps manage resources in Kubernetes. People familiar with Puppet might have used it …
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How Weave built a multi-deployment solution for Scope using Kubernetes
Saturday, December 12, 2015 in Blog
Today we hear from Peter Bourgon, Software Engineer at Weaveworks, a company that provides software for developers to network, monitor and control microservices-based apps in docker containers. Peter tells us what was involved in selecting and …
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Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list (Part 1)
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 in Blog
At Devoxx Belgium and Devoxx Morocco, Ray Tsang and I showed a Raspberry Pi cluster we built at Quintor running HypriotOS, Docker and Kubernetes. For those who did not see the talks, you can check out an abbreviated version of the demo or the full …
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Monitoring Kubernetes with Sysdig
Thursday, November 19, 2015 in Blog
Today we’re sharing a guest post by Chris Crane from Sysdig about their monitoring integration into Kubernetes. Kubernetes offers a full environment to write scalable and service-based applications. It takes care of things like container grouping, …
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One million requests per second: Dependable and dynamic distributed systems at scale
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 in Blog
Recently, I’ve gotten in the habit of telling people that building a reliable service isn’t that hard. If you give me two Compute Engine virtual machines, a Cloud Load balancer, supervisord and nginx, I can create you a static web service that will …
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Kubernetes 1.1 Performance upgrades, improved tooling and a growing community
Monday, November 09, 2015 in Blog
Author: David Aronchick (Google) Since the Kubernetes 1.0 release in July, we’ve seen tremendous adoption by companies building distributed systems to manage their container clusters. We’re also been humbled by the rapid growth of the community who …
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Kubernetes as Foundation for Cloud Native PaaS
Tuesday, November 03, 2015 in Blog
With Kubernetes continuing to gain momentum as a critical tool for building and scaling container based applications, we’ve been thrilled to see a growing number of platform as a service (PaaS) offerings adopt it as a foundation. PaaS developers have …
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Some things you didn’t know about kubectl
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 in Blog
kubectl is the command line tool for interacting with Kubernetes clusters. Many people use it every day to deploy their container workloads into production clusters. But there’s more to kubectl than just kubectl create -f or kubectl rolling-update. …
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Kubernetes Performance Measurements and Roadmap
Thursday, September 10, 2015 in Blog
No matter how flexible and reliable your container orchestration system is, ultimately, you have some work to be done, and you want it completed quickly. For big problems, a common answer is to just throw more machines at the problem. After all, more …
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Using Kubernetes Namespaces to Manage Environments
Friday, August 28, 2015 in Blog
One of the advantages that Kubernetes provides is the ability to manage various environments easier and better than traditional deployment strategies. For most nontrivial applications, you have test, staging, and production environments. You can spin …