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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Originally designed by Google, the project is now maintained by a worldwide community of contributors, and the trademark is held by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
How to Use Helm for Package Management in Kubernetes
Somewhere around my fifteenth YAML file for a single application — Deployment, Service, ConfigMap, Secret, Ingress, HPA —…
How to Implement Network Policies in Kubernetes
Something that surprised me when I first started using Kubernetes was how open the default network is. By…
How to Set Up Horizontal Pod Autoscaling in Kubernetes
Manually adjusting replica counts based on traffic patterns is one of those tasks that feels manageable until it…
How to Monitor Kubernetes Clusters with Prometheus
I’ve never trusted a Kubernetes cluster I couldn’t see into. Pods can restart, nodes can silently run low…
How to Perform Rolling Updates in Kubernetes
Rolling updates are the default way most people ship changes to Kubernetes, and honestly, they’re the strategy I…
How to Deploy a Stateful Application on Kubernetes
For a long time, “Kubernetes is for stateless apps” was conventional wisdom, and running a database on it…
How to Create a Persistent Volume in Kubernetes
Containers are meant to be ephemeral — kill one, start another, nobody should notice. That’s a great property…
How to Configure Kubernetes RBAC
Every cluster I’ve inherited that wasn’t set up carefully from day one had the same problem: nearly everyone…
How to Expose a Service in Kubernetes
One of the first questions I get from people new to Kubernetes is some version of “I deployed…
How to Scale Deployments in Kubernetes
Scaling is one of the reasons people adopt Kubernetes in the first place, and yet it’s also one…