I wanted to start off this blog with a real-world problem one of our content delivery customers faced. Let’s name this customer “XYZ”. XYZ runs 10 node Kubernetes clusters in each of their regions and they have about four regions spread across different geographies. To...
Microservices, Containers, Kubernetes & Cloud Native have become the de facto choice of technology for almost all types of applications such as 5G, IOT, Blockchain etc. When such organizations start their journey, they invariably start with Kubernetes along with containerization of the workloads. The...
We need to think of error budgets as a balance we have in our pocket for the amount of risk that we can take in a given period. This balance arises out of not setting up the SLOs to straight 100% due to high operational...
The first thing that we need to understand in respect of setting up a Service Level Objective (SLO) is Risk and Availability. You might expect your service provider to build a 100% reliable service but remember that after meeting a certain point of reliability,...
Security of containers and it's orchestrator Kubernetes is a huge topic, and there are many dimensions to the problem. Given that there are different aspects, there is no one vendor that provides a comprehensive solution, but one can put together a stack of 2-3 vendors...
In the earlier post we discussed various types of Kubernetes distribution and players for each aspect of the distribution. In this blog, we will change gears to look at monitoring and where do they fit in the stack ?. Before getting on with the Monitoring discussion, let’s define...
The reader may be aware that the linux kernel by itself is not the comprehensive operating system but different distributions take vanilla linux kernel and add required packages on top of it to make it into a distribution. The kind of packaging makes a distribution different from the other...
In the earlier post, we looked at advantages of Kubernetes from a business perspective. In this post, we will take a look at challenges when adopting Kubernetes from a business perspective. Overkill for simple applications. Though, Kubernetes works great for decently sized applications and large applications but...
Marc Andreessen penned his famous article on "Why Software Is Eating the World" in The Wall Street Journal about a decade ago. Oh Boy! We have travelled a long way. Today, not only strong digital presence is necessary but also ability to innovate and modify...