Prometheus is an open-source monitoring framework. It provides out-of-the-box monitoring capabilities for the Kubernetes container orchestration platform. It is the most widely used monitoring tool for the Kubernetes cluster. There are some unique challenges to monitor the Kubernetes cluster. This needs to be addressed by deploy reliable monitoring, alerting and graphing architecture. Prometheus covers a […]
Why Kubernetes Backup is so important ?
Containers are a flexible and efficient way to run IT tasks. Kubernetes is one of the most widely adopted container orchestration platforms. Containers have expanded to run a much wider range of processes, including full-scale applications. Docker Swarn and Apache Mesos are other container orchestration platform exist in the market. In recent times, most enterprise […]
GitOps – Install and Configure Argo CD for Kubernetes
Managing the Kubernetes cluster is very simple if you use the right toolsets. Argo CD is one of the popular tools to manage the Kubernetes clusters in a declarative way. It’s a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. Argo CD helps to manage Application definitions, configurations, and environments in a declarative fashion and version controlled […]
LAB – Setup Google Kubernetes Engine cluster in 10mins
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform and helps to automate application deployment, scaling, and management. Kubernetes platform services are offered by all the major cloud providers. Kubernetes was originally designed by Google (Borg system) and donated to Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Google offers Kubernetes services in the name of GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). When you […]
Kubernetes – CKA sample exam questions
There is no doubt about the fact that the adoption of Kubernetes is expected to grow exceptionally in upcoming years. Kubernetes Job search has been vastly increased by 200% in job portals. The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program was created by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in collaboration with The Linux Foundation. CKA exams […]
Why it’s still worth it to learn Java?
While there are many programming languages out there, Java beats them all in terms of popularity. There are so many reasons behind this immense popularity of Java, while the major ones are object-orientation, platform independence, rich Java API, robust development tools, rich community support, and excellent documentation. So, even with the competition from new languages, […]
GitOps vs Infrastructure as Code
What is GitOps? Why it’s so popular? GitOps is nothing but doing “Infrastructure as Code” right. “Infrastructure as code” is creating infrastructure using code rather than creating it manually. As I mentioned in the previous article, IaC has been evolved over the period, as “Network as code”, “Security as Code”, “Policy as Code” etc. So […]
What is Infrastructure as Code ? IaC
Define all your IT infrastructure as Code instead of creating it manually. So that Infrastructure resources can be easily re-created or replicated. Managing IT infrastructure might be a hard job in the past but not now. In the past, system administrators have to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was […]
AVS Cloud – VMware vSphere on Microsoft Azure
Azure VMware Solution offers VMware vSphere environment on Cloud. This private cloud will be built from dedicated bare-metal hardware on Azure. The minimum initial deployment is three hosts in AVS. Additional hosts can be added one at a time. This AVS vSphere cluster supports up to 16 hosts per cluster. VMware vSphere private cloud have […]
Backup Solution – Azure VMware Solution virtual machines
Azure VMware Solution aka AVS is a private cloud solution on public cloud platforms. Azure VMware Solution provides enterprises with private clouds that contain vSphere clusters, built from dedicated bare-metal Azure infrastructure. AVS brings VMware workloads on Azure public cloud and helps customer to do “lift and shift” from ON-PREM VMware environments to AVS. Backup […]