Kubernetes

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What is Kubernetes Deployment? (Explanation and Strategies)

Imagine we'd have to manually launch hundreds of containers on many different servers. It wouldn't be fun, and it would take a long time. But Kubernetes makes such a task almost easy.

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Kubernetes Terms: Pods, Containers, Nodes & Clusters

In DevOps, Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool. It is used to deploy & manage containerized applications in an automated way. So, what does the term “containerized” mean? A containerized application is an application that has been packaged as one or more containers. You can think of a container as a

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Top 15 Benefits of Kubernetes in 2023

Optimization is very important in this modern, digitized, highly competitive business environment. One can realize these goals in many ways, but using the right platform is key to helping you reach full potential. This is where solutions like Kubernetes come into the picture.   Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an

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What are Kubernetes Secrets?

A Kubernetes Secret is an object that stores sensitive data, like a password, a certificate, or a token. Generally, an application's sensitive information is packaged with the application binary or passed as environment variables inside a container.

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Kubernetes Architecture Overview for DevOps Enthusiasts

We start with a basic overview of the Kubernetes cluster architecture. We first look at the architecture at a high level, and then we drill down into each of these components. We see what their roles and responsibilities are and how they are configured. And finally, you go through a

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Kubernetes Features Every Beginner Must Know

Kubernetes being the buzz around has made enormous noise in the recent few years because of out of the box features it provides to the companies. It has become a de-facto tool for container deployments on the cloud for the firms around the globe; it has opened up a whole

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Getting Started with Kubernetes: A Beginners Guide

Companies have started embracing the containerized approach. While they all used to have a massive monolithic architecture with thousands of lines of code that grew into a humongous, slow-moving, hard to manage thing, and this is where the problems started. The DevOps experts, developers, and architects are now coming to

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What is Kubernetes Ingress ?

Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing technologies. It’s being adopted by most of the technology-driven organizations. So knowing how it works and how to use it is becoming increasingly important. Kubernetes has a lot of moving parts that serve different purposes. In this article we're going to discuss

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10 Best Kubernetes Courses to Start Learning Online in 2023

Introduction Kubernetes is one of the most popular tools in today's world. Many companies use it for running their apps. Do you want to learn about it? Then you are at the right place. The blog provides you with a list of the best Kubernetes courses you can find online.

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Kubernetes Certification Cost: Is It Worth It?

Kubernetes is one of the most in-demand skills in the IT industry today. Beginners and pros are getting themselves certified to prove their skills. But are these certifications worth the effort and money? The simple answer is yes. These certifications will help you to progress in your career path or

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Advantages of Microservices Architecture

Software development is an ever-evolving process. It demands constant innovation and improvements to meet the growing needs of users and businesses. Today, every software organization would like to embrace DevOps culture. DevOps has completely revolutionized the way software is built and delivered. In the world of DevOps, microservices architecture came

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Kubernetes vs OpenShift: 5 Key Differences

In recent years distributed computing, DevOps, and CI/CD have become mainstream. The adoption of these technologies also paved the way for containers and containerization for shipping production applications. Containerization enables companies to develop and deploy applications that run in isolated user space on the same OS. While it allows

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Kubernetes Learning Curve: How Hard It is to Learn K8s?

Introduction Kubernetes has been around for quite some time. Since then, it has revolutionized the way companies serve their applications to their clients. An app in a container is easy to move around. And it's also easy to clone. Kubernetes can create more containers with that app inside (scale up)

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7 Best Kubernetes Books of All Time in 2023

In the past few years, container technology has been rapidly adopted across all kinds of organizations. As a result, many businesses now run their services on Kubernetes, Google’s popular container management system. When companies adopt the DevOps way of doing things, Kubernetes is one of the preferred tools. Long

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Kubernetes v1.24 Stargazer: What's new?

Introduction Kubernetes v1.24 was released last May 24, 2022. In this article, we will go through notable changes, improvements, breaking removals, and deprecations. It should give you all the information you need to prepare your cluster for this upgrade. Significant Changes 1. Complete removal of Dockershim component Docker has

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What Is CKAD and Why Should You Consider Taking It?

Introduction Skills in container technologies are relevant now more than ever. According to The 10th Annual Open Source Jobs Report, Cloud and Container technologies make the top 1 rank in terms of in-demand skills for IT professionals and this upwards trend is seen to continue in the next decade. One

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What is GitOps and Why Developers Should Care?

GitOps is a methodology for deploying and managing software applications using Git. It is also referred to as "operations as code" or "code-driven operations," and it uses the principles of DevOps to streamline software updates across an organization. It basically uses a collaborative software development model involving Git and Kubernetes.

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Kubernetes Dropping Docker: What Happens Now?

A while ago, Kubernetes announced that it was deprecating Docker. Actually, it was deprecating something called dockershim, and Docker alongside it. Roughly one year after the announcement, Docker was completely removed from Kubernetes. Now, Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. Its job is to pull in container images, start them, stop

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What Is the Cloud Native Computing Foundation?

Open-Source Free Software, What Is That? Before we can explore why the Cloud Native Computing Foundation was needed, we have to get a basic understanding about what open-source free software is, and how it's maintained. Let's take Linux as an example. Linus Torvalds wanted an operating system of his own

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21 Popular Kubernetes Interview Questions and Answers

The article focuses on answering the frequently asked Kubernetes interview questions. These questions will help you prepare for your interview and revise the concepts of Kubernetes. Q. What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source orchestration platform that performs different tasks like deployment, scaling, management, and monitoring

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Container Runtime Interfaces In K8s

Introduction In this article, we will be discussing what a container runtime interface (CRI) is, why is it important and what functionality it adds to Kubernetes. What are Container Runtimes? You may have read about and heard the terms describing Kubernetes as a “container orchestration tool” that is actually right

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Tips and Tricks to Pass the CKA and CKAD Exam

If you do a quick search online, you would quickly notice that a lot of people are claiming that they have taken and passed the CKA and CKAD examinations. In case you are wondering, the CKAD is the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer exam, while the CKA is the Certified Kubernetes

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Helm Best Practices and Recommendations

In this blog, we will see what are Helm’s best practices and recommendations. As we develop our charts, we’ll notice we have multiple solutions to most problems. When we can solve something in, say, 8 different ways, as beginners, it may be hard to know which path would

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Helm Plugins

In this blog, we will see what are Helm plugins. As we saw, our Helm tool can do many things. But just in case there’s something extra we’d find useful, Helm is extensible. We can add more features, on top of its core functionality, by installing plugins. You

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Uploading a Helm Chart

In this blog, we will see how Uploading a Helm chart can be done. Once we’ve packaged our chart and signed it, it’s time to upload all of our hard work online, so that our users can easily install it with a simple command like helm install my-release