Kubernetes
How to set up a local Kubernetes cluster on Windows to test applications easily
Containerized applications offer many advantages over traditional deployments, from ease of management to scalability and isolation. Hence, combining containerized applications with a proper orchestration engine is the best way to manage modern applications in both staging and production environments.
As Windows Developers, we need a proper Kubernetes environment to test our applications. This article focuses on setting up a local Kubernetes cluster that enables us to test our applications easily. To do this, we will cover:
March 18, 2019 | 9 min read
Platform Engineering
DevOps, GitOps, and the Rise of Cloud-Native Engineering
February 14, 2019 | 8 min read
Article
Organizations are increasingly deploying multiple Kubernetes clusters to improve availability, isolation and scalability. Learn about the benefits of building multi-cluster Kubernetes applications, how to architect them, and the strategies available for implementing them.
What is Multi-Cluster?
Multi-cluster is a strategy for deploying an application on or across multiple Kubernetes clusters with the goal of improving availability, isolation, and scalability.
September 25, 2018 | 5 min read
Edge Stack API Gateway
People ask a common question “should I use Edge Stack API Gateway if I’m using a service mesh (usually Istio)?” After all, both Ambassador and Istio are built on the Envoy Proxy. Moreover, Istio recently added support for explicitly managing ingress with the Gateway abstraction. So, do you need an API Gateway if you’re using a service mesh?
Ambassador (and API Gateways in general) focus on north/south traffic, i.e., traffic into your data center. Istio (and other service meshes) handle east/west traffic, i.e., traffic between services in your data center. If your service mesh already manages L7 traffic, can you use it for managing north/south traffic?
TL; DR
September 14, 2018 | 5 min read
Edge Stack API Gateway
Description
Onefootball is a media company with more than 10M monthly active users delivering more than 10 TB daily content. We needed a Kubernetes-based API Gateway and Ingress solution that could handle our 6,000 rps workload reliably and efficiently. In this session, we'll talk about why we chose the open source Edge Stack Kubernetes API gateway, and how we made the migration to it. We will cover the challenges identified and the benefits we've seen, like:
Cost reduction: Reduced the number of cloud-based load balancers from ~100 to 4.
September 6, 2018 | 27 min read
Kubernetes, Telepresence
Guide to setting up a local Kubernetes cluster on Windows Home to test applications easily.
Containerized applications offer many advantages over traditional deployments, from ease of management to scalability and isolation. Hence, combining containerized applications with a proper orchestration engine is the best way to manage modern applications in staging and production environments.
As Windows Developers, we need a proper Kubernetes environment to test our applications. Windows Home handles most computing needs; Windows Pro offers more networking options and is more suited to small and medium-sized businesses that need to manage multiple machines. If you’re a Windows Home user, you can still create the required environment to set up and use Kubernetes clusters.
August 24, 2018 | 8 min read
