Strategies for Modernizing Applications
Learn 7 strategies you can utilize to modernize your applications and take advantage of AWS cloud native services
Kubernetes
What is Application Modernization?
Learn what modernizing applications on the cloud entails and the various approaches you can leverage to meet your application modernization goals
Deploy Production-Grade Kubernetes in minutes with Amazon EKS Blueprints
Amazon EKS Blueprints helps you deploy production-grade Kubernetes clusters in minutes. Learn about some of the key features, terminology and use cases for Amazon EKS Blueprints.
Improving Kubernetes Security with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
Many multinational organizations now run their applications on microservice architecture inside their cloud environments, and (many) administrators are responsible for defining multiple policies on those environments. These giant IT organizations have extensive infrastructure systems and their systems have their own policy modules or their own built-in authorization systems. This is an excellent solution to a …
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KubeMQ: A Kubernetes-Native Message Queue Solution
These days, the competition between enterprise organizations is cutthroat. Every organization is looking to exchange information between their systems instantly, in real-time or near-realtime, to make better and faster decisions. For such information to flow continuously, the integration between application components needs to be seamless. To take all the benefits of cloud computing, an application …
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Kubernetes Cluster Federation with Admiralty
Kubernetes today is a hugely prevalent tool in 2021, and more organizations are increasingly running their applications on multiple clusters of Kubernetes. But these multiple cluster architectures often have a combination of multiple cloud providers, multiple data centres, multiple regions, and multiple zones where the applications are running. So, deploying your application or service on …
Working with Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes
The main reason behind containerization is to allow microservices to run in a stateless way. A container will receive provisioned cloud resources, perform its tasks, and then be destroyed as soon as the process is over. There are no traces of that container or tied up cloud resources to worry about. This was what has …
CDK8S for Kubernetes: How to interact with Kubernetes without KubeCTL
Introduction Kubernetes has become the most popular DevOps tools in the industry. From startups to enterprises, everyone is leveraging the power of containerization by running their application in containers inside the Kubernetes cluster. To work with Kubernetes, you need to create YAML files which contain all the cluster resources, services, deployments detail. YAML is human-readable …
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Cost Optimization on AWS EKS Clusters
Containerization and modern cloud infrastructure have made it possible to deploy even the most complex applications without making big initial investments. With most cloud computing models, you pay fixed fees only for the resources you use, and you are all set. Scaling up (and down) becomes easier too since you are not actually investing in …
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Understanding Kubernetes Operators
Automation is one of the fundamental components that makes Kubernetes so robust as a containerization engine. Even complex cloud infrastructure creation can be automated in order to simplify the process of managing cloud deployments. Despite the capability of leveraging so many resources and components to support an application, your cloud environment can still be fairly …
50+ Useful Kubernetes Tools for 2020
Whether you’re new to K8s or an old hand, this list will be your companion guide for enhancing every stage of your development pipeline with Kubernetes.
50+ Useful Kubernetes Tools for 2020 – Part 2
Updated September 2020 50+ Useful Kubernetes Tools for 2020 – Part 2 Table of Contents: Introduction Kube Cluster Deployment Tools Monitoring Tools Testing Security Helpful CLI Tools Development Tools Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery Pipeline Serverless/Function Tools Service Mesh Tools Native Service Discovery Native Visualization & Control Introduction Last year, we provided a list of Kubernetes …
How to Create Your Own Kubernetes Custom Resources
As a platform for managing containerized services and workloads, Kubernetes is incredibly modular. Modularity is more than just a theme; even controllers and resources that are native to Kubernetes are now being built as custom resources and controllers, all for the sake of expanding the platform’s modularity to the next level. Of course, Kubernetes custom …
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A Kubernetes Service Mesh Tool Comparison for 2020
Service mesh is not a new concept, but its implementation for connecting microservices running on top of Kubernetes as a containerization platform makes the idea of having a service mesh more popular. Without a service mesh, each microservice needs to be configured to accept (and send) connections to other microservices it needs to communicate with. …
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Leveraging Kubernetes Open Policy Agent
One of the big challenges of going cloud-native and using containers is enforcing security and usage policies. This is an easy task to complete when the cloud infrastructure is relatively simple and has only a limited number of users. Once the cloud environment becomes complex or there are more end-users utilizing cloud resources, having clear …
Kubernetes Pod Security Policies
Kubernetes was not famous for its security features when it was first introduced as a container orchestration system, but the platform has evolved a lot over the years. Aside from being portable and infrastructure-agnostic, Kubernetes also offers a wide range of security features and tools that can help you harden the security of your apps …
From Docker Compose to Kubernetes
There are multiple ways to deploy a cloud-native app in an efficient environment. Whether you have a single service or hundreds of microservices, you can configure your cloud cluster for maximum performance. The two most popular ways are by utilizing Kubernetes and Docker Compose, with the former being more popular in today’s market. Docker Compose …
Building Cloud-Native Applications with Kubebuilder and Kind
Introduction In this article, we will explore how to use Kubebuilder and Kind to create a local test cluster and an operator. Following that operation, we will then deploy that operator in the cluster and test it. All of the code is included below to port-forward to private endpoints the Kubernetes way. Also, if you want to learn more …
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GitOps for Kubernetes
Cloud-native applications are dominating the market with their improved performance and high efficiency. While there are more resources to support cloud-native applications running as microservices, managing complex cloud architecture is still a challenge. The more microservices you run, the more tasks you will have to deal with in order to keep the cloud environment healthy …
Implementing Aqua Security to Secure Kubernetes
Despite the maturity of the platform, security is still a big challenge for Kubernetes users. While Kubernetes offers maximum flexibility, modularity, and ease of use in other areas, the complex nature of Kubernetes-based environments means securing the cloud environment completely is a complex task to complete. There are a lot of tools and services that …
