What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that offers capabilities such as auto scaling, auto healing, clustering and enterprise level support like load balancing. It is these capabilities that makes Kubernetes (K8s) such an important open-source containerization platform in comparison to Docker. K8s leverages multi-environment multi-container deployments. K8S…

What is Jenkins? Jenkins is an open-source CI/CD server used for automation. The tool is written in Java and it essentially allows developers to build, test and deploy software. Why Jenkins? We have many CI/CD systems — Gitlab CI/CD, GitHub CI/CD, CircleCI, Travis CI, Bitbucket pipeline etc. Each tool has a different unique…

What is Docker? Docker is a platform that packages software into standardized units called containers that allows you to separate your application from underlying infrastructure by bundling up your code and all of its dependencies into a self-contained entity that will run the same on any supported system. Why Docker? We can barely mention Docker…

The exercises in this article are based on the #90DaysofDevops challenge Day 8 to Day 12. The article, however, is not confined to the content of the challenges but digs deeper into the Git and GitHub basics. Happy Learning! What is Git? Git is a distributed version control system that…

This article has been inspired by #90DaysofDevops challenge by Shubham Londhe and the ALX SE System Engineering and DevOps project. Navigation The ‘pwd’ command (print working directory) is used to print the absolute path name of the current working directory. To list the contents of the current directory: #ls command lists…

In this guide , we will learn How to Provision a Highly-Available VPC Architecture using CloudFormation. No prior experience is needed prior to this lab. Network Diagram First, we develop a diagram to visualize the design of our deployment and act as a visual aid to understand the CloudFormation script. What is AWS CloudFormation? …

HOW TO CREATE AN ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER IN AWS In this article we aim to take a step by step journey into creating an ELB. But first, what is a Load Balancer? Simply put, an ELB is a AWS cloud service that automatically distributes incoming traffic from applications or other…

What happens when you type https://www.google.com (or other domain) in your browser and press Enter? Every time when we visit a web page in our browser, the first thing we do is for matches in a search engine like Google or type the complete name of the page in the top address bar; if server response success we will see a nice page with all…