Or knowing the minimum amount so that you can build something… Just hearing “Machine Learning”, “Neural Networks”, etc can be exhausting and honestly incredibly confusing to understand, but does it have to be? In some respects, it will have to be, as with learning any new subject there is core…

Ever wanted to know a field in your Kubernetes yaml definition, but found it ridiculously difficult to find out what it means or even how to use it 😥? kubectl is to the rescue! To get started we can familiarise ourselves with what API resources we have available to use…

Understanding the performance profile of your Node.js applications can be a difficult process, particularly while dealing with an ever-changing landscape in an evolving ecosystem. In this post, I am going to explore looking at Node.js application performance using tools that are compatible with other programming languages, to provide a cross-language…

Providing access to Kubernetes with multiple teams of developers, handling new joiners or people leaving means that the rotation of user access can be a daunting task. …

Securing your Kubernetes cluster is one thing, keeping it secure is a continuous uphill struggle. However, with the introduction of new features to Kubernetes it is becoming much easier to do both. Kubernetes (as of version 1.6) has introduced the concept of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), allows administrators to define…

This post will explore extending the Kubernetes API Admission Controllers by using Webhooks and my own heart rate. The Kubernetes API has a core concept of an “Admission Controller”, these controllers are compiled into the kube-apiserver binary and intercepts API requests before they are persisted to the Kubernetes storage back-end…

It doesn’t need to be hard Getting to grips with Kubernetes can be extremely difficult, with so much information floating around on the seas of the internet, it is sometimes very difficult to find the “core” pieces of information to understand Kubernetes, especially when seeing how dense the information is on kubernetes.io’s concepts pages and documentation…

A fictional dialog. The Uninformed: You must use Docker, I know we are only a team of 5, but everyone else is using it! Developer: But we are building a simple service, which will bring us excellent value, we need to ship now. The Uninformed: Sorry, we build everything using…