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Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes Applications

Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes Applications

In this blog we will go in detail into the Continuous Delivery pipeline for deploying your applications to Kubernetes.
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Aug 2, 2020
CI for Kubernetes Applications

CI for Kubernetes Applications

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Jul 13, 2020
AWS KMS Use Cases, Features and Alternatives

AWS KMS Use Cases, Features and Alternatives

We’ll take a look at the concept of envelope encryption, as well as the key features of AWS KMS, its use cases, and alternatives.
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Aymen El Amri
Jul 8, 2020
Monitoring Kubernetes tutorial: using Grafana and Prometheus

Monitoring Kubernetes tutorial: using Grafana and Prometheus

This blog post was written as part of a collaboration with MetricFire
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Aymen El Amri
Jul 5, 2020
Open Source Monitoring vs Proprietary Software

Open Source Monitoring vs Proprietary Software

It’s easy to get pulled into paying more and more at a major monitoring company, despite not getting the functionality that you need.
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Aymen El Amri
Jun 28, 2020
How to Build Optimal Docker Images

How to Build Optimal Docker Images

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Jun 21, 2020
Budget Guide to Server Monitoring

Budget Guide to Server Monitoring

Check out our guide on how to keep your monitoring costs down without sacrificing any observability.
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Aymen El Amri
Jun 17, 2020
CI/CD Pipelines for Kubernetes Applications

CI/CD Pipelines for Kubernetes Applications

If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check this guide to CI/CD pipelines.
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Jun 14, 2020
10 Reasons You Should Use MetricFire

10 Reasons You Should Use MetricFire

This blog post was writer as part of a collaboration with MetricFire
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Aymen El Amri
Jun 8, 2020
Cloud monitoring vs. On-premises — Prometheus, and Grafana

Cloud monitoring vs. On-premises — Prometheus, and Grafana

Disclaimer: This blog post was written as part of a collaboration with Metricfire.
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Aymen El Amri
Jun 3, 2020
Getting Started With Grafana

Getting Started With Grafana

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your…
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MetricFire
Apr 14, 2020
First contact with Prometheus Exporters

First contact with Prometheus Exporters

Table of contents
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MetricFire
Apr 12, 2020
Contrasting AWS ECS and Kubernetes

Contrasting AWS ECS and Kubernetes

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Apr 9, 2020
Understanding the Prometheus rate() function

Understanding the Prometheus rate() function

One of the most widely used functions is rate(), however it is also one of the most misunderstood.
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MetricFire
Apr 6, 2020
The Top 5 Monitorama talks of 2019

The Top 5 Monitorama talks of 2019

In October, 2019, one of the Monitorama conferences was held in Baltimore, MD. For those of you who missed the conference, this article…
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MetricFire
Apr 2, 2020
Monitoring Docker Containers with cAdvisor

Monitoring Docker Containers with cAdvisor

Docker is one of the most popular tools for containerization, and several tools have been developed by the open source community to…
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MetricFire
Mar 30, 2020
Kubernetes Networking 101

Kubernetes Networking 101

Introduction
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 25, 2020
Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus

Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus

In this blog post, we are going to look at the Four Golden Signals of building an observable system, and then see how Prometheus can help…
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 23, 2020
Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes

Introduction to Monitoring Kubernetes

The growing adoption of microservices architecture is also driving the adoption of containers to package, distribute and run the…
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 17, 2020
Understanding Docker’s -net=host Option

Understanding Docker’s -net=host Option

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Mar 15, 2020
Understanding Docker Networking — Part II

Understanding Docker Networking — Part II

Docker can be used in various use cases: the standalone mode, using Docker Compose, in a single host, or by deploying containers and…
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 8, 2020
Understanding Docker Networking

Understanding Docker Networking

In this series, we will guide you through the most crucial container networking concepts. To apprehend the different concepts introduced…
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 4, 2020
Develop and Deploy a Python API with Kubernetes and Docker — part II

Develop and Deploy a Python API with Kubernetes and Docker — part II

In part I of this tutorial, we developed a Python API then we used Docker and Docker Compose to containerize the application and create a…
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Aymen El Amri
Mar 1, 2020
Develop and Deploy a Python API with Kubernetes and Docker

Develop and Deploy a Python API with Kubernetes and Docker

Docker is one of the most popular containerization technologies. It is a simple to use, developer-friendly tool, and has advantages over…
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Aymen El Amri
Feb 27, 2020
Managing a Kubernetes Cluster Using Terraform

Managing a Kubernetes Cluster Using Terraform

Kubernetes (K8s) is one of the most popular open-source container orchestration and scheduling tools. Google developed it, but it is not…
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Aymen El Amri
Feb 24, 2020
Prometheus Metrics based autoscaling in Kubernetes

Prometheus Metrics based autoscaling in Kubernetes

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Feb 19, 2020
Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch (Part 2)

Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch (Part 2)

Introduction
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Feb 16, 2020
Getting started with AWS CloudWatch

Getting started with AWS CloudWatch

Out of more than 100 services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides, Amazon CloudWatch was one of the earliest services provided by AWS.
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Aymen El Amri
Feb 11, 2020
Deploying Grafana to Kubernetes

Deploying Grafana to Kubernetes

A tutorial for deploying Grafana to Kubernetes — including screenshots and code snippets.
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Aymen El Amri
Feb 9, 2020
Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch (Part 1)

Kubernetes Logging with Filebeat and Elasticsearch (Part 1)

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Feb 3, 2020
Kubernetes AWS Resource Access

Kubernetes AWS Resource Access

This blog has been written in partnership with MetricFire. If you are planning to run Kubernetes in production you should certainly check…
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Jan 29, 2020
Kubernetes Secrets Management

Kubernetes Secrets Management

Manage application secrets effectively in Kubernetes.
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VAIBHAV THAKUR
Jan 27, 2020
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