Are your Kubernetes applications inexplicably slowing down, even when your nodes seem to have plenty of CPU to spare? You might be experiencing CPU throttling. I recently watched an excellent CNCF video by Dave Chiluk, an engineer at Indeed. I encourage you to watch the whole video. There is also a related blog article from […]
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Managing secrets is critical for running secure and professional Kubernetes clusters. Sensitive data like API keys, database passwords, and TLS certificates need to be handled with care. While Kubernetes offers its own Secret object, it is often better to delegate the actual storage and management of secrets to external, specialized systems like AWS Secrets Manager,
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Having introduced the Gateway API in part one of this series, we will now explore some Gateway API types and field specifications, and how they all fit together. Installing the Gateway API Addon You might be wondering, “Why don’t I see Gateway API resources on my Kubernetes cluster?” or “Which Kubernetes cluster version includes the
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This is the first article of a series about the Kubernetes Gateway API. In case you missed it, Gateway API has reached v1.0 GA Release in October of 2023, while around the same time, the well-established Ingress API Object was frozen. We can infer from this that Gateway API is officially replacing Ingress. But don’t
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You may have heard of StatefulSets in Kubernetes. But if you’ve never had the chance to work with them, it might be hard to understand what purpose they serve. In this article we will review when to use StatefulSets and provide a quick walkthrough of how to create one. Why Stateful Sets StatefulSet is the
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