Kubernetes has become the de facto way to maintain and deploy containers. However, there are still some portions of our application that we manage by hand. The two I have noticed are maintaining DNS records and TLS certificates. Shouldn’t we be able to define our desired DNS and TLS alongside…

How one question stumped me and made me rethink my career — As I thought about the question and prepared my answer, I noticed something about the response I was going to give. If you had asked me this question earlier in my career I would have said something such as testing your code, building applications in a specific architecture, or building…

With 2022 ahead of us I wanted to take a look at the tools I used in the previous year — I would consider these tools critical to my day-to-day development and if I couldn’t use them it would be difficult for me to adjust to a new workflow. So while there may be tools that I use on a day to day (something like slack) I didn’t consider those for…

This article was originally published on the VMBlog here and adapted for Medium. When you think of Kubernetes you think of containers. When you think of containers you think Docker. So it was a big surprise when, in December 2020, the Kubernetes maintainers announced that it would be deprecating Docker…

The Certified Kubernetes Administer (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exams may look daunting and intimidating. This is certainly what I thought and felt when I had scheduled my CKA and CKAD earlier this year. …

This article was originally published on the Vultr Blog here and adapted for Medium. Kubernetes has become the mainstream open-source orchestration tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Originally designed by teams at Google and released in 2014, Kubernetes is now officially maintained by the Cloud Native…

While a cup of coffee may seem like its two parts of hot water and coffee grinds there is much more to it. The same can be said for a well designed API. A good API does more then just taking input and returning output. …

What is the GVR in Kubernetes? It stands for Group Version Resource and this is what drives the Kubernetes API Server structure. We will cover exactly what the terminology means for Groups, Versions, Resources (and Kinds) and how they fit into the Kubernetes API. Kind Kinds in Kubernetes relate to the…

This guide is meant to help you configure a private container registry running on your Kubernetes cluster that is backed by an S3 backend. What you will need: Basic working knowledge of Kubernetes A running Kubernetes cluster: We will using Kubernetes resources such as Load Balancers that require cloud provider…