Background I have been working on Kubernetes for a long time now. It all started back in December 2017 when I was asked to deploy and test one of the services on Kubernetes. It was tough! Not because Kubernetes is tough but because I was a noob just out of college…

I am the guy who is supposed to help services running on data center to move to kubernetes. With a small team it is often difficult to migrate a critical service. However, along with challenges it brought learning. With no connection to load testing I was asked to help the…

There are literally hundreds of blog post out there which talk about creating small size docker images. And yes, there are many blogs as well as excellent documentation around best practices of creating a docker image. This blog post is a summary of the most important yet the most basic…

It doesn’t need an Introduction One of the challenges working with K8s is pre-deployment validation of your descriptor YAMLs. A slight misalignment of the — env values and the server returns an ugly error which makes you wonder if your life is worth living. It is more annoying when you see this error while deploying…

Saving money — Overview The software industry or in fact any industry is governed by only one rule: profit. To make a business profitable you can do two things: Make more money by selling more Spend Less on every sell While the first gives you growth, the second gives you margin. How and why Kubernetes There are hundreds…

This is the first of the series of stories I would be writing describing the technical challenges and experience during migration of a system from on-prem data centre to cloud. But first, let us talk about me(the narcissist). I began my career some 19 months back in a startup which…

Prerequisite Read this blog if you want to know technicalities of a cstor volume. If you want to try out snapshot and clones along with the blog then follow installation setups and provision cstor volume. Also checkout video demo of snapshot, link at the bottom. The Key Terms: Jargons Refer to the blog link in…

Release in which feature is supported: 0.8 The jiva volume controller and replicas are always created in the pvc namespace, however in case of cstor all the artifacts are createdby default in the openebs namespace. Some devops admins want to establish strict network policies and pod security policies so that…

Release where feature is introduced: 0.8 OpenEBS is known for resiliency and availability. Whereas, openebs enables availability using replication of volumes there are certain limits to this strategy. …