A DevOps Guide to Kubernetes Storage on AWS

Originally published on Spice Works Kubernetes storage is useful for managing multiple forms of persistent and non-persistent storage in a cluster to cater to both stateful and stateless workloads in a containerized environment. Proper management of Kubernetes storage options allows us to dyna...

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10 Things I wish I’d known before building a Kubernetes CRD controller

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. A. Lincoln Well I didn’t even know there was an axe… K8s resources, in that context, are one heck of a tree to chop. You better come ready to work. I hope that this information will find the a...

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Introduction to AWS Lambda and Serverless

“Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing A recent uninformed discussion on Linkedin ab...

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Achieving Disk Elasticity in Containerized Environments

Originally published at vmblog.com One of the main frustrations with using containers is that the data stored within it is ephemeral, and as a result, you cannot retrieve it at a later time. This presents problems for non-trivial applications (such as databases) when they run on Kubernetes or ...

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