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Use WeaveWorks Flagger and the concept of canary releases to rollout new versions of your services to production with confidence. You can even get notifications via Microsoft Teams and monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana.
When it comes to horizontal autoscaling in Kubernetes, do yourself a favor and use KEDA!
See how you can scale your Kubernetes deployments based on custom metrics and Prometheus. Article #2 in the series about horizontal scaling in Kubernetes.
Horizontal Scaling in Kubernetes is one of the fundamental things you should do, when running applications in production. Learn about the basics in this series of articles about the scaling options in Kubernetes!
Add the Kubernetes Reboot Daemon to your cluster to keep your worker nodes up to date and use Azure Logic Apps to get notified whenever one of your machines will be rebooted.
Introduction As you all know by now, Kubernetes is a quite popular platform for running cloud-native applications at scale. A common recommendation when doing so, is to ousource as much state as possible, because managing state in Kubernetes is not a trivial task. It can be quite hard, especially when you have a lot of …
Continue reading "Using Rook / Ceph with PVCs on Azure Kubernetes Service"
How to use Open Service Broker for Azure in combination with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Lately, I have been working a lot with Kubernetes as one (of many) solutions to run Docker containers in the cloud. Microsoft therefore offers Azure Container Service (ACS), a service to create and (partly) manage a Kubernetes cluster on Azure. You normally would deploy such a cluster via the Azure Portal or e.g. via the …
Continue reading "Deploy a hybrid Kubernetes Cluster to Azure Container Service"
