Tag: Kubernetes Management

A Complete Traffic Flow Guide to Using Kong Gateway in Kubernetes

Introduction

In today’s cloud-native ecosystem, managing API traffic efficiently is crucial for application performance and security. As organizations migrate to microservices architectures on Kubernetes, the need for a robust API Gateway becomes paramount. Enter Kong Gateway — a powerful solution that acts as the intelligent traffic director for your Kubernetes cluster.

Having worked with multiple API gateway solutions in production environments, I’ve found Kong Gateway to be exceptionally well-suited for Kubernetes deployments. In this comprehensive guide, I’ll walk you through how Kong Gateway orchestrates traffic flow within a Kubernetes cluster, using a real-world Grafana deployment as our example. Continue reading “A Complete Traffic Flow Guide to Using Kong Gateway in Kubernetes”

Building a High-Availability Ingress Solution with Envoy Proxy on Kubernetes

Moving from External Load Balancer to Cloud-Native Architecture

The Challenge

In on-premise Kubernetes deployments, achieving high availability for ingress traffic often relies on external load balancers running on dedicated VMs. While functional, this approach creates single points of failure, adds operational complexity, and wastes valuable infrastructure resources.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through migrating from an external Envoy load balancer to a fully integrated, Kubernetes-native solution using DaemonSet deployments, Keepalived for VIP management, and host networking for optimal performance. Continue reading “Building a High-Availability Ingress Solution with Envoy Proxy on Kubernetes”

Mastering Kubernetes: 5 Essential Tools for Seamless Management

Discussed here are the top 5 Kubernetes management tools that help DevOps teams manage and deploy Kubernetes with ease. Let’s take a look!

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for scheduling and automating the deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications. Also known as “k8s” or “kube” — this container orchestration platform enables cost-effective cloud-native development. Along with all the advantages that come up with deploying Kubernetes, there are many management and monitoring challenges too. Engineering teams can be seen exploring ways to navigate through these complicated and often overwhelming Kubernetes management challenges to get the most out of their investments. 

Kubernetes management involves all operations that deal with complete controlling and tracking of cluster metrics. Such tasks comprise the initiation, controlling, scaling and deletion of pods & containers, their configuration and the evaluation of cluster metrics. K8s management is not only concerned with performance-measured workloads. It also comprises maintenance of the supportive framework which covers the areas such as networking, storage and security. However, managing a Kubernetes cluster is rather complex because of the multi-layered architecture of Kubernetes and the dynamic nature of Kubernetes environments. 

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On-Premise Setup of Kubernetes Cluster using KubeSpray (Offline Mode) – PART 1

Today, most organizations are moving to Managed Services like EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services), and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services), for easier handling of the Kubernetes Cluster. With Managed Kubernetes we do not have to take care of our Master Nodes, cloud providers will be responsible for all Master Nodes and Worker Nodes, freeing up our time. We just need to deploy our Microservices over the Worker nodes. You can pay extra to achieve an uptime of 99.95%. Node repair ensures that a cluster remains healthy and reduces the chances of possible downtime. This is good in many cases but it makes it an expensive ordeal as AKS costs $0.10 per cluster per hour. You have to install upgrades for the VPC CNI yourself and also, install Calico CNI. There is no IDE extension for developing EKS code. it also creates a dependency on the particular Cloud Provider.

To skip the dependency on any Cloud Provider we have to create a Vanilla Kubernetes Cluster. This means we have to take care of all the components – all the Master and Worker Nodes of the Cluster by ourselves.

Here we got a scenario in which one of our client’s requirements was to set up a Kubernetes cluster over On-premises Servers, under the condition of no Internet connectivity. So I choose to perform the setup of the Kubernetes Cluster via Kubespray.

Why Kubespray?

Kubespray is a composition of Ansible playbooks, inventory,
provisioning tools, and domain knowledge for generic
OS/Kubernetes clusters configuration management tasks.
Kubespray provides a highly available cluster, composable
(choice of the network plugin for instance), supports most popular Linux distributions, and continuous integration tests.

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Manage Your Kubernetes Cluster (& much more) with BuildPiper!

With BuildPiper, Managing Kubernetes is no longer a pain now! Here’s how BuildPiper enables simple & hassle-free cluster management, Microservices management, product releases, and much more. Take a look now!

Kubernetes is not a buzzword anymore. In fact, it has become one of those tech wonders that has been making all the technologists around the world super excited!

While Kubernetes is creating great excitement across the technology community, the bigger question is how can businesses and their great products derive value by adopting it!

Why is Managed Kubernetes in demand these days?

The underlying crucial components of a Kubernetes cluster setup and implementation are the management of clusters, nodes, and pods. Intuitive and seamless management of these components plays a significant role in simplifying the overall development and deployment process for a digital product.

Only simplifying the development task isn’t enough, there arises a need for an automated system to deploy, scale, monitor, and securely manage these containerized applications. And managing all this is not a cakewalk! Here’s how the Kubernetes cluster setup step by step can be made easy.

If how to setup kubernetes cluster has become a bottleneck and hinders hassle-free and fast delivery of your software product, then Managed Kubernetes is the ideal solution.

With simplified and flexible ‘Managed Kubernetes’, businesses can easily handle, scale, and deploy the Kubernetes cluster to scale their products, while doing away with the pain of handling the Kubernetes cluster set-up and operation of Kubernetes.

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