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Platform Engineering on Kubernetes – Architecture and Tooling

As the world moves to a self-servicing platform infrastructure, especially in cloud-native environments, Kubernetes plays a crucial role in building flexible, resilient, and scalable infrastructure.

In this blog, we will take our conversation forward on how Kubernetes ecosystem is helping engineering teams build these cloud-native platforms. We will specifically talk about some of the architecture-related questions that are crucial to answer to build a resilient self-service platform on Kubernetes.

How to Use Kubernetes for Machine Learning and Data Science Workload

This piece will go into Kubernetes’s strengths and how they can be applied to data science and machine learning projects. We will discuss its fundamental principles and building blocks to help you successfully install and manage machine learning workloads on Kubernetes. More over, this article will give essential insights and practical direction on making the most of this powerful platform, whether you’re just starting with Kubernetes or trying to enhance your machine learning and data science operations.

Kubernetes in Production: Tips and Tricks for Managing High Traffic Loads

Kubernetes in Production Tips and Tricks for Managing High Traffic Loads

In today’s digital world, websites and applications are expected to handle a high traffic volume, especially during peak hours or promotional campaigns. When server resources become overwhelmed, it can lead to slower response times, decreased performance, and even complete service disruptions.

How To Run Applications on Top Of Kubernetes

How To Run Applications on Top Of Kubernetes Taikun.

In our series on Kubernetes so far, we have covered an entire gamut of topics. We started with a comprehensive guide to help you get started on Kubernetes. From there, we got into the details of Kubernetes architecture and why Kubernetes remains a pivotal tool in any cloud infrastructure setup. We also covered other concepts in Kubernetes that are useful to know, namely, namespaces, workloads, and deployment. We also discussed a popular Kubernetes command, kubectl, in detail. We also covered how Kubernetes differs from another popular container orchestration tool, Docker Swarm. In this blog, we will consolidate all our learnings and discuss how to run applications on Kubernetes.

Although we covered this topic in bits, we feel this topic deserves a blog of its own.

Kubernetes Deployment: How to Run a Containerized Workload on a Cluster

In this blog, we will discuss Kubernetes deployments in detail. We will cover everything you need to know to run a containerized workload on a cluster. The smallest unit of a Kubernetes deployment is a pod. A pod is a collection of one or more containers. So the smallest deployment in Kubernetes would be a single pod with one container in it. As you would know that Kubernetes is a declarative system where you describe the system you want and let Kubernetes take action to create the desired system. 

Kubernetes Namespaces

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In the last few blogs we covered have covered Kubernetes in great detail. We started with an overview of Kubernetes and why it is one of the most important technologies in cloud computing today. We also spoke about what Kubernetes architecture looks like and how you can use Kubernetes using a simple kubectl tool. In this blog, we will cover everything you need to know about Kubernetes Namespaces. 

Managing Kubernetes With Kubectl

Managing Kubernetes With Kubectl - Taikun

One of the recommended command-line methods to manage your Kubernetes setup is to use kubectl. With the kubectl command, you can interact with Kubernetes API servers to manage workloads in the Kubernetes infrastructure. In this blog, we will cover all aspects of the kubectl command that you would need to get started on managing Kubernetes with it. If you wish to get an overview of Kubernetes, you can read our series of blogs on it starting here.Let’s start with understanding what kubectl is and how it works with Kubernetes. 

Kubernetes Workloads – Everything You Need to Get Started

Kubernetes Workloads – Everything You Need to Get Started - Taikun

In the last few blogs, we discussed how Kubernetes has become a gamechanger in the adoption of cloud computing and how you can get up to speed with it. We also discussed how Kubernetes differs from other orchestration tools like Docker Swarm and how you can make the right choice for your use case.

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