The Headlines
Editor’s picks of the highlights from the past week.
How I passed the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Exam
Nilesh Jayanandana, Platformer
As many of you may have heard, (If you haven’t heard just google the question is CKA hard?) CKA is a tough exam. Mainly because it focuses on your ability to perform on a practical level rather than just asking a bunch of MCQ questions that would test your knowledge. Check out these tips and tricks for getting prepared and during the time of the exam.
Kubernetes Helm features I would wish to know from day one
Jakub Stransky, CEAi
Kubernetes Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes deployments. It is one of the possible tools for deployment management on Kubernetes platform. When combining different tools, following Helm advanced features greatly simplifies and provides some structure to the resulting Helm template. Check out this list for some of the most useful features.
Custom User Authentication in Istio
Omar Al-Hayderi, PlanGrid
PlanGrid is using Istio to get more observability and control of requests within their service-oriented architecture. Istio can be used “à la carte” and they started with routing all requests to PlanGrid services through a single Istio ingress Gateway. Check out this article to learn more about how PlanGrid is using Istio in production.
Webinars
Upcoming webinars on cloud native technologies.
To Russia With Love – Kubernetes in Exotic Locations
Michael Wojcikiewicz, CloudOps
February 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
The Technical
Tutorials, tools, and more that take you on a deep dive into the code.
Server Name Indication (SNI) and Ingress TLS in Kubernetes with Ambassador
Daniel Bryant, Datawire.io
Keeping Secrets in an ASP.NET Kubernetes Application
Jeffrey Rennie, Google
Securing Kubernetes Clusters with Istio and Auth0
Rinor Maloku, Auth0
Can Kubernetes Keep a Secret? It All Depends What Tool You’re Using
Omer Levi Hevroni, Soluto
PHP on Kubernetes: application logging via unix pipe
Marco Pracucci, Voxnest
Using Alterant to add Istio to your Kubernetes cluster
Khas Sajadi, Cloud 66
Poseidon-Firmament Scheduler – Flow Network Graph Based Scheduler
Deepak Vij & Shivram Shrivastava, Huawei
A Kubernetes Developer Workflow for MacOS
Megan O’Keefe, Google Cloud
Ambassador: Building a Control Plane for an Envoy-Powered API Gateway on Kubernetes
Daniel Bryant, Datawire.io
Hands on Knative — Part 1
Mete Atamel, Google
The Editorial
Articles, announcements, and more that give you a high-level overview of challenges and features.
Docker and Kubernetes in high security environments
Christian Abdelmassih, Swedish Police Authority
Understanding Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaling
Ajay Tripathy, kubecost
Bose and Kubernetes
Jake Edge, LWN.net
Feedback and Control – an Essential GitOps Component
Anita Buehrle, Weaveworks
Welcoming Heptio Open Source Projects to VMware
Ross Kukulinski, VMware
O’Reilly Publishes “The State of Microservices Maturity” Report
Reda Hmeid, InfoQ
12 ways to get smarter about Kubernetes
Kevin Casey, The Enterprisers Project
How Uber Monitors 4,000 Microservices
Julie Dam, CNCF
Kubernetes Failure Stories, with Henning Jacobs
Craig Box & Adam Glick, Google
Kubernetes at Earnest
Harsha Yalamanchili, Earnest
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