by Kammerdiener | Oct 17, 2023 | Blog, Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a fantastic product that I always enjoy, but there are some moments where it is either overkill or just not helpful to systems. For the sake of this discussion Kubernetes, Fargate, Cloud Run, and Fly.io are all being dumped into the same category. This...
by Kammerdiener | Sep 26, 2023 | Blog, Kubernetes
So this might be a slightly more controversial post, but I really enjoy leveraging spot instances with EKS and GKE to help reduce costs and to help just keep things a little tidier. Plus to me there is some built-in chaos testing when doing this. Cost Ultimately it...
by Kammerdiener | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Kubernetes, Product Review
I have always been someone who uses NGINX whenever I am setting up a Kubernetes cluster. It has always just been the quick and easy standup an NGINX ingress so I can start routing traffic. However, I recently had the chance to work with HAProxy as an ingress as we...
by Kammerdiener | Aug 3, 2023 | Blog, Kubernetes
So some background of GitOps. This is essentially the idea around leveraging a Git repo to manage your cluster state rather than directly applying or using something like Terraform to set it. Disaster Recovery The first and biggest reason for me is leveraging it for...
by Kammerdiener | Jul 25, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
So many clients of mine tend to start with Kubernetes (K8s) whether it be in AWS, GCP, or some hand-baked thing on EC2s. Overall most startups don’t need a full-blown K8s solution. There is rarely a need to be multi-cloud and generally, it is something that just...
