Myself and my colleague Reju Pillai did a webinar on Anthos and how it can solve industry challenges in the hybrid and multi cloud area. This webinar was done in close collaboration with Google cloud marketing team. We covered the relevance of Anthos and application modernisation to industries in Retail, Digital Natives, Banking and Manufacturing … Continue reading Industry Insights with Anthos→
Kubernetes is the defacto Container orchestration platform today and GKE is a managed Kubernetes distribution from GCP. In addition to being best-in-class Kubernetes distribution, GKE adds all the goodness of GCP to GKE and is also integrated well with the cloud native ecosystem. GKE has been in general availability for the last 5+ years and … Continue reading GKE Tip series→
Anthos developer sandbox is pretty cool as it allows developers to experience Kubernetes/GKE/Anthos from right inside their favorite IDE. I made the following demo to showcase how you can use Anthos developer sandbox.
I had a recent discussion with my colleagues about Container runtimes supported by Kubernetes, I realized that this topic is pretty complicated with many different technologies and layers of abstractions. As a Kubernetes user, we don’t need to worry about the container runtime used below Kubernetes for most practical purposes but as an engineer, its … Continue reading Kubernetes Container Runtimes→
I recently did a 4 week Kubernetes and GKE learning series in Google cloud. The goal here was to take some of the fundamental Kubernetes and GKE concepts and run them through with specific Qwiklabs to illustrate the concepts. Qwiklabs is a GCP sandbox environment to try out GCP technologies. The nice thing with Qwiklabs … Continue reading Kubernetes and GKE learning series→
I recently delivered a session on “Best practises for using Kubernetes in production” in Technical Agility conference. Considering that it’s COVID time, the conference itself was virtual. The conference was well organised and I enjoyed the Q&A session. Following is an abstract of my topic: Kubernetes has become the de facto Container orchestration platform over … Continue reading Tech Agility conference→
Recently, I did a webinar with Techgig on “Kubernetes design principles, patterns and ecosystem”. In this webinar, I covered the following topics: Key design principles behind Kubernetes Common design patterns with pods Day-2 Kubernetes best practises Kubernetes ecosystem Following link has the recording to the webinar. I have also added a link to the slides … Continue reading Techgig Kubernetes Webinar→
For many folks working with Containers and Kubernetes, the journey begins with trying few sample container applications and then deploying applications into production in a managed kubernetes service like GKE. GKE or any managed kubernetes services provides lot of features and controls and it is upto the user to leverage them the right way. Based … Continue reading Kubernetes and GKE – Day 2 operations→
Recently, we had a customer issue where a production GKE cluster was deleted accidentally which caused some outage till the cluster recovery was completed. Recovering the cluster was not straightforward as the customer did not have any automated backup/restore mechanism and also the presence of stateful workloads complicated this further. I started looking at some … Continue reading Kubernetes DR→
In my last blog, I covered options to access GKE services from external world. In this blog, I will cover service to service communication options within GKE cluster. Specifically, I will cover the following options: Cluster IP Internal load balancer(ILB) Http internal load balancer Istio Traffic director In the end, I will also compare these … Continue reading Service to service communication within GKE cluster→
In this blog, I will talk about different options for getting traffic from external world into GKE cluster. The options described are: Network load balancer(NLB) Http load balancer with ingress Http load balancer with Network endpoint groups(NEG) nginx Ingress controller Istio ingress gateway For each of the above options, I will deploy a simple helloworld … Continue reading Getting traffic into GKE Cluster→
While working on a recent hybrid GCP plus on-premise customer architecture, we had a need to connect GKE cluster running in GCP to a service running in on-premise through a VPN. There were few unique requirements like needing to expose only a small IP range to the on-premise and having full control over the IP … Continue reading GKE with VPN – Networking options→
Anthos is a hybrid/multi-cloud platform from GCP. Anthos allows customers to build their application once and run in GCP or in any other private or public cloud. Anthos unifies the control, management and data plane when running a container based application across on-premise and multiple clouds. Anthos was launched in last year’s NEXT18 conference and … Continue reading Migrate for Anthos→
This blog is last in the series on VPC native GKE clusters. In this blog, I will cover Network endpoint groups(NEG) and Container native load balancing. For the first part on GKE ip addressing, please refer here and the second part on VPC native clusters, please refer here. Container load balancing and Network endpoint groups(NEG) … Continue reading VPC native GKE clusters – Container native LB→
This blog is second in the series on VPC native GKE clusters. In this blog, I will cover overview of IP aliasing, IP alias creation options and creating VPC native clusters using alias IPs. For the first blog on GKE ip addressing, please refer here. OverviewIP aliases allows a single VM to have multiple internal … Continue reading VPC native GKE clusters – IP aliasing→
This blog was written by me after a long gap of close to 7 months. Many reasons including busy work schedule, some health issues in the middle and a little bit of laziness contributed to this. I hope to be a more active blogger going forward. In this blog series, I will cover the following … Continue reading VPC native GKE clusters – IP address management→
This blog is more of a quick reference notes rather than a real blog. I shared this with few Google internal folks and since they found it useful, I thought I will share these notes in the blog as well. Please note that the Data engineer exam format changed a little from March 29, 2019. … Continue reading My Data engineer certification notes→
I did the following presentation “Devops with Kubernetes” in Kubernetes Sri Lanka inaugural meetup earlier this week. Kubernetes is one of the most popular open source projects in the IT industry currently. Kubernetes abstractions, design patterns, integrations and extensions make it very elegant for Devops. The slides delve little deep on these topics. How Kubernetes … Continue reading Devops with Kubernetes→
I presented this webinar “Top 3 reasons why you should run your enterprise workloads on GKE” at NEXT100 CIO forum earlier this week. Businesses are increasingly moving to Containers and Kubernetes to simplify and speed up their application development and deployment. The slides and demo covers the top reasons why Google Kubernetes engine(GKE) is one of … Continue reading NEXT 100 Webinar – Top 3 reasons why you should run your enterprise workloads on GKE→
This week, I did a presentation in Container Conference, Bangalore. The conference was well conducted and it was attended by 400+ quality attendees. I enjoyed some of the sessions and also had fun talking to attendees. The topic I presented was “Deep dive into Kubernetes Networking”. Other than covering Kubernetes networking basics, I also touched … Continue reading Container Conference Presentation→
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