WHEN A SELF-SERVICE PORTAL IS NOT ENOUGH
Photo by Emanuel Ekström on Unsplash temporary namespace manager (tenama) Today’s article is about another service that I was able to develop and open-source during my work as a platform engineer. With the following anecdote, I would also like to lay the foundation for my current “story” of why we developed tenama. What happenend so far In the environment I work in, we build our on-premise Kubernetes clusters very heavily based on open source products.
Read moreRESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN KUBERNETES
Photo by Growtika on Unsplash Foreword In the following chapter we will discuss the topics CPU requests, CPU limits, memory requests and memory limits. We will try to go into details here only so far as to build an understanding of the foundation of Kubernetes Resources Management. For those who are interested in the topic and want to learn more, I recommend the official documentation https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/assign-cpu-resource/. General In general, the 4 values of CPU Requests, CPU Limits, Memory Requests and Memory Limits can be viewed in 2 phases.
Read moreTHE JOURNEY TO A SELF-HEALING PLATFORM
Photo by Austin Kehmeier on Unsplash Hi guys, my first story is about my hobby project “OpenFero”. Open Fero is a little play on words from the Latin “opem fero”, which means “to help” and the term “OpenSource”. Hence the name “openfero”. The scope of OpenFero is a framework for self-healing in a cloud-native environment. Beginning of the journey In my ongoing time as a Kubernetes Platform Engineer, I’ve always wondered, “Isn’t there a solution to take the self-healing principle of Kubernetes further?
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