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More than one year ago CoreOS introduced AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) support for Kubernetes. This project was born out of Ticketmaster’s tight relationship with CoreOS. It was in an alpha state for a long time, so I waited for some beta/stable release to put my hands on it. The project is donated to Kubernetes SIG-AWS on June 1, 2018, and now there is a lot more activity. A few months ago the first stable version got released. Let’s try the ALB ingress and see how it compares to Nginx ingress or more advanced Contour ingress that I wrote about in some previous posts. HowRead More →

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As developers we work on source code, but production systems don’t run source, they need a runnable thing. Starting many years ago, most enterprises were using Java EE (aka J2EE) and the runnable “thing” we would deploy to production was a “.jar”, “.war”, or “.ear” file. Those files consisted of the compiled Java classes and would run inside of a “container” running on the JVM. As long as your class files were compatible with the JVM and container, the app would just work. That all worked great until people started building non-JVM stuff: Ruby, Python, NodeJS, Go, etc. Now we needed another way to packageRead More →

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It is impractical to predict cache hit-rates, especially in times where usage will likely change dramatically. However, we are increasing cache retention times to ensure that most images that are in the cache stay in the cache. GKE nodes also have their own local disk cache, so when reviewing your usage of DockerHub, you only need to count the number of unique image pulls (of images not in our cache) made from GKE nodes:  For private clusters, consider the total number of such image pulls across your cluster (as all image pulls will be routed via a single NAT gateway).  For public clusters you haveRead More →

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Summary What is a kubectl plugin? How to install plugins with krew? My favorite plugins kubectl whoami kubectl access-matrix kubectl neat kubectl tree kubectl node-shell What is a kubectl plugin? The Kubernetes CLI special interest group added a built-in plugin system to kubectl that allows anyone to add new sub-commands. This does not require editing kubectl’s source code or recompiling it. Any executable file in your PATH that starts with kubectl- can be called with the kubectl command. To try this out, let’s write a very basic plugin called kubectl-hello. Make this script executable and add it to your PATH: That’s it! You can nowRead More →

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Summary Host your own runners Rewrite your Dockerfile to make the most of the docker cache Reuse the docker cache from a former build Re-think how your jobs use the cache Allow a single pipeline per ref and make jobs interruptible Automatically rerun jobs that failed on known issuesRead More →

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When developing a service to deploy on Kubernetes, do you sometimes feel like you’re more focused on your YAML files than on your application? When working with YAML, do you find it hard to detect errors early in the development process? We created Cloud Code to let you spend more time writing code and less time configuring your application, including authoring support features such as inline documentation, completions, and schema validation, a.k.a.  “linting.” Completions provided by Cloud Code for a Kubernetes deployment.yaml file Inline documentation provided by Cloud Code for a Kubernetes deployment.yaml file Schema validation provided by Cloud Code for a Kubernetes deployment.yaml fileRead More →

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As a developer building a new application, you want to focus on writing code, not containerizing it. And if you already use containers, you know that creating a good, secure container image can be complicated and time-consuming. Today we’re launching broad support across Google Cloud for buildpacks—an open-source technology that makes it fast and easy for you to create secure, production-ready container images from source code and without a Dockerfile. At the center of this release are a collection of open-source buildpacks and builders. Based on the CNCF buildpacks v3 specification, these buildpacks produce container images that follow best practices and are suitable for runningRead More →