Grafana Alloy is an open source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.

This blog is to share with readers the experiences and experimentation results while deploying an on-premise Kubernetes service project.

Linux and Kubernetes share several foundational concepts due to Kubernetes being designed to run and manage containerized applications, with containers themselves being a Linux feature. However, Kubernetes extends far beyond just wrapping Linux features; it provides orchestration capabilities that are not native to Linux; But still in the heart Kubernetes is a wrapper of Linux features.

Note: This blog post delves into just a fragment of my professional realm, highlighting the dynamics between GitOps and Kubernetes. I frequently observe a neglect of culture and an oversight of potential within this scope. The focus here is on the most minimal aspect possible.

Use Velero and Restic to protect your small clusters

Learn how Kubernetes schedules pods using pod priority, preemption policy, and pod priority classes.

Learn the mechanics behind Kubernetes Pod restart policies: Always, OnFailure, and Never.

TopoLVM is a CSI plugin using LVM for Kubernetes. It can be considered as a specific implementation of local persistent volumes using CSI and LVM.

A zero-config way to access you kubernetes cluster network

"Prodverbs" (or production proverbs) is a cool collection of sayings maintained by Google's SRE team, which all of us who write or maintain distributed systems should understand.

This article is a new run of my previous benchmark (2020, 2019 and 2018), now running Kubernetes 1.26 and Ubuntu 22.04 with CNI version up-to-date in January 2024.

Effortlessly deploy a status page and start monitoring endpoints in minutes

Explore key features and comparisons of top Terraform static code analysis tools to enhance security and compliance in your infrastructure management.

Inkdrop is a CLI tool that creates interactive diagrams to visualize your Terraform. It helps you onboard engineers, generate documentation and understand dependencies faster.