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In previous parts of this series, we walked you through StorageClass as one of the Kubernetes objects for data persistence. Let’s now look at another persistent data object referred to as a StatefulSet. We’ll cover the topics below and some hands-on practice to show you the functionalities of this object.

The previous installment in this series outlined two volume provisioning methods, static and dynamic. The exercise on creating a PersistentVolume was based on static volume provisioning, while this segment will focus on the dynamic method using StorageClass. You’ll learn how to make a volume request of any size, without worrying about whether or not it’s available in the storage pool.

In this post, we’ll look at how we implemented a Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting stack (MLA)  for a highly distributed platform, in a scalable and efficient manner.

Previously in this series, we looked at volumes and volumeMounts in Kubernetes. Now we’ll take a step further and introduce two other Kubernetes objects related to data persistence and preservation, namely  PersistentVolumes (PVs) and PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs).

There are so many environments that operational tasks and applications have to be managed in today, it can be a real challenge. Implementing cloud native Operators are a great way to improve efficiencies by providing the tools to automate these processes. In this blog post, you’ll learn more about what Kubernetes Operators are and the benefits of adding them.

In the last part of this series, you learnt about ReplicaSet and its functionalities to make the management of Kubernetes applications easier. We will take a step further in this part by introducing you to Kubernetes Deployment.

In this part of our series, we are focusing on Kubernetes ReplicaSets. Just like the previous parts, there will be hand-on practice to allow you to get acquainted with the features and functionalities of ReplicaSets which include using ReplicaSet to scale applications up or down.

Although Kubernetes is a very complex system, installing it doesn’t have to be hard if you use existing tooling. In this blog post, you’ll get some insights on the learnings we made while creating KubeOne, a Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management tool.

In this part, we will look at ConfigMaps which is a similar Kubernetes object but differs in use case to Kubernetes Secret. After digging into theory, we will follow up with hands-on practice to test the use case and functionalities of a ConfigMap in Kubernetes.

Deployments of Kubernetes in production are notoriously massive in scope, running thousands and even tens of thousands of containers. In this blog post, we show you how Kubernetes metrics help you keep track of your containers.

Kubernetes has an integrated pattern for decoupling configuration from application or container to make it portable and make its management flexible. This inbuilt pattern allows application externalisation, as well as giving the application components autonomy from the container image.

In October 2020, the Kubernetes Dashboard officially turned five. As main project maintainers, we barely could believe that so much time has passed since our very first commit to the project.