Journey of an IT Architect

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    Etcd – the key-value store for Kubernetes

    Etcd in Kubernetes In Kubernetes architecture, etcd is the data store. It stores the desired state of Kubernetes object. API server is the only client…

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    Hosting database on Kubernetes

    Background “We want to host Postgres database on Kubernetes. Can you help us?”. The client appears assertive and reluctant to resort to managed services. So…

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    FSx ONTAP – Enterprise storage on AWS

    Even though object storage has gained a lot of popularity, file storage is still prevalent. AWS has Elastic File System but the performance is insufficient…

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    Knative Eventing Introduction

    In the previous post, I mentioned that Knative Serving and Knative Eventing should be seen as two different projects. The former is supposed to be…

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    Knative Serving Introduction

    Background As per IBM‘s definition, Knative enables serverless workloads to run on Kubernetes clusters, and makes building and orchestrating containers with Kubernetes faster and easier.…

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    Kubernetes Operator

    Kubernetes has a number of tools to automate the deployment of a single workload. In previous posts, we had covered Helm and Kustomize. What are…

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