You’ve most likely stumbled on Kubernetes
Β labels while writing deployment manifests. What are they for and how to use them? As always we’ll see a practical demo to answer these questions. Keep reading to find out more.
Kubernetes Labels Demo

You’ve most likely stumbled on Kubernetes
Β labels while writing deployment manifests. What are they for and how to use them? As always we’ll see a practical demo to answer these questions. Keep reading to find out more.
You have probably heard of Kubernetes
namespaces. But what are they for? What purpose do they serve? How to use them correctly? Keep reading to find out.
Kubernetes ConfigMaps
provide Kubernetes Pods with configuration information. How to create and use ConfigMaps
? What are Kubernetes ConfigMaps
concepts? Keep reading to find out.
What areKubernetes volumes, their types and concepts behind them? We’ll cover all of that below. In addition, we’ll see practical demo of using Kubernetes volumes.
Kubernetes
services expose apps running as a set of Kubernetes
pods using a single DNS name. In addition, Kubernetes
services provide load balancing between the pods. Of course, I’ll demo how to manage services using kubectl
.Keep reading to find out more.
Kubernetes deployments allow to define and enforce desired state of applications running in Kubernetes. Kubernetes deployments achieve that using ReplicaSets. ReplicaSet guarantees running the desired number of Kubernetes pods. Below, we’ll explore deployments and ReplicaSets concepts. In addition, I’ll demo how to manage them using kubectl
. Keep reading to find out more.
Kubernetes pods are the smallest units of execution in Kubernetes. We’ll explore concepts behind Kubernetes pods and how to manage them using kubectl
. Keep reading to find out more.
So you pulled the official Prometheus docker image and added Prometheus to your monitoring stack. Next, you tried to add a health check forPrometheus and got stuck? Keep reading to find out how to do it π
Several years ago I discovered how useful Docker might be for CI/CD using Jenkins. Now, time arrived to share that with you. You may say that it’s old news because there are a lot of new tools and technologies enabling CI/CD other than Jenkins. Nevertheless, many companies still do CI/CD using Jenkins. Additionally, they might use Docker for packaging the applications. Do their Jenkins instances run in Docker as well? Preferably, they do. If you feel it’s too much, don’t worry π I’ll showcase CI/CD of web app using Docker and Jenkins. Keep reading to find out more details π
While HaProxy has many uses, I’ll show how HaProxy can act as HTTP proxy. Why might you need it? For example, in order to forward HTTP traffic between 2 unreachable networks. As always, Docker will help us to raise a fully functional demo. Keep reading to find out how π