Install WordPress on EKS – AWS Kubernetes Service
Install WordPress on EKS Are you looking to install WordPress on EKS ? Lot of our clients are migrating their sites off from dedicated/VPC/shared hosting services to Cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP). There are a lot of advantages of moving your site to the cloud-like you can obtain free SSL certificates from Amazon Certificate Manager […]
Ingress configuration for supporting multiple ACM issued certificates in Amazon EKS – Part 2
In Part 1, we covered the ingress resource configuration for hosting multiple sites on a single Amazon EKS cluster. In this blog, we will extend that discussion to support Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) issued certificates for those domains. This will ensure that all sites can be accessed over ‘https’. We will also look into a […]
Ingress resource for hosting multiple sites on single Amazon EKS cluster – Part 1
We recently helped a client migrate ten of his wordpress sites from shared hosting to Ingress Amazon EKS cluster. One of the requirement was to setup a single EKS cluster with one database for all sites. During migration, we hit a couple of issues around Ingress resources and configuring it to use SSL certificates from […]
Logging with Kubernetes
Introduction In previous blogs, we have explored the creating Kubernetes cluster, deploying an application with Kubernetes cluster and monitoring Kubernetes cluster. This blog gives the overview about the logging with Kubernetes. The logging methods used with Kubernetes. Logging Kubernetes Cluster Application and system level logs are useful to understand the problem with the system. It […]
Monitoring with Kubernetes
Introduction: In previous blogs, we have explored the Azure Container Service and Kubernetes. In this blog, we will explore the monitoring with Kubernetes. Prerequisite: Running Kubernetes Cluster Kubectl utility For reliable applications, it is required to have in place monitoring of the Kubernetes Cluster. It helps to determine availability, scalability, and reliability of the […]
Deploying Application on Azure Kubernetes Service
Launching the simple application with Azure Kubernetes Service In previous few blogs, we have explained about the Kubernetes and container orchestration. Microsoft Azure provides the hosted Kubernetes service. To create the basic Kubernetes Cluster on Azure please visit our previous blog. In this blog, I will launch a simple application on Azure Container Service. Pre-requisite […]
Installing Kubernetes cluster on AWS using KOPS
This blog will show you how to install a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using KOPS. Requirements You must have kubectl , kops and aws-cli installed on your system. For AWS operations, we will be using AWS CLI for our usage but same can be done using AWS GUI. You should have an IAM user created and configured […]
How Kubernetes establishes communication between Pods
Kubernetes provides a feature called service discovery. It gives containers their own IP addresses and a single DNS name and can load-balance across them. Services are responsible for communication between pods. You can see in architecture where serviceIP is actually a key component for the service discovery. It consists of DNS mapping with Pod IP(iptables). […]
Understanding the Lifecycle of a Kuberenetes Pod
What is a Pod? A pod is the deployment unit for the Kubernetes. It is also having the life cycle just like the process in Linux. Pods are mortal, i.e. they can die and be reborn. Each pod consists of a unique Id (UID) which is different for each of them. A Pod consists of […]
Container Orchestration Platforms to Know
Container As a Service (CaaS) is growing very rapidly. Enterprises are adopting the containers and orchestration for managing containerized applications at scale. In the previous blog we also discussed the tools for the container security. Orchestration Platforms: Kubernetes [Open Source]: Kubernetes is the CNCF (Cloud Computing Native Foundation ) hosted project. It is used for automated […]
