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In addition to routing the incoming requests or exposing service API's through a single endpoint, the ingress gateways does other tasks, such as rate limiting, SSL termination, load balancing, authentication, circuit breaking and more.

You deployed your applications to Kubernetes and now you need a way for your users to access them.

To investigate and debug the containers within a pod you need to remove the pod from the load balancing pool, so none of the traffic gets sent to it.

In this multi-part series of articles I'll try and capture everything I think someone who wants to learn and work with Kubernetes should know about.

In this article, I'll talk a bit about data partitioning.

In this short article I'll talk about two things - the latest tag in Docker and why you should be careful when using it and how you should come up with your own tagging scheme for your Docker images.

I have been using Docker directly or indirectly for years now.

Understanding concepts around Docker images and containers is crucial for anyone starting in cloud-native.

Have you heard of gateways, proxies, load balancer, API gateways?

The rising demand for hard kubernetes multitenancy, either for customers of a SaaS offering or to support disparate internal teams within an organization, coupled with mass adoption of service-meshes (Istio being the more popular of the choices), we are s…

If you ever wanted to quickly evaluate service meshes and even run a couple of performace tests, you might want to look into Meshery.

Learn how circuit breakers protect your services in an Istio service mesh — connection pool settings, outlier detection, and a hands-on demo of tripping the breaker before failures cascade.

This article explains how to build a simple CI using Github Actions.

In the past year, I have done multiple workshops on Kubernetes, Istio and cloud-native development.

Ever wondered how you can build your own system that automatically updates your React app each time you push changes to the repository where your app is hosted?

Istio 1.4.0 was released on November 14th and it came with a lot of new features and enhancements.

The fallacies of distributed computing or distributed system are a collection of eight statements made by L.

The CAP theorem, also named Brewer's theorem after computer scientist Eric Brewer, states that it is impossible for a distributed system to simultaneously provide more than two out of the following three guarantees - consistency, high availability, and pa…

This Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) cheatsheet contains the most common commands you will use when working with Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes resources.

This post and accompanying video guides you through the Minikube installation process.

I like to read and see how people set up their environments and any tools, tips, and tricks they use to be more productive when working with Kuberentes and Istio.

The idea behind sticky sessions is to route the requests for a particular session to the same endpoint that served the first request.

This article explains how you can use Istio in combination with ngrok to debug a service running locally on your machine while the production version of the service is running in the cluster

By default, any service running inside the service mesh is not automatically exposed outside of the cluster which means that we can't get to it from the public Internet.

The idea behind zero downtime release is to release a new version of the service, without affecting any users — i.e., users don't even know when a new version of the service is released.

In addition to more “traditional” traffic routing between different service versions, that can be based on a variety of incoming requests properties, such as portions of the URL, header values, request method, etc., Istio also supports traffic mirroring.

You have finally deployed your app to Kubernetes and you bought a cool domain name — ever wondered how to point your cool domain like www.mydomain.com, but cooler, to an application running inside Kubernetes?