Indexed job is a new feature in Kubernetes that allows to easily parallelize batch workloads. They work by assigning each Pod in the Job a unique index, which can be used to divide the overall task into smaller, parallel subtasks. Indexed jobs are useful for workloads that can be easily…

Celery is a highly scalable and fault-tolerant task queue that distributes tasks to worker nodes via a message broker. Tasks are defined in Python and added to the queue using the Celery API. Workers then pick up tasks and execute them in the background, with results stored in a backend…

In one of my previous posts I have covered on Ingress controller setup. In this article, we will take a look at cert-manager to issue TLS certificates automatically using Let’s Encrypt and store them as kubernetes secrets , also the configuration of Ingress controller. Step-1 : Install Minikube and have…

Kong supports Hybrid deployments with separation of Control Plane(CP) and Data Plane(DP) . Control Plane is responsible for all administrative tasks and configuration management. Data plane serves the traffic for the proxy and used by API consumers. DP nodes communicates with CP nodes and gets the latest configuration. …

In one of my previous articles I have covered the setup of Nginx Ingress controller in Kubernetes .In this article we will have a look at how we can configure Kong Ingress Controller as API gateway to back end service on Minikube. Step-1: Install Minikube with MetalLB .Please refer to…

What is Kustomize? Kustomize will provide a template-free way to customize application manifests leaving the original YAML file intact and untouched. Kustomize can be used as a standalone binary or with kubectl. Starting Kubernetes 1.14 it’s built into kubectl. In this tutorial, let’s see how we can use kustomize Install- Kustomize-Standalone binary …

In this tutorial, we will see how we can use pack and build packs to convert code into runnable images which are OCI compliant. We will run a basic Hello Whale application using spring boot. Step-1: Using Spring Initializer Generate the base code and add the dependencies like Thymeleaf and…

TPU — Tensor Processing Unit is an ASIC AI accelerator used for machine learning tasks specifically developed using Tensorflow. Edge TPU is designed and released in early 2019 and used in ML Inference acceleration use cases at the Edge. One such Edge TPU device is Coral USB Accelerator. We can…

In the previous post, I have provided a basic introduction of Cron Job within Kubernetes. In this post, we will see bit advanced features of CronJob in Kubernetes and we will start with Parallelism. Parallelism — For a job to run on multiple pods in parallel, we need to set…