Kubernetes

Container orchestration, scheduling and service discovery.

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01Kubernetes essentialsPods, deployments, services, ingress and operators: the building blocks of the most common container platform and how a request reaches a pod.Advanced Distributed Systems · 13 min read

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Agrarian-Scale Kubernetes (3 parts) at New York TimesA real-world engineering write-up from New York Times on microservices and Orchestration.New York Times
From bare-metal to Kubernetes at BetabrandHow migrating Betabrand's bare-metal infrastructure to a Kubernetes cluster hosted on Google Container Engine solved many engineering issues—from hardware failures, to lack of scalability of our production services, complex configuration management and highly heterogeneous development-staging-production…Betabrand
Hardening Kubernetes Infrastructure with Cilium at PalantirA real-world engineering write-up from Palantir on distributed Security.Palantir
High Availability with Distributed DB on Kubernetes at AirbnbTraditionally, organizations have deployed databases on costly, high-end standalone servers using sharding for scaling as a strategy. As data demands grew, the limitations of this strategy became increasingly evident with increasingly longer and more complex maintenance projects.Airbnb
Improve Zipkin Traces using Kubernetes Pod Metadata at SoundCloudWe revisited our distributed tracing setup and incorporated Kubernetes pod metadata into it, significantly enhancing our engineers’ ability to troubleshoot problems that cut across microservices.SoundCloud
Kubernetes at QuoraContainerization is an exciting area of work at Quora that we hope will enable multiple engineering teams to move more quickly toward Quora’s mission. After having first experimented with using Kubernetes over a year ago, it has since become a key technology for us in automating the management of...Quora
Operate Kubernetes Reliably at StripeWe recently built a distributed cron job scheduling system on top of Kubernetes, an exciting new platform for container orchestration. Kubernetes is very popular right now and makes a lot of exciting promises: one of the most exciting is that engineers don’t need to know or care what machines their applications run on.Stripe

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Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg (paper)The internal cluster manager that inspired Kubernetes.Google