This is part 4 in a series of posts related to Kubernetes. Pervious posts were about kubelet, Kubernetes API, etcd, and kubectl, and kube-scheduler. This time we will explore kube-controller-manager and its role in managing replication of pods (a.k.a. scaling).

In 2018 I gave my first conference presentation. It was quite the journey from being at NDC Minnesota in May — swearing I didn’t have the guts to be a speaker — to presenting at the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) in July to a room of 120+ people.

This is part 3 in a series of posts related to Kubernetes. Pervious posts were about kubelet and Kubernetes API, etcd, and kubectl. Like those posts, this one was is inspired by another 2015 post by Kamal Marhubi and is intended to update and expand on the topics with my own thoughts and learnings. Our focus will be exploring kube-scheduler.

This is part 2 in a series of posts related to Kubernetes. Part 1 was about the kubelet. Like part 1, this post is inspired by another 2015 post by Kamal Marhubi and is intended to update and expand on the topics with my own thoughts and learnings. We will explore kube-apiserver, its relationship to etcd, and get a taste of why kubectl is so nice.

The allure of nice syntax highlighting without leaving Markdown was one of the things that drew me to Hugo. In practice, I have found there are a number of challenges in implementation to get it to work as I expect. I was also reminded why I prefer not to spend my time fighting with CSS. ;)