My First Grafana Cloud

In this post I will show you how to quickly get up and running with Grafana Cloud Monitoring your Kubernetes Cluster and Demo app. This post is building off a previous post where we deployed a demo web store app on Kubernetes running on your laptop. While you can use Continue reading My First Grafana Cloud

My First Grafana Asserts

So now you have Grafana Cloud setup and you want to try Asserts? Well you have come to the right place. In this post I will show you how to enable and configure asserts. Then we will run a command inside a container to simulate an out of memory killer Continue reading My First Grafana Asserts

My first Kubernetes Cluster

In this post I will walk you through installing a Kubernetes or (K8S) cluster on your laptop. We will then configure it to run a micoservice shopping cart website. I am running on a MAC but this should be similar for a Windows based deployment too. Note: If you are Continue reading My first Kubernetes Cluster

Five ways to avoid Container Lock-in

So you are now running containers in production and you are starting to get the hang of things. You notice that while it was easy to get started, now your costs are going up as you add more and more containers. It my be time to move to a different Continue reading Five ways to avoid Container Lock-in

The kubectl vsphere container is here

Do you want to run kubectl vsphere commands from a container? Do you want to be able to specify containers and also call the VM Service in the same YAML file? Well you have come to the right place. I built a simple container that takes 5 variables and sends Continue reading The kubectl vsphere container is here

Project Pacific K8S explained in Amazon EC2 terms

Kubernetes is a cool and powerful development platform. Also with the announcement of Project Pacific it is not just a container platform anymore. With Pacific you can also spin up traditional virtual machines with the same Kubernetes commands as well as a fully compliant Kubernetes Cluster. When I first started Continue reading Project Pacific K8S explained in Amazon EC2 terms

What Project Pacific Really means for VMware

This week at VMworld, VMware announced Project Pacific, Kubernetes built into vSphere. As a VMware employee I have been following and supporting this project for some time. In my opinion this innovation is right there next to vMotion and HA, a simple and elegant feature that transform VMware from so Continue reading What Project Pacific Really means for VMware