Introduction This article provides a walkthrough the basics of Kubernetes. It presents Kubernetes, its main role, its components and workload ressources. What is Kubernetes Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is an open-source platform for managing containerized applications (or simply, it is an orchestration tool). A container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of…

Introduction KVM stands for Kernel based Virtual Machine and according to Redhat, it is an open source virtualization technology built into Linux. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual machines (VMs). In today’s article…

What is DevOps According to IBM, DevOps has become an increasingly common approach to software delivery that development and operations teams use to build, test, deploy, and monitor applications with speed, quality, and control. DevOps is essential for any business aspiring to be lean, agile, and capable of responding rapidly to changing marketplace…

Introduction In my previous articles , i have covered monitoring using Prometheus along with Grafana. and alerting using the AlertManager integrated to Prometheus. In today’s article, i will mainly cover the topic of integrating the Postgres exporter to Prometheus in order to get PostgreSQL databases metrics for a monitoring purpose. Setting up the Postgres exporter Download the Postgres Exporter Binary

Introduction In today’s world we deal a lot with real-time streaming data and events that come from a bunch of different sources and from which we can derive stats, facts and information that are crucial for today’s businesses. Processing and storing these real-time streams in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner is…

Introduction The Splunk Source connector provided by Confluent does not support receiving data from a Splunk Universal Forwarder or Splunk Heavy Forwarder. This connector simply listens on a network port of an application that posts data to Splunk. In this article, i will be focuing on setting up Splunk Source Connector…

Introduction In today’s world we deal a lot with real-time streaming data and events that come from a bunch of different sources and from which we can derive stats, facts and information that are crucial for today’s businesses. Processing and storing these real-time streams in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner is…

Introduction In my previous articles, i have explained how to mount the Object Storage Bucket as a File System on Flexible Engine’s ECS Instances. Flexible Engine Python SDK. Using the s3fs-fuse project. In this article, i will be using the s3fs-fuse project along with the Swift S3 API to mount OVH…