Best of Orchestration — February 2024

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   AWS in Plain English·2y

   Concept of Docker in detail

   Docker is a platform for creating and running applications using containers. Containers are lightweight and efficient, providing a consistent environment for applications. Docker simplifies the containerization process and offers various tools and commands for managing images, containers, networks, and volumes. Docker Swarm is an easy-to-use container orchestration tool with advantages like native integration, security, scalability, high availability, and centralized management. Docker Compose is used for managing multi-container applications, while Docker Hub is a repository for sharing and managing Docker images.

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   Lobsters·2y

   1.5+ million PDFs in 25 minutes

   Zerodha shares their journey of rethinking the architecture and building an architecture from scratch to process, generate, digitally sign, and email 1.5+ million PDF contract notes in about 25 minutes.

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   finout·2y

   K3s vs. K8s: Breaking Down the Differences and Deciding When to Use Each

   Comparison between K3s and K8s, highlighting their key differences and use cases.

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   Medium·2y

   13 Kubernetes Tricks You Didn’t Know

   Discover 13 useful Kubernetes tricks that can enhance management, scalability, and security of containerized applications. Learn about PreStop hooks, automated secret rotation, debugging with ephemeral containers, horizontal pod autoscaling with custom metrics, using init containers for setup scripts, node affinity for workload-specific scheduling, taints and tolerations for pod isolation, pod priority and preemption, configmaps and secrets for dynamic configuration, direct container debugging with kubectl debug, efficient resource management with requests and limits, extending Kubernetes with custom resource definitions (CRDs), and leveraging the Kubernetes API for dynamic interaction and automation.

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   AWS in Plain English·2y

   How to Transform Kubernetes Manifests into Helm Charts?

   Learn how to transform Kubernetes manifests into Helm Charts, making deployments more efficient and manageable. Understand Helm basics, organize your manifests, create a Helm chart structure, customize values, refactor manifests using Helm templating, and install the Helm chart. Also, get additional tips and best practices for chart versioning and dependency management.

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