An overview of Kubernetes storage with Portworx: architecture, installation, replication, backup, and a practical pxctl cheatsheet to manage volumes on Docker and Kubernetes.
How Kubernetes’ declarative model and desired state principle work under the hood: from the API server and etcd to the kubelet, and why this makes deployments auditable and GitOps ready.
Practical techniques to drastically speed up your Ansible playbooks, from choosing the right strategy and increasing forks to async tasks, fact gathering and SSH optimizations, all benchmarked in a lab environment.
Why a proxy instance of your Binary Repository is more than a cache: its role in vulnerability scanning, governance and network segregation for containers and Kubernetes.
An introduction to Kubernetes Operators: what they are, how they work, when to prefer them over Helm, and how to build your own to automate complex application lifecycles.
A hands on tutorial to provision a fully managed Amazon EKS cluster with Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation, from networking setup to deploying and testing your application.