Containers seem to be a buzzword in the industry nowadays. As more and more companies are undergoing cloud transformation, they are hoping to convert their legacy applications into containerized ones. This is being done all while trying to adapt to a microservice…
K8s Hello World
Imagine embarking on a journey across uncharted seas—the world of software deployment. Navigating these waters is akin to steering a ship, facing challenges that range from smooth sailing to avoiding treacherous downtime, all while adapting to ever-changing conditions. Just as a…
Your First Docker Container
In last week’s blog , we had learned what containers were, the benefits they offered, how they are built, and their use cases. This week, let’s apply what we have learned on a small sample project, to containerize it, and run it. A Quick…
What Is gRPC
Most times, when we want to bridge the communication between two services, developers opt to use REST API. This however, presents a problem when trying to communicate between two services using different networks or languages. This is where gRPC comes in.gRPC…
Enhancing Your Pixie PXL Script By Manipulating Data
Pixie can be utilized for gathering monitoring metrics from your clusters. It offers you the benefit of having pre-written scripts, as well as custom scripts that extrapolate data. The custom scripts are written in Pixie’s very own language, PXL, which is…
Advanced PXL Script Functions
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been covering the powerful cluster monitoring tool, Pixie. We have covered how to get custom data by writing your own PXL script . We have also covered how to enhance your custom script by using data manipulation…
Anomalies in Graphs
Graph Graphs are a kind of data structure that models a set of data objects and their relationships. The data objects are typically known as Nodes and their relationship as Edges. In a simpler way, one can visualize an edge as…
Evans CLI – A Go gRPC Client
Evans CLI is a command-line tool designed to facilitate interaction with Go gRPC services. It offers a range of features that simplify the testing and debugging of gRPC services. Here are some of the advantages of using Evans CLI: Advantages of…
Health Check Probes and it’s importance
Health check probes, a Kubernetes concept to determine if a container in a pod is running and serving traffic or not, aka healthy or not. 😃 Types of Probes Liveness Probe – To check whether the container is running and is used…
Writing Your First Pixie PXL Script
Pixie is an amazing tool used for monitoring Kubernetes clusters. It allows you to easily visualize different metrics about your cluster, all available from the easy-to-use Pixie Live UI. You might have noticed that different types of monitoring data from Pixie…