Kubernetes and Developers

Three years ago (April, 2018) Packt published my book Kubernetes for Developers. There weren’t many books related to Kubernetes on the market, and the implementation of Kubernetes was still early – solid, but early. Looking back, I’m pleased with the content I created. It’s still useful today, and for technical content that is pretty darnedContinue reading “Kubernetes and Developers”

Adding tracing with Jaeger to an express application

I have been following distributed tracing technologies – Zipkin, OpenTracing, Jaeger, and others – for several years, without deeply trialing with any of them. Just prior to the holidays, we were having a number of those “why is this slow?” questions about an express application, written in typescript, providing an API endpoint. The API frontsContinue reading “Adding tracing with Jaeger to an express application”

Review of using Helm to package and host applications

The open source project Helm represents itself as a package manager for Kubernetes. It does that pretty darn well, having been attached to the project from the earliest days of Kubernetes, and continues to evolve alongside, and now a bit more separately from, the Kubernetes project. Looking at Helm version 2, it provides three mainContinue reading “Review of using Helm to package and host applications”