This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Introduction If you’re familiar with Kubernetes, you already know that Kubernetes is a Container Orchestrator. However, if we look closer at its core, one could argue that Kubernetes appears to be more of an API Server for your infrastructure. In Kubernetes, everything is treated as an API object. All the resources in a Kubernetes cluster, such as pods, services, deployments, and others are represented as API objects. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Introduction This guide talks about two tools, Pluto and Nova. But before we dig deeper into the tools themselves, let’s first understand why such things are required. For that, we should first understand what is meant by deprecated Kubernetes APIs and why and when we should be concerned about them. Kubernetes APIs The Kubernetes API is the front-end of the Kubernetes control plane, through which a user interacts with their cluster. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. I recently passed the Certified Jenkins Engineer 2021 exam, scoring ~76%. This post talks about my overall exam experience and some tips. CJE Certificate Note: This post is not about exam dumps, as it defeats the whole purpose of this exam which is for you to demonstrate your knowledge. Also due to the NDA I agreed to by signing up for the exam, I can’t reveal any questions asked in this exam. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. ttl.sh ttl.sh is free to use, open source, anonymous and ephemeral docker image registry. It is developed by replicated. This guide looks at what an ephemeral and anonymous registry is, why you would want to use one, how to utilize ttl.sh, and some of its features. Why we need an ephemeral and anonymous registry - Management Overhead Docker registries are commonly used to store container images. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. CKAD and CKA Certificate I recently passed both CKA and CKAD exams, scoring 98% and 96% respectively. In this blog, I want to share my overall experience and tips to crack these exams. What is CKA? CKA is the Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification, which focuses on administrative skills of managing, troubleshooting and operating a kubernetes cluster. The CKA exam certifies that users can design, build, configure, and expose native cloud applications for Kubernetes. Read more