This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Introducing Sloop Sloop is an open source tool to visualize history of all resources in your kubernetes cluster. It was built by salesforce. Problem: Keeping track of events in your clusters Workloads running in Kubernetes cluster are dynamic in nature. The pods, replicas, deployments in your cluster keeps going on and off over the period of time due to their ephemeral nature. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in kubezilla community. Introduction K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution which runs with a very small footprint and is a suitable candidate for edge computing. K3s is capable of nearly everything k8s can do. It is just a more lightweight version. It is the ONLY certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing. It is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Introduction Okteto is an open source tool to develop and test your code directly in Kubernetes. In this guide will walk you through how to develop Java application on a Kubernetes cluster using Okteto. Defining the Problem Systems based on microservice architecture have many advantages like scalability, resilience, fault tolerance and so on. But they are also harder to setup locally as a development environment due to their very nature. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Fairwinds Goldilocks is an open source tool that recommends the right settings for resource requests and limits on kubernetes workloads. It was built by Fairwinds (formerly ReactiveOps). Problem It is said that good fences make good neighbors, it’s true for applications too. Applications were typically designed to run standalone in a machine and use all of the resources at hand. Read more

This blog was originally featured as a guide in civo cloud community. Polaris is an open-source project that looks for configuration issues in kubernetes that can affect stability, reliability, scalability, and security. It was built by Fairwinds (formerly ReactiveOps). Problem Creating cluster is easy, but running it at scale with stability and security is hard. We have seen this often: a small mistake in deployment configuration can later result in bigger issues. Read more