Mikko Kokkonen

New on the Axual Blog! 🚀 Get hands-on with Strimzi Kafka! Our latest article explains how to open a Kubernetes shell on a Kafka broker pod and securely list all Kafka topics with an SSL connection. It is ideal for developers looking to streamline Apache Kafka management on Kubernetes! Topics covered: Strimzi Kafka basics for Kubernetes Setting up an SSL connection Listing and describing Kafka topics in a few steps Ready to optimize your Kafka setup? Dive into the details here: https://lnkd.in/e-4f28MU

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🔧 Leveraging Limits for Consistent Prometheus Monitoring 🔧 “As companies scale Kubernetes into production, setting limits on metrics and labels is essential to keep Prometheus efficient and cost-effective,” explains Nicolas Takashi, Observability Tech Lead at Coralogix. In a new article, Nicolas dives into strategies for managing limits in Prometheus to ensure stable and predictable sample ingestion. Coralogix customers can avoid costly challenges like unbounded metrics and system instability—keeping Prometheus monitoring efficient, scalable, and cost-effective as they grow. 👉 Read the full article to learn more! https://lnkd.in/dsD6Gcs7 #Kubernetes #Prometheus #CloudNative #Observability #Coralogix

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🚀 As Kubernetes deployments grow, effective Prometheus monitoring becomes essential for stable scaling. By setting limits on metrics ingestion, companies can avoid costly challenges like unbounded metrics and ensure a more predictable and efficient Prometheus environment. In his recent article, Nicolas Takashi, Observability Tech Lead at Coralogix, breaks down how key limits on label cardinality and sample sizes help maintain system performance while enhancing insights. Uncontrolled metrics can lead to system instability, including memory overloads and even crashes. Nicolas explains how setting enforced limits on label length, name length, and sample counts provides a stable and manageable approach to scaling observability. As Prometheus remains the standard for Kubernetes monitoring, configuring these limits proactively will be key to avoiding ingestion overload and maintaining system health. #Prometheus #Kubernetes #Monitoring #Observability #SystemStability 📊🔍

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Is write once, run once becoming a reality? Does #WebAssembly / #WASM present an alternative to creating and maintaining secure and optimised containers to run application services? #kubernetes #cloudnative https://lnkd.in/eEAUHeDm

Navigating uncertainty and complexity is key in innovation. Discover the surprising parallels between Kafka's 'The Trial' and modern innovation practices in our latest blog post! https://lnkd.in/eTxSbKTi

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Alexander challenges the prevailing notion that templating is the root cause of complexity and frustration in Kubernetes. He argues that the real issue lies in multiple factors rather than templating alone. His reflections prompt a deeper discussion on whether the benefits of learning languages like CUE, with their unique paradigms, outweigh the convenience of simpler, more familiar approaches involving YAML and basic templating. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gjwcXdhT

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In this episode, we talk with Marvin Beckers from Kubermatic about KCP - a CNCF Sandbox project that provides a horizontally scalable control plane for Kubernetes-like APIs. https://lnkd.in/gez2JWgF

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We are already at KCD Munich warming up for our talk at 1:20 pm today at the top stage! 🎤 Don't miss the chance to listen to Janis Kemper and Aniruddha Basak talk about managing Kubernetes with the Cluster API and Cluster Stacks. You can also grab a cool #syself sticker and chat with us about any questions regarding #kubernetes #kcdmunich #clusterstacks #clusterapi #devops

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In Lounge by Zalando, we run an Elasticsearch cluster in Kubernetes to store user-facing article descriptions. Our business model is such that we receive about three times the normal load during the busy hour in the morning and therefore we use schedules to automatically scale in and out applications to handle that peak. If scaling out in the morning fails, we face a potential catastrophe. Juho Vuori, Senior Software Engineer, shares a story of one such case (and our learnings) on our Engineering Blog: https://zln.do/3KZ5zf5 #InsideZalando #ZalandoTech #ZalandoHelsinki

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Looking for some weekend reading? Learn how Envoy Gateway goes beyond the Gateway API In this blog post Huabing Zhao, Envoy Gateway maintainer, dives into how Envoy Gateway extends the Kubernetes Gateway API. Enabling you to take advantage of the powerful traffic handling features of Envoy Proxy. 👉 https://lnkd.in/guJeEzNg 💬 Got questions about Envoy Gateway? 🗓️ Book time with Envoy Gateway maintainers and experts at Tetrate to answer your questions: https://lnkd.in/g3WPJKMK ♻️ REPOST to help others save time. They shouldn't have to write their own Envoy Proxy control plane when they can use Envoy Gateway - the control plane part of the Envoy Proxy project. 🌟

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The ecosystem’s now crafting platforms atop Kubernetes, stitching together GitOps tools, application descriptors, and infrastructure management for custom APIs. But, can we push beyond Kubernetes’ framework limitations? #vshntimer https://lnkd.in/du4Eg8u2

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This article recounts the journey to Kubernetes 1.0, covering the project's early days, lessons learned from Borg and Omega, the evolution of the API, and key features added during the years. More: https://lnkd.in/eF6BGUnA

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If you got Cilium, then you definitely gotta have Gateway API as well. I mean, why not, right? It makes total sense cause it's more flexible than Ingress and has more capabilities than its cousin. Anyway, I'm not here to convince you which to pick (psst... pick Gateway API)... I'm here to announce the new article I published just today for installing cert-manager and fetching TLS certificates by integrating your preferred cloud provider. It goes from the installation of the operator in the Kubernetes cluster, creating the issuer, fetching a TLS certificate, and what's good without a concrete example if there wasn't an HTTPS application exposed at the end (spoiler alert, there is an example). Enjoy reading, and if you like the content, share it with your network. #kubernetes #cilium

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Shifting to Terraform is the first piece of the puzzle. Automating and governing cloud infrastructure with Terraform is the next level. ControlMonkey offers the most comprehensive Terraform Automation solutions for companies with large-scale environments. With tools for shifting 1000s of cloud resources to Terraform in a few clicks, Terraform CI/CD, Cloud Asset Inventory, AI-powered Drift Detection & Remediation, and many more, ControlMonkey is the one-stop-shop to manage and govern your cloud with Terraform truly. We invite you to Booth #348 for a technical discussion about Terraform, Automation, Cloud Governance, and everything in between. If you're managing large-scale environments and looking to increase your cloud team efficiency while reducing risks, drop by our booth and learn more about us. (: Looking forward to seeing you there. 😎 You can book a time to meet us there: https://lnkd.in/dgaVARYi #aws #devops #terraform #opentofu #reinvent

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Amazon ECR now supports GitLab Container Registry as an upstream registry for pull-through cache, allowing automatic image synchronization to private ECR repositories on Amazon Web Services (AWS) https://lnkd.in/dyqmrHbQ #aws #awscloud

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Our Development focus for this week at #NuNet 👀 📂 Implement p2p file transfer in CLI 🦾 Semantic versioning improvements 🔗 Kubernetes Integration Scope and Definitions In Review now: ▶️ Elastic search infrastructure For more 👉 https://gitlab.com/nunet

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