Posts Tagged "kubernetes"

Day 25: Canary Deployments and Feature Flags – Safe Rollouts

Welcome to Day 25 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll cover canary deployments and feature flags, two essential techniques for safe, controlled software rollouts in Kubernetes.

Day 24: Scaling Applications with Kubernetes HPA and Cluster Autoscaler

Welcome to Day 24 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into autoscaling in Kubernetes, focusing on Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler to efficiently manage workloads..

Day 22: Building Developer Portals with Backstage

Welcome to Day 16 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) and how to build one using Backstage, an open-source platform that enhances developer experience by centralizing documentation, services, APIs, and deployments.

Day 19: Chaos Engineering – Building Resilient Systems

Welcome to Day 19 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll explore Chaos Engineering, its origins with Netflix’s Simian Army, and modern tools like LitmusChaos, Gremlin, and LambdaChaos that help test system resilience.

Day 20: Recap – Creating a Basic Observability Stack

Welcome to Day 20 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re doing a recap of observability best practices and assembling a basic observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.

Day 18: Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Welcome to Day 18 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Distributed Tracing using OpenTelemetry, an essential tool for monitoring request flows across microservices.

Day 17: Visualizing Data with Grafana

Welcome to Day 17 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on visualizing Kubernetes metrics with Grafana, creating real-time dashboards to monitor application performance.

Day 16: Getting Started with Prometheus – Monitoring Metrics

Welcome to Day 16 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll explore Prometheus, the go-to tool for monitoring Kubernetes and collecting real-time metrics.

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