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By Sami Amoura. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a service to deploy a fully managed Kubernetes cluster. This service is called Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Amazon EKS gives you the flexibility to start, run, and scale Kubernetes applications in the AWS cloud or on-premises. Amazon EKS helps you provide highly-available and secure clusters and […]

By Yann Albou. Working with Kubernetes on a local machine when you are a Dev or an Ops is not as easy as we could think. So, how to easily create a local Kubernetes cluster that would meet these needs ? At SoKube we heavily use k3d and k3s for these purposes. More than a […]

By Sébastien Féré. Over the last twenty years, Open Source Software components – powered by a vibrant Open Source community – have radically changed the way we develop software. A "proxy" instance of a Binary Repository can do much more than just caching artifacts. This article details some opportunities from security best practices to advanced […]

By Fabrice Vergnenègre. Photo by Bharat Patil on Unsplash Every day at Sokube we evangelize GitOps as a way to simplify, improve and accelerate digital operations, and we support our customers on this journey. With the abundance of technology bricks that now compose the "Cloud Native" landscape, something that years ago looked difficult and hazardous […]

By Fabrice Vergnenègre. Photo by David Marcu on Unsplash — TL;DR Who said practising GitOps always requires complex tooling and expensive infrastructure, even for simple scenarios ? In this article, we will demonstrate how to setup (and run) a GitOps environment with K3D and Argo CD for local development. Operating an application the GitOps way […]

By Yann Albou. This blog post was originally published on Medium Why having a very fast startup, low memory footprint, native compilation with standard frameworks fit perfectly in Docker and Kubernetes improving scalability, resiliency and security. Photo by Guillaume Jaillet on Unsplash  TL;DR; In this blog post, I show you how Quarkus can run a […]

By Sébastien Féré. A few days ago, I passed the CKAD exam – the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer – and scored a respectable 95% and also got rewarded with the CKAD badge! I hope my story will help you either in getting your certification or in giving you the desire to pass one of the CNCF […]

By Yann Albou. This blog post was originally published on Medium Docker, Containerd, CRI-O, are all about containers but what are the differences, the pros and cons and the purpose of having several « docker implementations », are they all kubernetes compatible. The multiplicity of container engines and tools like crictl, podman, buildha, skopeo, kaniko […]

By Yann Albou. This blog post was originally published on Medium Desired state is one of the core concepts of Kubernetes. Through a declarative or an imperative API (I will come back to this notion later) you describe the state of the objects (Pod, ReplicatSet, Deployment, …) that will run the containers. Kubernetes, via the […]