Category Archives: How To
Does containerization affect the performance of databases?
Written on May 2, 2024 at 11:10 AM, by Guest Post
This post has been provided by DoK community sponsor ApeCloud and authored by Cai Songlu The wave of database containerization is on the rise, as clearly shown in Fig.1. Databases and…
Get started with AI on AWS with MLFlow and Notebooks on K8s
Written on October 25, 2023 at 10:49 AM, by Diogenese
A summary of our discussion during our DoKC Town Hall held in October. Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) Town Halls allow our community to meet one another, share end user…
How to build a cloud-native event-driven app and deploy to Kubernetes
Written on November 28, 2022 at 10:39 AM, by melissa
In the following tutorial, we will explore and learn the foundations of building an event-driven app based on a cloud-native approach. We will develop several cloud-native microservices, deploy them over…
From Laptop to Cloud: Developing Cloud-Native Applications with Containerized Databases
Written on November 28, 2022 at 9:35 AM, by melissa
With the advent of microservices in Kubernetes, individual developer teams now manage their own data, middleware, and databases. Automated tests and CI/CD pipelines must be revisited to include these new…
Protection against accidental deletion of PVs or Namespaces
Written on November 16, 2022 at 9:40 AM, by melissa
Accidental PVC delete or namespace delete can cause the Persistent Volume to get deleted. Such volumes lose their data, and the stateful applications lose their state. By using Persistent Volume…
Protecting data with CSI Volume Snapshots on Kubernetes
Written on August 22, 2022 at 11:53 AM, by melissa
The container storage interface (CSI) is a contract between different container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc.) and storage plugins. This contract is a set of gRPC services for provisioning, utilizing, and…
Automating Azure Files Restore in AKS
Written on August 22, 2022 at 7:31 AM, by melissa
If you are considering Azure Files as the persistent storage for your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) applications, there are important considerations for backup and recovery with implications on how you…
Designing Stateful Apps for the Cloud and Kubernetes
Written on April 11, 2022 at 6:59 AM, by melissa
Almost all applications have some kind of stateful part. How do we navigate a cloud-based world of containers where stateless and functions-as-a-service are all the rage? As a long-time architect,…
Production Postgres Made Easy on Kubernetes
Written on April 4, 2022 at 6:28 AM, by melissa
It’s one thing to get a database up and running on Kubernetes; it’s another to run it in production. There are many “Day 2” operations to manage when running any…
