I run probably more than a hundred kubectl commands on some days, as you can tell I like to try out things. After a while I started to notice some patterns and realized I can pretty much condense 99% of all my kubectl usage into single-word bash aliases. Read More →

If I were to point out one reason why Kubernetes is taking off, I would probably say because of its awesome community. The second reason would be the flexibility of the Kubernetes API and how easy it is to write custom extensions or plugins on top of it. In this article, I’ll dig deep in a new concept: Initializers, which is a dynamic and pluggable way of modifying Kubernetes resources before they are actually created. Read More →

Network Policies is a new Kubernetes feature to configure how groups of pods are allowed to communicate with each other and other network endpoints. In other words, it creates firewalls between pods running on a Kubernetes cluster. This guide is meant to explain the unwritten parts of Kubernetes Network Policies. Read More →

With about 150 services and going strong authenticating to Google APIs can sometimes seem intimidating to program against. In this blog post, I will take Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as an example and show how to use its REST API in Go and Python. Read More →

Google Container Registry is probably the easiest to use container image storage solution out there. I want to share some tips and tricks I found out about in the past few months. Read More →

A few weeks ago I released a small tool called kubectx that makes it easy to use kubectl command on multiple clusters. Today, I am adding another tool called kubens that can be used to switch between Kubernetes namespaces back and forth. Read More →

I recently found myself typing a lot of keystrokes just to switch between the GKE clusters I’m currently using. The kubectl command line tool currently does not make it as easy as I would like, so I wrote my own tool. Read More →

Last month, I switched my static HTML blog from a 5$/month DigitalOcean instance to the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to pay only a few cents every month. This blog post is about how I automatically publish articles on my GitHub repository to the storage buckets using the newly released Google Cloud Container Builder. Read More →