WildFly Kubernetes exec probes

Liveness and readiness probes tell Kubernetes whether a pod is running and ready to do some work. An enterprise application…

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Gossip-based Kubernetes Cluster on AWS using Kops

Creating a Kubernetes cluster using Kops requires a top-level domain or a sub domain and setting up Route 53 hosted zones.…

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Service Discovery with Java and Database application in Kubernetes

This blog will show how a simple Java application can talk to a database using service discovery in Kubernetes. Service…

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Starting a Kubernetes 1.5.x cluster

Kubernetes 1.5.0 was released just about a month ago! Key theme for the release are: StatefulSets (ex-PetSets) StatefulSets are beta now (fixes…

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Kubernetes Monitoring with Heapster, InfluxDB and Grafana

Kubernetes provides detailed insights about resource usage in the cluster. This is enabled by using Heapster, cAdvisor, InfluxDB and Grafana. Heapster is…

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Kubernetes: Simulating a network partition

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post explaining how to create a Neo4j causal cluster using Kubernetes and…

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Kubernetes: Spinning up a Neo4j 3.1 Causal Cluster

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post explaining how I’d created a Neo4j causal cluster using docker…

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Kubernetes: Writing hostname to a file

Over the weekend I spent a bit of time playing around with Kubernetes and to get the hang of the…

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Netflix OSS, Spring Cloud, or Kubernetes? How About All of Them!

Some of this I cover in my book “Microservices for Java Developers” O’Reilly June 2016 (launching soon!), but I want…

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