Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Using Volumes in Kubernetes

Volumes in Kubernetes are used to store data used by our applications. So that concept is very similar to volumes in docker containers. But there are some subtle differences, as always in life; nothing can be simple. :) There are many types of volumes in Kubernetes, and in this post, we will group them by properties and see the some of the most common types. Like with docker, we will group them to local and remote volumes.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Friday, May 10, 2024

Declarative Kubernetes

Declarative Kubernetes With docker, we used docker run ... for each docker instance. We came at some point to situation where our commands became too long with many parameters or that running the same command again and again was time-consuming and mroe error-prone. That is where stopped using imperative approach and started to use declarative approach with docker-compose yaml files. Same is with imperative approach using kubectl .... as I showed you in the previous blog post about Kubernetes basics.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Kubernetes basics

Kubernetes basics For some time there were two great tools called DockerSwarm and Kubernetes, both trying to achieve similar goals, to be orchestration tools for containerized applications, but at some point it was clear that one of them became more popular among developers and became an industry standard. We could speculate saying that developers are lazy, and they don’t want to write complex yaml files for their deployments, but the truth is that Kubernetes is more flexible and extensible tool, provides more mature features, like self-healing, rollouts and rollbacks, secret management, auto-scaling and I mean really large scale applications, adoption by big companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, etc.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Docker Volumes

Docker Volumes I am using docker in personal and professional projects for a couple of years now. Like everybody else, I learned it as I went along and learned as little as I needed to know to be able to deliver what I wanted. I never had a chance to sit down and look deeper into it (as no one does these days). But from time to time, I like to dive deeper to figure out more about handling data with docker.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, February 19, 2024