Hot as Bathwater When we first got our pool years ago I was considering installing a heater so we could enjoy swimming a bit longer. What no one told me was that here in Texas you really should consider a pool chiller. Come July and August the pool temperature rises into the 90s…

In the following demo we will walk through deploying the same sample container to the various Google Cloud compute platforms including Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes Engine, with just a few commands. Google has been working with containers internally since 2003. In 2006 they…

Managing Clusters w/ Cluster Registry The Cluster Registry is part of the kubernetes foundation but is not included in the distribution by default. It’s added through a simple kubectl apply command. The cluster registry provides a simple yet powerful feature in that it enables a new resource type of Cluster to be added to your…

Overview In this example we’ll create a single Istio mesh across multiple regionally separated GKE clusters. Once setup, we’ll demonstrate the installation using Istio’s BookInfo application. While you can accomplish this on your laptop, I’ll be demonstrating through Google Cloud Shell, which already includes many of the tools we’ll be using…

I’ve got this ESP8266 WiFi module hanging around that I’ve never really used. I also have a few Arduino UNOs sitting here not getting any use at the moment. I thought this would be a great time to put the two together for a project I’m working on. It wasn’t…

This article is a follow up to a couple previous ones, Global Kubernetes in 3 Steps on GCP which walks through setting up a global cluster, and Global ingress in practice on Google Container Engine — Part 1: Discussion which discusses how you would use a Global cluster with a…

In this article I’ll cover a variety of challenges I faced and solutions I figured out when deploying a real app to a Global Federated cluster using GCE ingress controller. I’ve covered how to setup Global Kubernetes in 3 steps in a separate article. This article will focus on how…

Creating a globally federated Kubernetes cluster may sound daunting but it really only takes a few small steps. Create the project and clusters Install and Join to kubefed Deploy globally The kubefed utility takes most of the effort out of this process. If you want to dig in and understand…