Kong is a widely-used open-source API gateway that helps organizations manage and secure their APIs at scale. However, operating Kong at scale can present a number of reliability challenges. In this blog, I’ll discuss some of these challenges and how to addressed them. The blog is based on my experience…

This article explores Kong API Gateway’s support for load balancing, upstreams, and targets, as well as its active and passive health check capabilities. …

This article explores the timer-related challenges that Kong production environments commonly face and provides effective strategies to mitigate these issues, ensuring a reliable and efficient API Gateway operation. Introduction to OpenResty timer OpenResty is a web platform that includes a modified version of the Nginx web server, with additional features…

When containers were first introduced as a way to package microservices, they were designed to be entirely stateless and ephemeral. Typically, stateless applications are microservices or containerised applications that aren’t required to store data. …

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes (think apt or yum). It works by combining several manifests into a single package that is called a chart. …

Organizations adopting containers and Kubernetes will end up running and maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters. Some are used as production, some as QA while others are used as short-lived dev environments. Development teams might require third-party off-the-shelf applications (aka cluster add-ons) like Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Argo Workflows etc. …

In this post, I am going to explain what is GitOps and ArgoCD are and how to implement GitOps deployment model on your local development environment with k3s/k3d and ArgoCD. You may want to have a local development environment for deploying applications using GitOps model for the following reasons Evaluate…

Local dev environment for Argo Workflows can help us to develop and test workflow configurations however setting up Argo Workflows can be a pain at times. …

There are a lot of reasons why you might want to have your personal Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes cluster on your development machine, giving you fast iteration times in a production-like environment. There are several option to setup a Kubernetes cluster on a local machine for development or testing purposes. But…