Designing and Deploying Scalable Applications on Kubernetes on Empowering European Innovation

Advanced Deployment Strategies and Availability

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Section 5

Advanced deployment strategies and high availability

This section covers advanced deployment strategies, such as blue/green and canary deployments. Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys teach you how these strategies help minimize downtime and risks during updates, and how you can ensure high availability for your application by using Pod Disruption Budgets and other techniques.

Princip 9 Setting Pod resource requests and limits
Princip 10 Reserving capacity and prioritizing Pods
Princip 12 Pod Disruption Budget Princip 13 Strategies > stop the world

Automation and monitoring of applications

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Section 4

Automating and Monitoring Applications

This section teaches you the importance of preparing your application for observability and how to implement automation to facilitate operations and scaling. Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys cover topics such as monitoring, logging, and tracing, as well as how you can use these insights to make decisions about scaling and resource management.

Princip 5 Use probes correctly
Princip 6 Use signal handling correctly
Princip 7 Failing hard, fast, and loudly
Princip 8 Preparing your application for observability

Configuration, scaling, and container lifecycle

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Section 3

Configuration, scaling, and container lifecycle

In this section, Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys focus on configuration and lifecycle management of containers in Kubernetes. You’ll learn about the importance of separating secret and non-secret configurations, as well as how to prepare a component to both scale out and scale in in a controlled and effective manner.

Princip 02 Separate secret from non-secret configuration
Princip 14 Enabling automatic scaling
Princip 15 Utilizing container lifecycle hooks

Introduction to cloud-based applications and Kubernetes

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Section 1

Introduction to cloud-based applications and Kubernetes.

In this section with Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys, you’ll get an overview of cloud-based applications and an introduction to Kubernetes. You’ll learn about its key components, how they work together to create a scalable and reliable infrastructure, and what their equivalents are in AWS.

Managing Pods, Deployments & StatefulSets

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Episode 2

Managing Pods, Deployments, and StatefulSets

Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys give you a deeper understanding of how Pods, Deployments, and StatefulSets work, and how you can use them to build and scale your applications on Kubernetes. After watching this episode, you will have a solid foundation in managing applications that involve both stateless and stateful components.

Princip 01 Using Controllers for Pods
Princip 11 Force co-location of or spreading out Pods as needed

Security and limitations for Pods and networking

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Section 6

Security and constraints for Pods and networking

In this section, Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys examine the security aspects of running applications on Kubernetes. You will learn about the importance of restricting permissions and access for Pods, how to manage network policies, and how to improve the security of your applications by following best practices.

Princip 14 Restrict permissions
Princip 15 Limit attack surface

Summary and next steps

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Episode 7

Summary and next steps

In the final episode, Gabriel Paues from Safespring and Lars Larsson from Elastisys summarize all the material from the web series and discuss additional resources and recommendations to continue improving your Kubernetes and cloud-based applications. We cover key takeaways and tips to help you succeed in your ongoing journey to design, build, and deploy scalable and robust applications on Kubernetes. We also go through what we consider good next steps to deepen your knowledge in this field.