ChaosBlade: A Tool for Large-Scale Kubernetes Fault Injection

ChaosBlade: A Tool for Large-Scale Kubernetes Fault Injection

Author | Ye Fei Source | Alibaba Middleware Team 1 ChaosBlade With the development of cloud-native technologies, the consistency, reliability, and flexible orchestration capabilities of cloud-native applications have led most enterprises to choose to migrate their applications to the cloud. However, the cloud infrastructure faces significant challenges in terms of stability and observability. ChaosBlade is … Read more

Kubernetes Pod Priority And Preemption: Ensuring Resources For Critical Pods

Kubernetes Pod Priority And Preemption: Ensuring Resources For Critical Pods

Follow Our Official Account, Don’t Get Lost on the Technical Road Introduction When running a Kubernetes cluster, it is crucial to ensure that critical Pods receive the resources they need to operate normally. This can be challenging if your cluster is heavily loaded or lacks sufficient available resources. One way to ensure that critical Pods … Read more

Edge Computing and Native Cloud Ecosystems

Edge Computing and Native Cloud Ecosystems

Moving intensive workloads from the cloud to the network edge reduces latency, lowers bandwidth, and shortens return paths—these are well-known advantages of edge computing. In 2018, whether it’s mobile portable devices or IoT devices, whether it’s video stream data or machine learning data, everything is moving closer to and concentrating on end devices. As a … Read more

Finding Approaches to Writing AI Agents After a Month

Finding Approaches to Writing AI Agents After a Month

1. Continuously Trying to Implement AI Application End Based on my understanding of operations and maintenance, I developed an open-source operation and maintenance tool https://github.com/shaowenchen/ops. The Ops tool divides operation and maintenance tasks into two categories: script execution and file distribution, while the operation and maintenance targets, hosts and Kubernetes clusters, implement these two types … Read more

Quick Understanding of Kubernetes Storage Concepts

Quick Understanding of Kubernetes Storage Concepts

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for cloud-native distributed operating systems, with its greatest advantage being scalability. Whether in computing, storage, or networking, it can flexibly expand according to user needs. I once shared on the topic of Kubernetes Storage within my team, with content that was quite basic, aimed at inspiring everyone’s thoughts. … Read more

Containerd Basics: A Comprehensive Guide

Containerd Basics: A Comprehensive Guide

This article covers: 1. Installing Containerd 2. Running a busybox image 3. Creating a CNI network 4. Enabling network functionality for containerd containers 5. Sharing directories with the host 6. Sharing namespaces with other containers 7. Using docker/containerd together 1. Installing Containerd Local installation of Containerd: yum install -y yum-utils yum-config-manager –add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo yum install … Read more

Principles to Implementation | K8S Storage with NFS

Principles to Implementation | K8S Storage with NFS

Click on the “K8S Chinese Community” above and select “Top Official Account” Key moments, delivered at the first time! 1 NFS Introduction NFS stands for Network File System, which is a type of file system supported by FreeBSD. NFS is implemented based on RPC (Remote Procedure Call), allowing a system to share directories and files … Read more

Best Practices for Slimming Docker Images in Kubernetes

Best Practices for Slimming Docker Images in Kubernetes

In production environments, it is often necessary to slim down container images, which means making the images built from the Dockerfile small enough. This article introduces how to elegantly reduce the size of Docker images. Benefits of Slimming Images Reduces build time. Reduces disk usage. Reduces download time, speeding up container startup, which is particularly … Read more

Lightweight Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pi with Servercore

Lightweight Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pi with Servercore

Servercore is a dynamic cloud platform that recently launched its servers in the vibrant city of Nairobi, Kenya. I was attracted by their free coupon offer to experience their cloud resources, so I couldn’t resist exploring their proud unique server specifications, including the Raspberry Pi 4B server. Servercore: https://servercore.com/ In this guide, we will introduce … Read more

Understanding Kubernetes Probes and Health Checks in 5 Minutes

Understanding Kubernetes Probes and Health Checks in 5 Minutes

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that greatly simplifies the creation and management of applications. Distributed systems like Kubernetes can be challenging to manage because they involve many active components, all of which must work properly for the entire system to run smoothly. Even if a small component fails, it needs to be detected … Read more