BLUF Bottom Line Up Front Understand your IOP and Throughput peak needs before you create the cluster. Let the data dictate your requirements. VM IOPs are not the same as Disk IOPs, be sure you choose a VM and disk capable of your workloads peak. Think about potential growth. Is your…

Understanding an applications resource consumption is vital to ensuring proper performance in a Kubernetes cluster. This is part 1 of 3 and we will focus on looking at our application at rest to understand the resource impact the application has without any load Optimizing cluster performance isn’t something that is…

Ramblings from a veteran I have gone through many interviews in my nearly 20 years in the IT field. Many of them I had little interest in before even accepting an interview. I know some of you might be thinking “why waste everyone's time if you’re not interested?”. Well simply…

Be like water, my friend. It was bound to happen eventually Most of you who consume Kubernetes have likely already heard the news that Kubernetes is going to deprecate Docker support in an upcoming release. Surprisingly I have seen quite a bit of panic from both consumers who host their own clusters and from those who…

Knowing where you’re going by knowing where you’ve been So bonus points for anyone who knows that reference. Not like…cool points or anything…just…points. ;) One of the most water cooler talked about things I tend to hear is around monitoring VM performance. …

Limit Ranges Preventing Creation of Large Pods Preventing Creation of Tiny Pods Creating a Limit Range Applying a Limit Range Verifying the Range Deploying Pods Summary How much vs how little In my previous article I discussed Resource Quotas and gave an example of how and why someone may want…

Limiting resource consumption for multi-team clusters Always remember to evaluate your needs and requirements against what resources you have available to determine your best approach. Preventing Resource Exhaustion When limits are not enough In my previous article I discussed Resource Request and Limits to help people understand the importance of setting appropriate pod…

How much do I need vs how much can I use One of the most important things Kubernetes can do for you is to help ensure workloads are running on nodes capable of handling their resource requirements. …

Take advantage of the Diagnose and Solve Problems Blade within the portal to help troubleshoot common issues with your AKS Cluster Diagnose and Solve Problems Blade for AKS A portal based tool that can be used to diagnose and troubleshoot common and sometimes obscure issues to help you save time Kubernetes is a fairly large beast. Even…