Shaun Abram
Java and Technology weblog
Subscribe to RSS FeedKubernetes HelloWorld
This tutorial covers how to deploy a simple HelloWorld app on Kubernetes, and expose it externally (as you might for a UI service, for example).
I found setting up the Kube cluster deployment very straightforward, but making it externally accessible much trickier, however it boils down to just two commands:
$ kubectl create -f boothello-deployment.yaml
$ kubectl expose -f boothello-service.yaml
Tags: docker, helloworld, k8s, kube, kubernetes
Why use containers?
Containers, and the supporting orchestration platforms, are increasingly popular tools for deploying applications. This article focuses on why you would want to use a container ecosystem. While there are many reasons, including portability and reduced boot times (compared to VMs), this article concentrates on security and cost.
We will focus on Docker, since it is by far the most dominant container, and on Kubernetes, since it seems to have “won” against alternatives such as Swarm and Mesos.
Tags: containers, continuousdeployment, docker, k8s, kube, kubernetes
Kubernetes Admin GUI
docker for mac now comes with Kubernetes support built in to it. It is now the easiest way to experiment with Kubernetes locally (previously, minikube seemed to be the easiest way). This feature was announced at DockerCon Europe in late 2017 and is supported in docker for mac versions 17.12.0-ce-mac45 or later. Note however, you do need to use the Edge version.
When you get Kubernetes running via docker for mac, you can access the admin GUI as follows…
Tags: k8s, kube, kubernetes
Using Docker with a maven project
If you have a maven project, there are a plethora of ways to enable it to run within a docker container.
Tags: containers, docker, helloworld, Maven, mvn, springboot
Rotate, Repave, and Repair
A quick summary of this thought provoking article “The Three Rs of Enterprise Security: Rotate, Repave, and Repair“, by @justinjsmith.
Tags: security
Post Production Debugging
Monitoring and Observing Your App Post Release
Pre-release tests are essential, but the ability to debug, monitor and observe your application suite post-release is what allows you to detect, and quickly fix, the production problems that will inevitably rise.
Tags: apdex, KPIs, monitoring, mttd, mttf, mttr, o11y, observability, production, SLAs
AWS S3 SLAs
According to the AWS S3 docs, S3 is designed for 99.99% availability over a given year, but their SLA compensates you when availability drops below 99.9% monthly uptime. That is, you will receive some level of refund (up to 25%) if there is more than 43 minutes of downtime per month.
Tags: aws, s3, servicelevelagreements, SLAs
JWTs
This post is a quick and dirty introduction to JWTs. Honestly, there are better resources out there to learn about JWTs. See the references section below. These are just some of my own, fairly hastily written, notes…
Tags: jsonwebtokens, jwt, jwts
Proxies: Forward versus reverse proxy
What is the difference between a forward and reverse proxy?
TLDR;
- A forward proxy is a client proxy. It manages outgoing traffic. For example, providing content restriction or facilitating anonymity.
- A reverse proxy is a server proxy. It manages incoming traffic, providing benefits such as load balancing and rate throttling.
- Both forward and reverse proxies can provide caching benefits.
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Tags: CDN, forwardproxy, proxy, reverseproxy
Maven (mvn) build hanging
I recently had a problem with a maven build hanging when doing a ‘mvn install’.
I found some pointers in this post, and posting here in a modified form: http://forum.spring.io/forum/spring-projects/roo/121725-what-diagnostic-action-to-take-when-maven-hangs
1. In the hanging shell, hit CTRL-Z – this will suspend the program and give you a pid. An alternative way to get the pid is to do a “ps -ef” and search for you mvn command e.g. “clean install”
2. type bg [ENTER] – this will send the program to the background
3. Do a kill -3 of the process – it will dump a large amount of text – make sure your command line terminal history window is long enough to capture it all – will be several thousand lines of text
(alternative to #3 – you can try jstack with the pid, it is a Java stack trace generator)
4. You can see what threads are waiting on other threads from there (maybe, sometimes it’s a tight CPU loop)