In this blog post, we will cover Deployments & Replicaset K8s objects. To understand deployments, we will start with Replicasets(we will soon know why). Below would be the flow of this post.

- What are Replicasets & why exactly do we need them?- Practical example with Replicasets- What are Deployments & why exactly do we need them?- Practical example with Deployments

In our previous post, we saw what Replicasets are; in this post, let’s try to understand what a K8s Deployment object is step-by-step with some practical examples.

In K8s, pods are the fundamental basic units that get deployed in a cluster. K8s deployment is an abstraction layer for the pods. The deployment K8s object's primary purpose is to help maintain the desired state resources as declared in the deployment configuration.

But wait, didn’t you just say Replicaset does the same thing, then why do we need another K8s object deployment?

Let’s assume in the production environment; we are running an…

Eight months back I was a stranger to security & specifically PenTesting. Felt awesome today passing the eCPPTv2 exam, after finishing certifications like eCXD, eCRE & eJPT previously. In all honesty, being new to PenTesting this course was not an easy one for me, but I learned a lot. I got a lot of support from eLearnSecurity forums & also their unofficial discord channel.

I will have a detailed write-up on my journey here soon. Till then ciao!

Background

Terraform is the infrastructure as a Code (IaC) offering from HashiCorp. It is a tool for building, changing and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way.

It is based on similar IaC philosophy as Aws’s CloudFormation. Operators and Infrastructure teams can use Terraform to manage environments with a configuration language called the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) for human-readable, automated deployments.

The Terraform Associate certification is either for those cloud engineers that specialize in operations/IT, or for those developers who know or would like to know the basic concepts, and skills associated with open source HashiCorp Terraform.

I have used infrastructure…

Intro to K8s services with examples

In this post, we will look at the K8s(Kubernetes) services. This blog post covers the following:

- What are services & examples
- Types of services
- Look into each service type with practical examples

In Kubernetes, a Service is an abstraction which defines a logical set of Pods and a policy by which to access them (sometimes this pattern is called a micro-service).

Cool yay! we now know the definition, but why do we need a service?

Why can’t users just talk directly with the pods that host the applications? …

In this post, we will look at

• What Kubernetes(K8s) Labels and Selectors are
• Why do we need them
• How to use them

Let’s try to understand the concept with an analogy. If you ever have looked at different types of homes, one can see townhomes, condos, Single Family Homes, apartments, etc.

Let’s say we would like to categorize these homes by

- Size(sqft area)- Type(condo, apartment, sfh, townhome)- Number of people(2,4,6,8+)

These are nothing but Labels. Selectors help filter out things like gives all homes which are of type SFH and greater than 500sqft in size. …

Continuing from our Part1 of the series, let’s now take a look at Persistent Volumes

Persistent Volume type1: Cloud Volumes

With this type of volume, we are instructing through a YAML file to connect to one of the cloud providers(EBS/persistent disk/SSD, etc. with Google/Amazon/Azure, etc.) for volumes.

Wait a minute, since we are directly connecting with the volume on the cloud(no layer which is helping us manage the volume), don't we need to have the backend knowledge. Yes, we certainly need to have backend knowledge to manage these volumes.

Let’s try creating a volume using GKE, using the documentation from here

Started with creating a…

quick intro to docker containers

This is a simple series of tutorial on Docker.

Goal

Learn Docker concepts quickly without getting lost in minute details. Provide tools one would need to create and run your first containerized application using Docker, enabling one to be able to look for more by yourself when needed.

Prerequisites

Nothing as such. One can install Docker from here

Basic Concepts

A container is what we eventually want to run and host with the Docker engine.

From a conceptual point of view, a container runs inside the Docker host isolated from the other containers and even the host OS. …