Author: Vick Kelkar

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Vick Kelkar. Introduction to Helm tool Helm is a tool that makes the installation and management of Kubernetes applications efficient. Helm helps you manage Kubernetes Charts. Charts are a collection of information and files needed to create an instance of a running Kubernetes application. There are three main concepts in Helm: Charts – Collections of files inside a directory used to create a Kubernetes application Config – Contains configuration information used to create a releasable object Release – A running instance of a Chart Helm has two main components:      Client – Sends Charts to the server ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Vick Kelkar. This tutorial will show you how to easily set up a Kubernetes cluster on a public cloud using a tool called “Kops.” This post is a complement to our Kubernetes webinar, in which we explained the basic Kubernetes primitives, and our previous blog posts about Redis Enterprise Service and local Kubernetes development. For this tutorial, we will use the latest publicly available container image of Redis Enterprise Software. You can read about the high performance, in-memory Redis Enterprise 5.0.2 software release here. What is Kops? Kops stands for “Kubernetes Operations” and is an official ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Vick Kelkar. Containers are lightweight, stand-alone, portable, self contained software execution environments. Containers have their own CPU, memory, I/O and networking resources but they share the kernel of the host operating system. Containers are based on linux namespaces and cgroups. Namespaces (developed by IBM) create resource isolation for a single process while cgroups (developed by Google) manage resources for a group of processes. Containers have low startup overhead compared to that of a virtual machine running on a hypervisor. Containers are quickly becoming the basic unit of development and software packaging because they decouple applications from ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Vick Kelkar. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system used to deploy, scale and manage containerized applications. Kubernetes is a project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).  At a very high level, it contains two types of resources: a master node (which is the cluster coordinator) and nodes, which are the workers that run containerized applications. Minikube is a tool used to run a Kubernetes cluster on a local machine. Minikube is a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your laptop. Minikube can be used to try out Kubernetes and or develop with ... Read More