Kubernetes API Gateway
With the Prometheus Operator
In the Kubernetes ecosystem, one of the emerging themes is how applications can best take advantage of the various capabilities of Kubernetes. The Kubernetes community has also introduced new concepts, such as Custom Resources, to make it easier to build Kubernetes-native software.
In late 2016, CoreOS introduced the Operator pattern and released the Prometheus Operator as a working pattern example. The Prometheus Operator automatically creates and manages Prometheus monitoring instances.
February 7, 2017 | 7 min read
Telepresence
Telepresence is a powerful open source tool that allows you to code and test a service locally against a remote Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to quickly build and debug a local service that is dependent on a large number of remote services and resource-hungry remote middleware or databases. Telepresence is now available in developer preview for Windows and in this guide, you will learn how to install Telepresence and create an “intercept” to route traffic from your cluster to your local environment on Windows machines.
Before you begin
This article assumes that you have your own remote cluster with an application deployed that uses the microservices architecture and you want to intercept (or re-route) traffic to a service in that cluster. If you do not have your own cluster but would like to try Telepresence you can follow this quickstart with a free demo cluster from Ambassador Labs.
January 31, 2017 | 8 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
Managing AWS Costs with Reserved Instances
AWS reserved instances are an economical way to reduce your AWS costs. Here at Ambassador Labs, we’ve adopted some basic strategies for optimizing our costs. These strategies are designed for companies that don’t want to invest a lot of tools and technologies in optimizing cost, yet want to make sure things don’t get out of control.
Here’s our list of strategies:
December 16, 2016 | 2 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
Kevin Marks / November 3, 2016
Making microservices resilient and self-healing
A worry that people have when moving to microservices from a monolithic application is that there are more moving parts where something can go wrong; that a problem with any of the services will take everything down.
November 3, 2016 | 9 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
An Illustrated Guide to Microservices
This talk explains key principles, costs, and benefits of microservices and shows via a series of live demos and working examples how to extend a Python application to quickly and easily benefit from migrating to a microservices architecture.
August 25, 2016 | 1 min read
Kubernetes API Gateway
Companies thriving in the new world order have technology as a core competency. They build complex cloud applications. They constantly bring new capabilities and features to the market. And despite the constant iteration and updates to their cloud application, their software is rock-solid reliable. How do they achieve such agility and reliability?
Over the past few years, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, Yelp, and many other industry disruptors adopted a new paradigm for developing cloud applications – microservices. The velocity that microservices is giving these disrupters is even raising software architecture to board agendas.
Whether the term microservices is vaguely familiar or something you haven’t encountered yet, this article will cover what it is, why it matters, and what will change in your company when you adopt it.
August 4, 2016 | 14 min read
