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Enabling TLS in the Dev Loop: Self-Signed Certs, nip, and edgestack.me

Daniel Bryant

It’s easy to spin up an app or microservice and access this via an IP address or localhost, but this isn’t a fully qualified domain name and doesn’t quite behave in the same way. I’ve already mentioned the Let’s Encrypt service, and there are of course a range of free and paid DNS service providers. AWS ALB vs NLB).

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Getting Started with Kubernetes Using Minikube

Linux Academy

Let’s expose our deployment behind a load-balancing service: $ kubectl expose deployment webserver-deployment --type=LoadBalancer --port=80 service/webserver-deployment exposed. We want our service to expose port 80 from our deployment’s containers behind a load balancer and this command will achieve just that.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

IT specialists with a bachelor’s degree in the relevant field and some practical experience commonly make the smooth transition to infrastructure engineering by taking appropriate courses. Here is a list of courses to consider if this opportunity is appealing to you or your company. other members of the IT team.

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Serverless in 2019: From ‘Hello World’ to ‘Hello Production’

Stacks on Stacks

of course they’d be much happier if you were still locked-in with their physical boxes. and patching, and scaling, and load-balancing, and orchestrating, and deploying, and… the list goes on! They’ll shout about vendor lock-in?—?of They’ll ignore the operational cost of actually running servers?—?and

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Containers have become the preferred way to run microservices — independent, portable software components, each responsible for a specific business task (say, adding new items to a shopping cart). Modern apps include dozens to hundreds of individual modules running across multiple machines— for example, eBay uses nearly 1,000 microservices.

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AoAD2 Practice: Evolutionary System Architecture

James Shore

Your network gateways and load balancers. There’s no Kubernetes, no Docker, no microservices, no autoscaling, not even any cloud. Microservices and Monoliths. Microservices are the most common reason I see for complex system architectures. That careful modularity will always break down, microservice proponents say.

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Understanding API Gateway: When You Need It and How to Implement

Altexsoft

Microservices and API gateways. It’s also an architectural pattern, which was initially created to support microservices. A tool called load balancer (which in old days was a separate hardware device) would then route all the traffic it got between different instances of an application and return the response to the client.