2 reasons that make OpenPOWER the Uber of Server Hardware
A recent read in fortune.com titled “Pity the Poor Hardware Provider in the Age of Cloud” and another piece a year back on zdnet.com “Do server vendors have an answer for the white box...
Author: Pradipta Kumar Banerjee
Understanding Kubernetes Authentication and Authorization
Authentication and authorization are two very important requirements when setting up a production Kubernetes cluster. In this article let’s go through some details which will help you to plan your Kubernetes environment. The basic...
Howto Configure flannel Overlay Network with VXLAN for Docker on Power Servers
Flannel provides a configurable virtual overlay network for use with containers. For a multi-host container cluster this provides an easy way to have a routable IP address inside the cluster. Flannel uses etcd distributed...
Digital Transformation and API-first Strategy
Digital transformation is no longer just a buzz word. It’s directly impacting a company’s business. Customers are increasingly using digital touch points for interactions and a company without an effective digital strategy is surely...
How to deploy a Hybrid Application with Legacy Backend on a Kubernetes Cluster
In an enterprise, it’s very common to have a hybrid application topology consisting of a cloud-native frontend and a legacy backend eg. database cluster. If you are using Kubernetes cluster for your cloud-native applications,...
Howto Setup Docker Private Registry with Basic HTTP Auth Support
In this post let’s see how to setup a docker private registry (ver 2.x) with TLS and HTTP authentication on an OpenPower server running RHEL 7.1 LE Linux distribution. Except the specific instruction related to...
Creating an Intel and OpenPower Heterogeneous Kubernetes Cluster
In this article let’s see how to manage a heterogeneous Kubernetes cluster consisting of Intel and OpenPower nodes. Given below is my example setup along with the docker daemon command line used. Node Docker...
DevOps in the Year 2016 !!
Whenever I meet my clients these days, one of the key points in any discussions is inadvertently around DevOps. DevOps has become so immensely critical, that you cannot ignore it anymore!! In one such...
Deploying a Service on a Kubernetes Cluster
In this article let us see how to deploy a Kubernetes Service. If you are looking to setup and install Kubernetes please have a look at my previous article. First, let us understand what exactly...
Build and Deploy an OpenPower based Kubernetes Cluster
Upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 code-named Xenial includes golang-1.6 for PowerPC LE (ppc64le) architecture. This makes it very easy to build Kubernetes from upstream source and use it to install and setup an OpenPower Kubernetes based...
