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GCP: Installing KEDA on a GKE cluster with workload identity and testing Scalers


Categories: Hyperscaler, Kubernetes

KEDA is an open-source event-driven autoscaler that greatly enhances the abilities of the standard HorizontalPodAutoscaler.  It can scale based on internal metrics as well as external Scaler sources. In this article, I will illustrate how to install KEDA on a GKE cluster that has Workload Identity enabled, and then how to configure KEDA scaling events … GCP: Installing KEDA on a GKE cluster with workload identity and testing Scalers

Kubernetes: restart a simple pod


Categories: Kubernetes

A pod belonging to a deployment can be manually deleted, scaled down, or restarted to get a fresh pod.  However, if all you have is a simple pod definition, these actions are not available. One way of restarting the pod is to output its full yaml definition and use ‘kubectl replace’ with the force option. … Kubernetes: restart a simple pod

CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application


Categories: Containers

Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale.  It supports multiple infrastructure platforms (EC2, VMware, OpenStack), and is able to standardize deployment, logging,  scaling, and routing in a way that is friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. In this series of articles, we will use the spring-music web application … CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application

CloudFoundry: Scaling the spring-music webapp, Part 3


Categories: Containers, Java

Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale.  This article is part of a series that explores different facets of a Cloud Foundry deployment using the spring-music project as an example. This article is Part 3 of  a series on Cloud Foundry concepts: Deploying the spring-music webapp, Part 1 Persisting … CloudFoundry: Scaling the spring-music webapp, Part 3