Autoscaling based on the custom metrics is one of the features that may convince you to run your Spring Boot application on Kubernetes. By default, horizontal pod autoscaling can scale…
Spring Boot Autoscaling on Kubernetes
Piotr's TechBlog
Java, Spring, Kotlin, microservices, Kubernetes, containers
Category: Cloud
Intro to OpenShift Service Mesh
OpenShift 4 has introduced official support for service mesh based on the Istio framework. This support is built on top of Maistra operator. Maistra is an opinionated distribution of Istio…
Development on Kubernetes: Choose a platform
An important step before you begin the implementation of microservices is to choose the Kubernetes cluster for development. In this article, I’m going to describe several available solutions. You can…
Development on Kubernetes with Okteto and Spring Boot
Okteto Platform seems to be an interesting alternative to the other more popular tools that simplify development on Kubernetes. In comparison to the tools like Skaffold or Draft, the idea…
Service mesh on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
Istio is currently the leading solution for building service mesh on Kubernetes. Thanks to Istio you can take control of a communication process between microservices. It also lets you secure…
Running Kotlin Microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine
In this article I’ll guide you through the steps required for building and running simple Kotlin microservice on Google Kubernetes Engine. We will use such and framework like Spring Boot,…
Deploying Spring Boot Application on OpenShift with Dekorate
More advanced deployments to Kubernetes or OpenShift are a bit troublesome for developers. In comparison to Kubernetes OpenShift provides S2I (Source-2-Image) mechanism, which may help reduce the time required for…
Service Mesh with Istio on Kubernetes in 5 steps
In this article, I'm going to show you some basic and more advanced samples that illustrate how to use Istio platform in order to provide communication between microservices deployed on…
Serverless on AWS with DynamoDB, SNS and CloudWatch
In one of my previous posts Serverless on AWS Lambda I presented an example of creating REST API based on AWS Lambda functions. However, we should keep in mind that…
Serverless on AWS Lambda
Preface Serverless is now one of the hottest trend in IT world. A more accurate name for it is Function as a Service (FaaS). Have any of you ever tried…