At the moment of writing this post we run 916 Prometheus instances with a total of around 4.9 billion time series.

cf-terraforming is a command line utility to facilitate terraforming your existing Cloudflare resources. It does this by using your account credentials to retrieve your configurations from the Cloudflare API and converting them to Terraform configurations that can be used with the Terraform Cloudflare provider.

This tool is ideal if you already have Cloudflare resources defined but want to start managing them via Terraform, and don't want to spend the time to manually write the Terraform configuration to describe them.

When working with containers in Kubernetes, it’s important to know what are the resources involved and how they are needed. Some processes will require more CPU or memory than others. Some are critical and should never be starved. 

Knowing that, we should configure our containers and Pods properly in order to get the best of both.

Troubleshooting Memory and CPU problems

Deployment previews - made popular by platforms like Vercel and Netlify - are not commonplace in microservice architectures. At Blueground, we brought deployment previews to K8s using ArgoCD. Well, it turned out to be so good, it is worth sharing.

An opinionated roadmap to become an SRE

The idea of interviewing for an SRE role can seem intimidating. These jobs are highly competitive in the current market and you need to demonstrate skills across a ton of technical areas.

This 6-week plan we've put together will help guide you through the process so you can really excel in those interviews. We'll spend each week focusing on building up your expertise in the key areas SREs need to know, like automation, monitoring, incident response, etc.

Data exchange between parent and child chart in helm

Learn how to use Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) to vertically scale services in Kubernetes automatically based on resource metrics.