With the dramatically increasing demand for container orchestration specifically Kubernetes, demand to template K8S manifests(Json/Yaml) also came to light. To handle increasing manifests, new CRDs(Custom resource definition), etc… it became obvious that we need a package manager somewhat like yum, apt, etc… However, the nature of Kubernetes manifest is very different than what one used to have with Yum and Apt. These manifests required a lot of templates which is now supported by Helm, a tool written in GoLang with custom helm functions and pipelines. Neutral background on templating Templating has been a driver for configuration management for a long time. While it may seem trivial for users coming from Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc…, it is not. Once one moves to Kubernetes, the very first realization is hard declarative approach that Kubernetes follows. It is difficult to make generic templating with declarative form since each application may have some unique feature and r...
istio.md Istio lets you connect, secure, control, and observe services. At a high level, Istio helps reduce the complexity of these deployments, and eases the strain on your development teams. It is a completely open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. It is also a platform, including APIs that let it integrate into any logging platform, or telemetry or policy system. Istio’s diverse feature set lets you successfully, and efficiently, run a distributed microservice architecture, and provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices. In context of Vuclip istio allows us to reduce the code and environment configurations while keeping the similar or more feature sets at our disposal. Since istio is designed to bridge the gap for both development teams and SRE, it is essential to see and visualize that in practice. Istio will affect us in our ability to connect , secure(HTTPs TLS, mtls [Phase-2]), control(external comm...