Magalix Kubernetes Patterns Series

Kubernetes is the core building block of cloud-native infrastructure, and over the last year we have covered Patterns in depth. We recently took a step back and aggregated all of our Patterns content ...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Feb 18, 2020

Cloud-Native Logging And Monitoring Pattern

  The Need For Observability in The Cloud-Native World Any system that runs without exposing the necessary information about its health, the status of the applications running inside it, and whether o...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Dec 23, 2019

Extending the Kubernetes Controller

  Kubernetes Controllers Overview At the core of Kubernetes itself, there is a large set of controllers. A controller ensures that a specific resource is (and remains) at the desired state dictated by...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Dec 4, 2019

The Configuration Template Pattern

  Injecting external configuration data to containerized application is a crucial requirement. You can seldom find an application that does not accept (or require) customization that alters its behavi...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Dec 2, 2019

Unchangeable Configuration Pattern

  When there is a need to inject external data to a Kubernetes Pod, we use environment variables, ConfigMaps, and Secrets. Each method has its own use-case scenario and best practice. However, you som...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Nov 27, 2019

Kubernetes Patterns : Environment Variables Configuration Pattern

Each and every application out there needs external configuration at some point. For example, the error verbosity level of a PHP script, the output format of a Python Flask API (XML or JSON), the cook...

• Mohamed Ahmed
  Nov 4, 2019