20 BEST and the most popular reads for this year

Here are 20 best and the most popular reads for this year,hope you would love this compilation.As always, please feel free to leave your comment in case of any questions or additional inputs.

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#1.TOP 6 GUI tools for managing Docker environments

In this post,we take look at TOP 6 GUI tools for managing docker environments.Docker as we know,is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.Docker provides an API for interacting with the Docker daemon (Docker Engine API).The Docker API has allowed limitless options for interfacing with Docker engine, containers, and images to emerge from CLIs to desktop applications and web-based management tools. Everything the Docker client can do can be done with the API.These GUI tools extensively uses API to interface with Docker engine.

#2.Docker tutorial : Build Docker images using Jenkins

In this post,we are going to check how to configure Jenkins to build Docker Images based on a Dockerfile. This post helps details how you can use Docker within a CI/CD pipeline, using Images as a build artifact that can be promoted to different environments and finally production.

#3.12 Open Source IoT Platforms that you should know

The Internet of Things (IoT) has opened up a new, virtually inexhaustible source of technical innovations, which are equally valuable for a broad variety of industries. Applying smart connected devices, sensors, and gateways to control each part of the production process, manufacturing and infrastructure companies are dramatically increasing their operational efficiency. At the same time, the consumer tech market has exploded with abundance of smart products and spin-off cloud services that they brought to life.In this post,we look at some of the notable open source projects in IoT arena!

#4.How to deploy Angular 6 + Spring Boot app as single deployment unit ?

In this article, we are going to check how to deploy Angular 6 & Spring Boot REST application as single deployment unit  but however best practice is to separate Spring boot and Angular application so that we decouple the client code and server code, hence the application becomes highly scalable and manageable.But sometimes there could be scenarios like for ex. small application/teams it is advisable to package as single unit and deploy them.

#5.Kubeless tutorial – Kubernetes native serverless framework

kubeless is a Kubernetes-native serverless framework that lets you deploy small bits of code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure plumbing. It leverages Kubernetes resources to provide auto-scaling, API routing, monitoring, troubleshooting and more.

#6.Tutorial : Prometheus open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud.Prometheus primarily supports a pull-based HTTP model but it also supports alerts, it would be right fit to be part of your operational toolset. Prometheus works well for recording any purely numeric time series. It fits both machine-centric monitoring as well as monitoring of highly dynamic service-oriented architectures.

In a world of microservices, its support for multi-dimensional data collection and querying is a particular strength.Grafana has become the dashboard visualization tool of choice for Prometheus users and support for Grafana ships with the tool.

In this post,we are going to learn about Prometheus concepts,configuration & view metrics.

#7.Azure Serverless tutorial – On HTTP trigger store data in Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Functions lets you execute your code in a serverless environment without having to first create a VM or publish a web application.In Azure Functions, input and output bindings provide a declarative way to connect to external service data from your function.

In this tutorial, we are going check how to update the function we have created to have an output binding to store the data.Azure Functions allows to write code in response to events in Azure and other services, through triggers and bindings.

#8.Build real time Twitter dashboard using Azure LogicApps + Power BI

In this post,we are going to look how to build a real-time PowerBi dashboard using any of trending Twitter hashtags (ex.#Rajinikanth hashtag) here we are going to analyse social media sentiment post Rajini’s political debut, by analysing twitter hastags!

#9.5 easy steps to mine & earn Ethereum on Azure

Ethereum as we know is an open blockchain platform that lets anyone build and use decentralized applications that run on blockchain technology. Like Bitcoin, no one controls or owns Ethereum – it is an open-source project built by many people around the world. But unlike the Bitcoin protocol, Ethereum was designed to be adaptable and flexible.In this post,we will check the steps of how to setup mining in Azure.

#10.TOP 20 Microservices Design Patterns

Microservices  is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities.Applications built as a set of modular components are easier to understand, easier to test, and most importantly easier to maintain over the life of the application. It enables organizations to achieve much higher agility and be able to vastly improve the time it takes to get working improvements to production. The microservice architecture enables the continuous delivery/deployment of large, complex applications. It also enables an organization to evolve its technology stack.

In this post,we look at some of the key micoservices design patterns.

#11.Kubernetes Tutorial : Distributed tracing with Jaeger

Jaeger is a distributed tracing system released as open source by Uber Technologies. Like Dapper or ZipKin,it is used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems.In this post, we are going look at how to deploy Jaeger on to kubernetes cluster.

This quickstart assumes a basic understanding of Kubernetes concepts, please refer earlier posts for understanding on Kubernetes & how to create,deploy & rollout updatesto the cluster.

#12.Kubernetes tutorial – Create deployments using YAML file

This is in continuation on Kubernetes article series.In the last post, we have learnt how to create & deploy the app to the Kubernetes cluster.Now in this post,we are going to learn how to create application deployment using yaml file also we can check on how to create services to control how application communicates.

#13.8 BEST Docker Security Tools

In this post we checkout BEST Docker Security Tools.

#14.Docker tutorial – Build Docker image for your Java application

In this post, we are going to take look at how to build Docker image for Java application

• Step #1. Setup Docker
• Step #2. Create Dockerfile for our container
• Step #3. Build Docker Image
• Step #4. Test Docker Image
• Step #5. Build Docker container for Maven/Gradle based Java application
• Step #6. Build Docker container for Spring MVC based Java application

#15.Docker tutorial – Build Docker image for your Angular 6 application

In this post, we are going to take look at how to build Docker image for Angular application.

• Step #1. Setup Docker
• Step #2. Create Dockerfile for our container
• Step #3. Build Docker Image
• Step #4. Test Docker Image
• Step #5. Ngnix Dockerfile

#16.Kubernetes tutorial – Create Kubernetes cluster on AWS with kops

This is in continuation on Kubernetes article series.In the earlier posts, we have seen how to create & deploy simple cluster.Now in this post,we are going to look at how to provision Kubernetes cluster using kops utility.kops (Kubernetes Operations) helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.

For more posts on Kubernetes,check out here &here.

#17.Use Google cAdvisor for monitoring your containers + Docker tutorial

If you’re looking for tool to understand the resource usage and performance characteristics of the running containers then cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is the perfect tool that provides container metrics.It is a running daemon that collects, aggregates, processes, and exports information about running containers. Specifically, for each container it keeps resource isolation parameters, historical resource usage, histograms of complete historical resource usage and network statistics. 

#18.Serverless Comparison : AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions vs. Google Functions

Serverless allows developers to build and run applications and services without thinking about the servers actually running the code. In this post,We will compare popular cloud provider’s support for Serverless.

#19.Tutorial : Helm package manager for Kubernetes

Helm is basically package manager that helps you manage Kubernetes applications.The set of Kubernetes resources that together define an application is packaged as charts.You can think of charts as packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.Charts helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.These charts can describe a single resource, such as a Redis pod, or a full stack of a web application: HTTP servers, databases and caches.

In this post,we are going to look at what is helm & how to install sample chart and configure the same.

#20.Kubernetes tutorial – Create simple cluster & Deploy app

In the last post, we have looked at the Introduction & key concepts of Kubernetes platform.Now in this post,we are going to create new Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. Minikube is a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node. Minikube is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The Minikube CLI provides basic bootstrapping operations for working with your cluster, including start, stop, status, and delete.Also we are going to use kubectl utility to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes. Also,you can inspect cluster resources; create, delete, and update components; and look at new cluster.

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