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Health Checks, Readiness Probe and Pod State
When your application is in production mode, you want to configure health checks to know if something goes wrong. To know when there is a malfunction or an issue, you can make your deployments more robust by creating custom health checks.
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May 06, 2022

Building a Developer Control Plane on CTO.ai
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration tool designed to automate, deploy, scale, and operate application containers. Kubernetes lets you run distributed systems resiliently, with scaling and failover for your application. It acts as a container orchestrator that helps ensure each container is where it’s supposed to be and that the containers can work together. There are a lot of applications that use the monolithic architecture; they put all the functionality like transactions an
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April 21, 2022

How do Volumes work in Kubernetes
Running Applications with State A volume is a separate object defined within the content of your Kubernetes pod. The volume is associated with the pod but mounted into a container at a particular path. A volume can also be mounted into another container within that pod at a different path. In Kubernetes, there’s a wide variety of different volume implementations; like the temporary volume associated with a Pod called empty Dir, where the lifespan of the volume is associated with the pod and the
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March 22, 2022
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