Apigee enables you to create APIs and share them with other developers who might be part of your organization or who might be external, or even unknown. API teams using Apigee achieve this by combining APIs into “API products” that offer different capabilities and levels of service. …

Monitor Kafka with Prometheus + Grafana Monitoring Kafka Yolean Kafka is one of the simplest Kubernetes container-based Kafka solution in the market to get started with. Yolean Kafka JMX Metrics Prometheus Exporter This following adds a sidecar to the broker pods that exports selected JMX metrics over HTTP in a format that Prometheus understands. To add a container…

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Hashicorp Vault on GKE Best Practices Isolate the installation with single tenancy. You can host Vault on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Compute Engine, but it should be completely isolated in its own project, cluster, and/or private VPC/subnet. If running on Compute Engine, Vault should be the only main process running on a machine. This reduces the risk that another process running…

A simple solution to an annoying GCE Docker Issue — Issue Kubernetes schedules a pod at node level (GCE) and kubelet on node uses Docker to download an image and run it. Docker uses system DNS to resolve the address of a registry, because it works right on the GCE node, not in the Kubernetes. …

Microservices are a modular architecture approach that is driven by domain driven design principles and organization’s communication structure. Characteristics Size The size of service matters. Microservices meant to be “micro” in nature. Modularization Microservices are developed in a modular fashion. Teams develop software in modules. …