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Rancher autoscaler – Enable RKE2 node autoscaling

In Rancher, if you make use of node drivers to provision your RKE2 nodes, you can also make use of the cluster autoscaler. In this article, I will show you how simply you can configure the autoscaler for your cluster. Rancher official documentation: RancherRKE2 official documentation: RKE2 Cluster autoscaler Cluster autoscaler is a tool that automatically adjusts the size of… 

Swiss Cloud Native day landed at the Gurten!

On the 21st of September this year, we attended the Swiss Cloud Native Day. I was accompanied by two of my colleagues, Arnaud Berbier and Christoph Bernhard. This event took place for the third time, and this year, it landed in Bern at the Gurten. Surrounding the capital, Mount Gurten is reachable after 11 minutes of funicular. It’s definitely a… 

Kubernetes – Design HorizontalPodAutoscaler using Memory & CPU

So, you are interested to implement autoscaling in your Kubernetes cluster. I wrote a blog on that topic last year to help you see clearly what you can configure depending on the API version of HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA). With version 2 of HPA, you can use CPU and memory metrics as criteria for dynamically scaling up or down your application. Now… 

Kubernetes Deployment Autoscaling using Memory & CPU

If you would like to implement autoscaling in your Kubernetes cluster then you are at the right place to get started, so read on. I’ve explored the implementation of the Kubernetes object called HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA for short) in order to autoscale (up or down) a deployment according to the memory usage of its pods. The idea is to have a… 

First contact with OCI’s Autonomous Database

Introduction Benefits of going into the Oracle Cloud (OCI) are clear for most of us: no more datacenter and hardware to manage. But what else? On OCI, you can also decide to get rid of part of the DBA tasks (the less interesting ones, for sure). To create your Oracle database environment, you need to choose among these 3 solutions…