Tag: Kubernetes
Microservices – any good?
As software solutions continue to evolve and grow in size and complexity, the effort required to manage, maintain and update them increases. To address this issue, a modular and manageable approach to software development is required. Microservices architecture provides a solution by breaking down applications into smaller, independent services that can be managed and deployed individually.…
Migration einer REST API in die Cloud
Im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Software Development für Cloud Computing” haben wir uns zum Ziel gesetzt, eine bereits bestehende REST API in die Cloud zu migrieren.
“Himbeer Tarte und harte Fakten”: Im Interview mit Ansible, k3s, Infrastructure as Code und Raspberry Pi
Why so serious? – Ein Artikel von Sarah Schwab und Aliena Leonhard im Rahmen der Vorlesung Systems Engineering and Management. Die Idee, ein fiktives Interview zu erstellen, entstammt daraus komplexe Sachverhalte unterhaltsam und verständlich zu machen. Wir sind heute zu Gast in der Tech-Sendung “Himbeer Tarte und harte Fakten”. Heute geht es unter Anderem um…
Applikationsinfrastruktur einer modernen Web-Anwendung
ein Artikel von Nicolas Wyderka, Niklas Schildhauer, Lucas Crämer und Jannik Smidt Projektbeschreibung In diesem Blogeintrag wird die Entwicklung der Applikation- und Infrastruktur des Studienprojekts sharetopia beschrieben. Als Teil der Vorlesung System Engineering and Management wurde besonders darauf geachtet, die Anwendung nach heutigen Best Practices zu entwickeln und dabei kosteneffizient zu agieren
Deploying Random Chat Application on AWS EC2 with Kubernetes
1. Introduction For the examination of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing”, I want to build a simple Random Chat Application. The idea of this application is based on the famous chat application called Omegle. Omegle is where people can meet random people in the world and can have a one-on-one chat. With Omegle…
KISS, DRY ‘n SOLID — Yet another Kubernetes System built with Ansible and observed with Metrics Server on arm64
This blog post shows how a plain Kubernetes cluster is automatically created and configured on three arm64 devices using an orchestration tool called Ansible. The main focus relies on Ansible; other components that set up and configure the cluster are Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, NGINX, Metrics Server and Kubernetes Dashboard. Individual steps are covered more or…
How to Scale Jitsi Meet
In today’s world, video conferencing is getting more and more important – be it for learning, business events or social interaction in general. Most people use one of the big players like Zoom or Microsoft Teams, which both have their share of privacy issues. However, there is an alternative approach: self-hosting open-source software like Jitsi…
Migrating from Heroku to Hetzner: Achieving Scalability with Docker, Kubernetes and Rancher
Dockerizing an existing application and deploying it in a Kubernetes Cluster via Rancher to achieve better scalability and cost minimization. Load Testing with Artillery, Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana and GitHub Actions for CI/CD were used in the process.
GeoDarts
by Jannik Igney [ji016] & Timothy Geiger [tg079] 1. Introduction For our course “Software development for cloud computing” we developed a little multiplayer browser game named “GeoDarts”. Goal of the game: Guess where cities are located in Germany on a map and be closer than your opponents. Goal of our project: We wanted to learn…
Autoscaling of Docker Containers in Google Kubernetes Engine
In this blog post we are taking a look at scaling possibilities within Kubernetes in a cloud environment. We are going to present and discuss various options that all have the same target: increase the availability of a service.