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Project Pacific diagram showing vSphere with native Kubernetes, application-focused management, and DevOps collaboration across a shared infrastructure platform.

The Rise of the VMWare Platform Reliability Engineer

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In the last few years as a VMWare person I have watched containers and Kubernetes go from people saying containers cannot replace virtual machines to now Kubernetes being integrated into vSphere.  Years ago, I thought containers were really cool but it lacked all the infrastructure features we relied on to run in enterprise environments.  Yet, … Explore: The Rise of the VMWare Platform Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes architecture diagram showing the control plane with API server, scheduler, controller manager, and etcd connected to worker nodes running kubelet, kube-proxy, and containers.

Kubernetes Components Overview

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I borrowed the above image from Kubernetes site. Let us begin with a high level overview of what Kubernetes is which will make explaining it’s components easier. Per kuberenetes.io, “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing … Explore: Kubernetes Components Overview

Kubernetes logo for kubectl Bash autocomplete.

Kubectl Bash Autocomplete

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I was speaking to someone the other day who is new to Kubernetes. While playing around with Kubectl commands they mentioned that there was no way to tab to autocomplete. This conversation inspired this quick and easy how to K8 article. From your terminal execute the following commands:sudo apt-get install bash-completionecho “source <(kubectl completion bash)” … Explore: Kubectl Bash Autocomplete