IBM Build Labs helps IBM partners to scale their businesses and to reach new markets. I am very proud that our team has produced two reference architectures to accomplish this: Kubernetes Oper...

Over the last two Corona years I have spent some time with home improvements on weekends. A lot of fun! Unfortunately I didn’t document all steps, but the pictures below give an idea of the involv...

Many IBM partners want to understand how to scale their offerings to reach new markets. Technically this often translates to two technologies: Kubernetes Operators and SaaS (Software as a Service)....

The real power or Kubernetes operators are not day 1 tasks like the initial deployments, but the automation of day 2 operations. This article describes a sample operator that scales up an applicati...

Operators automate day 2 operations for Kubernetes based software. Operators need to know the state of their operands. One way to find out the state is to check metrics information stored in Promet...

Operators are a powerful technology to automate operations of software in Kubernetes clusters. This article describes scenarios when operators should be used and which value they provide. There ar...

When developing auto-pilot capabilities in Kubernetes operators, often CronJobs and Jobs are used to automate operations. This article describes how to implement such jobs with Golang. The complet...

Kubernetes operators allow the automation of day 2 operational tasks. A good example is the automatic archiving of data. This article describes how data from a simple database can be archived autom...

While there are plenty of examples how to write stateless applications on Kubernetes, there are relative few simple samples explaining how to write stateful applications. This article describes how...

Kubernetes supports running stateless and stateful workloads. This article describes the core concepts how to build and run a simple database on Kubernetes using an open source sample. The snippet...