TL;DR: When deploying applications in containers, understanding the role and implications of the init process is critical. In this article, we’ll delve into how our application runs as Process ID #1 in a container, and what this means for our application’s signal handling and zombie process management.
TL;DR I set out to build the smallest container image that I could that was still able to do something useful. By taking advantage of multistage builds, the scratch base image, and a tiny assembly-based HTTP server, I was able to get it down to 6.32kB!
TL;DR: Setting up a Virtual Private Cloud (network), configuring firewall rules, and provisioning the Compute Engine virtual machine instances!
KTHW Lesson: 03-compute-resources.md
TL;DR: Setting up GCP account, and installing various software prerequisites (gcloud, tmux, cfssl and kubectl)
KTHW Lessons:
Is this the Matrix?
...TL;DR: This is the introduction to a series of posts in which I will work through Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes The Hard Way, explaining key concepts in detail along the way.
