Demystifying Inter-AZ Data Transfer Costs in K8s: Strategies for Savings

Throughout my six years of experience working with various K8s clusters across different environments, I’ve noticed a tendency to overlook Inter-AZ data transfer, resulting in significant expenses.

InterAZ (Inter-Availability Zone) data transfer costs within AWS EKS pertain to charges associated with transferring data between availability zones within the same AWS region. These costs fluctuate depending on the volume of data transferred and the region in which the EKS cluster is deployed.

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Firewall for Applications in Kubernetes

In this blog, we will look at a kubernetes feature which is intended to improve security for applications running in a cluster

In a kubernetes cluster, we can run many applications with multiple replicas for each application. By default, any pods can talk to any other pods running in the same cluster.

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Save Your Kubernetes Cluster From DoS

Kubernetes has become a market leader in container orchestration tools. According to the 2019 CNCF survey, “78% of respondents are using Kubernetes in production, a huge jump from 58% last year”

While containers have become the norm for deploying applications, kubernetes has become the norm for container management.

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Container From Scratch

This is my first blog and I want to share my learnings about containers

Container adoption to run enterprise applications softwares in production has been increasing drastically nowadays. And most of the container deployments are using docker. Docker became the defacto technology for running containerised applications. But what is docker built on? How it is containerising the applications? I will try to answer these questions in this article.

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