Need help setting up a monitoring system? Here’s a complete, easy to deploy, dockerised monitoring system for a local development environment with email alerts.

The open source software Prometheus is an effective and reliable way of monitoring a software service like a web application. It will monitor your service and notify you when it goes down. In addition Prometheus also collects numerous kinds of metric data from the target for diagnostics and display purposes. Presented below is a convenient and reliable docker compose script with a complete ensemble of components useful for running a complete Prometheus monitoring system in a local environment for evaluation and integration testing purposes. Be operational with one docker command. Included in the compose design are containers for Prometheus, Prometheus Alertmanager, Mailhog (a test SMTP server) and some Python code acting as a target to be continuously monitored. Prometheus is also able to monitor code developed in Node, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, C++, C# and PHP to name a few [3]. Easily update the compose script to incorporate your particular service to be monitored.

Kubernetes has been around for almost 7 years as of 2022. While its ecosystem has evolved with a plethora of fantastic resources in the form of documentation (shameless self-plug, I know), blogposts, videos, podcasts, and courses, there still is a pretty high entry level barrier if you’re entirely new to it. A majority of the questions I’ve received are around the very first step to be taken while learning and what is a good way to get started. This is a compilation I wish I had when I got started and I hope you find it useful.

Monitor all changes in your Kubernetes(K8s) cluster & detects crashes in your running apps in real time

This blog post is a continuation of thisblog post where I attempted to give an introduction of Microservices and Docker containers. In this post we are going to delve deeper into Docker containers and get hands-on practice which should give a better understanding.

Every once in a while a new paradigm shift comes along that changes or brings another approach to the way software development is done. The “new” paradigm shift I will be talking about in this article is Containers.

Today I will explain some interesting topic ‘Knative’ — a serverless architecture and how we can utilize it with a simple SpringBoot application. I will not go for all the details about Knative but will focus on a few features of it and how we can simply utilize those features in our application.

The Postgres implementation on the target project is part of a larger DB architecture which includes elements of MongoDB and DynamoDB. It’s only fair that I use a tool that scales easily with AWS.

In this article, we will see the best practices for Docker host security based on 6 scenarios.

Today, every fast-growing business enterprise has to deploy new features of their app rapidly if they really want to survive in this competitive market.

If you’re playing around with multiple technology stacks or extending open-source applications and you don’t mind having to shift back and forth between different languages and frameworks, you might find containerizing your applications useful.