MY BLOGS

Exploring Rust by Building a Load Balancer: Insights from EchidnaLB

Load balancing plays a crucial role in the pursuit of fast, efficient web services. EchidnaLB — a layer 7 load balancer written in Rust — aims to address these needs with performance and reliability at its core.

Oct 27, 2024

Extending kubectl Utility With Plugins

In this blog, we'll see how kubectl plugins increase the usability of the CLI tool by adding custom CLI functionalities in a simple way.

Sep 15, 2022

How to Install Drone CI Server in Kubernetes

In this blog, we’ll set up a Drone CI server in Kubernetes using Helm. If you’re a beginner and are lost in the labyrinths of the documentation and GitHub READMEs, this simple blog will bootstrap you in just a few minutes.

Sep 04, 2022

GCP IAM Integration for LitmusChaos with Workload Identity

In this blog, we’ll take a look at how to do a GCP IAM integration for LitmusChaos using Workload Identity for executing the GCP experiments in a keyless manner when using the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the execution plane.

Jun 23, 2022

Why Did I Contribute to the LitmusChaos Project for Hacktoberfest 2021

For the eighth edition of Hacktoberfest, I chose to contribute to LitmusChaos, a CNCF sandboxed project for Cloud-Native Chaos Engineering. It was a month-long celebration of making Chaos Engineering simpler for all the SREs and Developers.

Nov 15, 2021

Chaos Engineering Made Simple

Chaos experiments are building blocks of a chaos workflow, which helps in building real-life failure scenarios in a simple way. LitmusChaos aids with the validation of every kind of Chaos Engineering practice with its vast number of Chaos Experiments.

Oct 27, 2021

GCP VM Disk Loss Experiment for LitmusChaos

A beginner-friendly blog on GCP VM Disk Loss experiment, which causes the detachment of a non-boot persistent storage disk from a GCP VM instance for a specified duration of time and later re-attaches the disk to its respective VM instance.

Jul 25, 2021

GCP VM Instance Stop Experiment for LitmusChaos

A beginner-friendly guide for the GCP VM Instance Stop chaos experiment for LitmusChaos. The experiment causes the shutdown of one or more GCP VM instances for a specified duration of time and later restarts them.

Jul 24, 2021

Getting Started with LitmusChaos 2.0 in Google Kubernetes Engine

This is a quick tutorial on how to get started with Litmus 2.0 in Google Kubernetes Engine. We’ll first set up our basic GKE cluster throughout this blog, then install Litmus 2.0 in the cluster, and finally, execute a simple chaos workflow using Litmus.

Jul 02, 2021

Cloud Native Chaos Engineering for Non-Kubernetes Targets

Cloud Native Chaos Engineering is not only for businesses operating on Kubernetes but also for the non-Kubernetes platforms for application deployment. Here we discuss our motivations and methods for inducing chaos in non-Kubernetes targets, using Litmus.

Jun 30, 2021

Part-2: A Beginner’s Practical Guide to Containerisation and Chaos Engineering with LitmusChaos 2.0

This blog is part two of a two-blog series that details how to get started with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes for deployment, and later how to perform chaos engineering using LitmusChaos 2.0.

Jun 01, 2021

Part-1: A Beginner's Practical Guide to Containerisation and Chaos Engineering with LitmusChaos 2.0

This blog is part one of a two-blog series that details how to get started with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes for deployment, and later how to perform chaos engineering using LitmusChaos 2.0.