Feb 7 · 3 min read · Understanding Kubernetes Storage: emptyDir, hostPath, and PersistentVolumes When running applications in Kubernetes, managing data storage is a critical task. Unlike traditional servers, Pods in Kubernetes are ephemeral, meaning they can be created, ...
Join discussionFeb 5 · 10 min read · 👋 The "Node-Lock" Problem That "node-lock" is the biggest weakness of hostPath. If the node goes down or the Pod moves, the data is essentially "trapped" on the old node. To solve this, Kubernetes uses a system that decouples the storage from the no...
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Jan 5 · 19 min read · Welcome back! 👋 Day 60 of the 100 Days Cloud DevOps Challenge, and today we're mastering Kubernetes Persistent Volumes! This is stateful application foundation - providing durable storage that survives pod restarts and enables data persistence. Let'...
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Nov 2, 2025 · 4 min read · Kubernetes is fantastic for managing applications, especially those that are "stateless" – meaning they don't rely on storing data locally. But what about applications that do need to save information, like databases, message queues, or even just a s...
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Oct 9, 2025 · 9 min read · Have you ever built a brilliant time-series model, one that could forecast sales or predict stock prices, only to watch it fail in the real world? Well, this is a common frustration. Your model works perfectly on your machine, but the moment you depl...
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Sep 22, 2025 · 5 min read · As I progressed in my Kubernetes journey, I realized understanding each concept individually is one thing, and being able to apply them together in a real-world scenario is completely different. To bridge this gap i decided to build a multi-tier wen ...
Join discussionSep 16, 2025 · 8 min read · So far in this Kubernetes journey, we have focused on stateless workloads: Pods and Deployments manage compute Services manage networking ConfigMaps and Secrets manage configuration But real applications are rarely stateless. Databases, message ...
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Sep 14, 2025 · 10 min read · Kubernetes is a container orchestration (coordinating and automating the management) platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. As I have decided to learn Kubernetes, i found out the these are the basic...
Join discussionAug 20, 2025 · 4 min read · We worked with Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets. But what happens when your pods need to store and persist data? By default, when a pod is deleted or restarted, all data inside it is lost. That’s fine for stateless applications (like a ...
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