https://dplabs.tech/tags/kubernetes/ Recent content in Kubernetes on dplabs — Software Engineering & Technology Consultancy Hugo en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/immutable-infrastructure/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/immutable-infrastructure/ <p>Two schools of thought in infrastructure management have different answers to the same question: when the configuration of a server needs to change, what do you do?</p> <p><strong>Configuration management</strong> answer: connect to the server and change it. Tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef automate this process.</p> <p><strong>Immutable infrastructure</strong> answer: build a new server with the desired configuration, route traffic to it, terminate the old one. The server itself is never modified after provisioning.</p> https://dplabs.tech/blog/deployment-strategies/ Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/deployment-strategies/ <p>A deployment strategy is not just a technical implementation detail. It determines how much risk you take with each release, how quickly you can recover from problems, and what infrastructure you need to support it. Choosing without understanding the trade-offs is choosing accidentally.</p> <h2 id="rolling-deployments-the-default">Rolling Deployments: The Default</h2> <p>Rolling deployments incrementally replace old instances with new ones. At any point during the deployment, both old and new versions are running simultaneously.</p>