Kubernetes
research
Research documents on node instance types, managed services, ingress controllers, CNIs, etc.
Table of contents
Comparison of Kubernetes Ingress controllers
The research compares several Ingress controllers for Kubernetes.
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Choosing an instance type for a Kubernetes cluster
Research on the trade-offs when choosing an instance type for a Kubernetes cluster
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Comparison of Kubernetes managed services
The research compares Kubernetes managed services such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes (AKS).
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Comparison of service meshes
The research compares service meshes for Kubernetes such as Istio, Linkerd and Kuma.
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Contributing
If you spot a typo or an out-of-date spec, leave a comment on the spreadsheet or get in touch at research@learnk8s.io.
Are you interested in authoring open-source research?
If you wish to contribute with new comparison, charts, or any other research join the #research channel on Slack.
If you need some ideas, here's a shortlist:
- How does DigitalOcean Kubernetes compare with the rest of the Kubernetes managed services?
- How does IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service compare with the rest of the Kubernetes managed services?
- How does Alibaba's Container Service for Kubernetes compare with the rest of the Kubernetes managed services?
- What's the average CPU workload for Kubernetes Pods? How does it affect instance types?
What about code contributions?
More research can be unlocked if we can provision several clusters in different cloud providers and run tests.
If you have an idea on how to do that and want to contribute, let's chat on Slack or drop us an email.
Roadmap
The following topics of research are next:
- Analysis of container runtime interfaces (CRIs)
- Analysis of container networking interfaces (CNIs)
- Analysis of ingress controllers
- Analysis of API gateways
- Analysis of CI/CD tools
Research requests
If you have an idea for a research topic or you want to sponsor the research get in touch!