VMWare has rebranded itself as a “cloud company” and is actively throwing around buzzwords such as Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and Tanzu Kubernetes. Is there any substance underneath VMWare’s new clothes? Let’s find out.

This is a short visual guide, using UML Activity diagrams, to gain insight into the Kubernetes Probe and Deployment life cycles.

In the process of configuring a StatefulSet for Memcached, I’ve discovered that my biggest hurdle had to do with my inability to grasp the exact order of events that take place in a Pod’s life cycle.