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Test Your Kubernetes Cluster Conformance
You’ve been dabbling in the world of Kubernetes for a while now and have probably noticed there are a whole lot of vendors packaging their own version of Kubernetes. You might be having a fun time...
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Kubernetes – Taints and Tolerations
One of the best things about Kubernetes, is that I don’t have to think about which piece of hardware my container will run on when I deploy it. The Kubernetes scheduler can make that decision for me....
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Sysdig Secure 2.4 Announced
Today Sysdig announced a new update to their Cloud Native Visibility and Security Platform, with the release of Sysdig Secure 2.4. The new version of the Secure product includes some pretty nifty...
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Kubernetes – DaemonSets
DaemonSets can be a really useful tool for managing the health and operation of the pods within a Kubernetes cluster. In this post we’ll explore a use case for a DaemonSet, why we need them, and an...
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Kubernetes Visually – With VMware Octant
I don’t know about you, but I learn things best when I have a visual to reference. Many of my posts in this blog are purposefully built with visuals, not only because I think its helpful for the...
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Kubernetes – Desired State and Control Loops
If you’ve just gotten started with Kubernetes, you might be curious to know how the desired state is achieved? Think about it, you pass a YAML file to the API server and magically stuff happens. Not...
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A Change of Scenery
So Long AHEAD I have been fortunate to work for a fantastic company the past five and half years. While starting at AHEAD I had ambitions to be a top caliber VMware expert and work with people who...
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A Kind Way to Learn Kubernetes
I’m not going to lie to you, as of the time of this writing, maybe the biggest hurdle to learning Kubernetes is getting a cluster stood up. Right now there are a myriad of ways so stand up a cluster,...
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In programming, we sometime set breakpoints as a way of debugging our code. Maybe a small piece of our routine isn’t functioning optimally and we want the program to pause, part way through, so we can...
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Kubernetes – Network Policies
In the traditional server world, we’ve taken great lengths to ensure that we can micro-segment our servers instead of relying on a few select firewalls at strategically defined chokepoints. What do we...
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ClusterAPI Demystified
Deploying Kubernetes clusters may be the biggest hurdle in learning Kubernetes and one of the challenges in managing Kubernetes. ClusterAPI is a project designed to ease this burden and make the...
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Modularized Kubernetes Environments with Jenkins
There are a myraid of ways to deploy Kubernetes clusters these days. Kubernetes the Hard WayCluster APIKubeadmKubespraykops Those are just a few of the ways and I’m sure you’ll have a favorite. But...
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Kubernetes – Pod Security Policies
Securing and hardening our Kubernetes clusters is a must do activity. We need to remember that containers are still just processes running on the host machines. Sometimes these processes can get more...
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Jetstack Cert-Manager
One of my least favorite parts of computers is dealing with certificate creation. In fact, ya know those tweets about what you’d tweet if you were kidnapped and didn’t want to tip off the kidnapers?...
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Kubernetes – Jobs and CronJobs
Sometimes we need to run a container to do a specific task, and when its completed, we want it to quit. Many containers are deployed and continuously run, such as a web server. But other times we want...
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Deploy Kubernetes on vSphere
If you’re struggling to deploy Kubernetes (k8s) clusters, you’re not alone. There are a bunch of different ways to deploy Kubernetes and there are different settings depending on what cloud provider...
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Deploy Kubernetes on AWS
The way you deploy Kubernetes (k8s) on AWS will be similar to how it was done in a previous post on vSphere. You still setup nodes, you still deploy kubeadm, and kubectl but there are a few...
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Active Directory Authentication for Kubernetes Clusters
You’ve stood up your Kubernetes (k8s) cluster and are really looking forward to all of your coworkers deploying containers on it. How will you get everyone logged in? Creating local service accounts...
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Kubernetes HA on vSphere
If you’ve been on the operations side of the IT house, you know that one of your primary job functions is to ensure High Availability (HA) of production workloads. This blog post focuses on making...
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Kubernetes Logs for Troubleshooting
Sometimes things don’t go quite as we’ve planned. When that happens in a computer system, we turn to the logs to tell us what went wrong, and to give us some clues on either how to fix the issue, or...
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