A few months ago I wrote an article about Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller. That article is actually the second most popular post on this blog. It's focused on using Kubernetes ingress for on-premises deployments. But, most of the users run Kubernetes on AWS and other public cloud providers. The problem is that for each service with LoadBalancer type, AWS will create the new ELB. And that can be pricey. With Kubernetes ingress you will need only one. How Does it ...
Running a production Kubernetes cluster is not that easy. Also, unless you use cloud resources smart, you will be spending much money. You only want to use resources that are needed. When you deploy Kubernetes cluster on AWS, you define min and max number of instances per autoscaling group. You want to watch Kubernetes cluster and on insufficient resources to scale up. Also to scale down when you have underutilized nodes. The piece of software that will help you with ...
The kube-scheduler is a component responsible for scheduling in Kubernetes. But, sometimes pods can end up on the wrong node due to Kubernetes dynamic nature. You could be editing existing resources, to add node affinity or (anti) pod affinity, or you have more load on some servers and some are running almost on idle. Once the pod is running kube-scheduler will not try to reschedule it again. Depending on the environment you might have a lot of moving parts. In ...
Last week I wrote about getting Kubernetes cluster metrics with Prometheus. Metrics are only one part of the story. Logs are essential as well, and luckily we have a great set of tools that will help us to create simple and easy logging solution. In this post, I will show you how to start monitoring Kubernetes logs in 5 minutes with EFK stack (Elasticsearch, Fluent Bit, and Kibana) deployed with Helm and Elasticsearch operator. Previous post Just blogged: Get #Kubernetes ...
To have a Kubernetes cluster up and running is pretty easy these days. However, when you start to use it and deploy some applications, you might expect some issues over time. Kubernetes being a distributed system is not easy to troubleshoot. You need a proper monitoring solution, and because the Prometheus is CNCF project as Kubernetes, it is probably the best fit. In this post, I will show you how to get the Prometheus running and start monitoring your Kubernetes ...
I get many questions about Kubernetes and persistence. Of course, persistence is essential for stateful apps. We often say that for stateful apps you need to use StatefulSet and for stateless apps a Deployment. It doesn't mean that you couldn't run stateful apps using deployments with persistent volumes. For example, the official MySQL Helm chart is using deployment. So, it can be done, but users get confused about this. What is the deal? When should you use deployment and when ...
I like to say that continuous delivery or CD is the most important part of Cloud Native. There are so much great tools out there and you need to pick up the right ones. A few weeks ago I was writing almost about the same topic, only with Jenkins. While the Jenkins is the most used CI/CD tool, not every team is happy with it. Jenkins has a huge number of plugins and the great set of features, but ...
I wrote about Rook storage a few weeks ago, but maybe you already have Ceph cluster running in your datacenter. Or you prefer to use Ceph on separate nodes and without Kubernetes. Also, currently Rook is alpha software and not ready for production use. I would assume that this large Ceph cluster if you have one, is also used for other services outside Kubernetes. Whatever is the case it is simple to connect Ceph and Kubernetes together to provision persistent ...
The previous post about Rook got great attention from the community. But, I also got a lot of questions about persistence on Kubernetes in general. Among many questions, there were a few about resizing persistent volume claims or PVCs. If you are using on-premises storage solutions like Ceph (Rook) this is not the big issue. The part of the reason is that when you create a volume in Ceph, let's say a 100GB, this space is not actually allocated. But, ...
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Rook: Cloud Native On-Premises Persistent Storage for Kubernetes on Kubernetes
Software-defined storage is not something new. One of the most popular is Ceph. I started with Ceph five years ago because I was looking into unified storage for OpenStack. There are many other solutions, but I like the Ceph because it is all in one solution for the block, object and file storage, and it is opensource. Inktank the company behind Ceph is later acquired by RedHat, but that made things even better. If you already have Ceph cluster running, ...
Continuous integration and delivery or CI/CD is the most crucial part of DevOps, and cloud-native too. CI/CD connects all the bits. With Kubernetes cluster deploying Jenkins server is easy. Of course thanks to Helm. The hard part is creating pipeline which builds, deploys and test your software. The focus of this post is understanding the Jenkins pipeline and what is happening in the background when running on Kubernetes. Deploy Jenkins on Kubernetes Deploying Jenkins is the easy part ...
I'm writing a lot of about Kubernetes for a few months already. I like the idea of cloud-native applications. There are a lot of easily installable applications for Kubernetes out there. One of the biggest resources of "Kube ready" applications is Kubeapps Hub. The list keeps growing really fast. So, all this is a good thing. But, there is also a small problem. People run some commands that they don't quite understand. It can be a copy/paste ...