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This week saw a lot of useful procrastination mostly around different tools to make your day-to-day experience with Kubernetes that little more easier or possibly more exciting. I put together this twitter thread but as with anything on twitter the life span of that thread is gone within minutes so I wanted to document my Kubernetes tips and tricks here as well. https://twitter.com/MichaelCade1/status/1427928444629831680?s=20 Tips for Kubernetes: 1 – kubectl explain Have you been looking for the man pages for Kubernetes? (man, page is short for manual page) or could also be classed as documentation. Get documentation of various resources. For instance, pods, nodes, services, etc.Read More →

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Introduction – Why My goal for this project was to find a way to deploy a new cluster in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google. I am constantly spinning up and down Kubernetes clusters and running through scenarios for content creation and just learning scenarios. I have written several blogs talking about creating managed Kubernetes clusters in the three big clouds and some other options more recently. But I wanted to go one step further and wanted to automate the creation and removal of these environments for demo purposes. The goal is to make it simple to not only create these clusters using Terraform from HashicorpRead More →

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In the last post we focused on using inlets to create a WebSocket to provide a secure public endpoint for the Kubernetes API and port 8080 for Kasten K10 that are otherwise not publicly reachable. In this post we are going to concentrate on the Kasten K10 and multi cluster configuration. I am going to share a great article talking about Kasten multi-cluster from Dean Lewis. Deploying K10 Deploying Kasten K10 is a simple helm chart deployment that I covered in a post a few months back here. ➜ kubectl create ns kasten-io namespace/kasten-io created ➜ helm install k10 kasten/k10 –namespace=kasten-io Accessing K10 For theRead More →

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Let’s first start by defining the “Dark” mentioned in the title. This could relate to a cluster that you have that needs to have minimum to no access from the internet or it could also be a home Kubernetes cluster, the example I will be using in this post will be a K3S cluster deployed in my home network, I do not have a static IP address with my ISP and I would like others to be able to connect to my cluster for collaboration or something that we will get to around data management later. What is the problem? How do you access darkRead More →

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We have created an open community forum where we can discuss all things Kubernetes, Data Management, Kasten and DevOps topics in one place where anyone can contribute, learn, or share. You will see the why we decided on this route vs the what seems to be the defacto now to create a discord or slack channel at the end of the post. Basically, my ask is would love to see you all in there, sharing your experiences and asking your questions. https://community.veeam.com/groups/kubernetes-korner-90 Welcome! I wanted to start by welcoming everyone to our new Kubernetes Korner where we can discuss all things cloud-native, Kubernetes and DevOps.Read More →

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I have been meaning to jump in here for a while and finally today I got the chance, and it was super quick to get things up and running. Especially when you get the £250 free credits as well! For a playground for learning this is a great place to get started, quick deployment. This post is going to walk through pretty much from step 1 when you sign in for the first time and how you can easily deploy a Kubernetes cluster from both the UI portal and the Civo CLI. When you sign up for your CIVO account and your free $250 creditRead More →

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In the last post we covered the fundamentals at a very high level on why you should be considering adding a backup action into your GitOps workflows, we also deployed ArgoCD into our Kubernetes cluster. In this post we are going to walkthrough a scenario on why and how having that backupaction within in your process ensures that when mistakes happen (and they will) your data is protected and can be recovered easily. This walkthrough assumes that you have Kasten K10 deployed within your Kubernetes Cluster to perform these steps. More details on this can be found at https://docs.kasten.io/latest/index.html This is a very simple exampleRead More →

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Something I started at the beginning of 2021 was setting aside an hour a day during the workday for learning. This tweet and a few others over the last few months then prompted me to write this post, to share my reasoning and why this is a good idea. “Where do you make time to learn new things?” There seems to be a common misconception that for you to learn new things it must be out of work hours! Let’s address this straight away, if you are learning a topic that will benefit your day to day job then any boss (a good boss orRead More →

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Last week at the Kasten booth at KubeCon 2021 EU I gave a 30-minute session on “Incorporating data management into your continuous deployment workflows and GitOps model” the TLDR was that with Kasten K10 we can use BackupActions and hooks from your favourite CD tool to make sure that with any configuration change you are also going to take a backup of your configuration before the change but most importantly the data will also be grabbed. This will become more apparent and more useful when you are leveraging ConfgMaps to interact with data that is being consumed and added by an external group of peopleRead More →

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Ransomware is a threat we hear about daily it seems and it is hitting every sector, I have actually been saying that everyone should be concerned here, it is just a matter of time before you are attacked and have to face the Ransomware story. This post is all about highlighting how to prevent your cloud workloads from being easily exposed as well as talking briefly about the remediation and how to get back up on your feet. In a previous post, I posted about Pac-Man as a mission-critical application, I have decided that this is a great way to show off the stateful approachRead More →