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I have been meaning to get to this little project for a while, and here we are. You can find a link to the site below, I like this initial in your face message though, this tells me that this tool is going to tell me something about my Kubernetes cluster that I didn’t know, for the record I am going to download and run this on my home lab cluster and see what we get. This is not a production cluster! So what is it… KubeBuddy powered by KubeDeck helps you monitor, analyze, and report on your Kubernetes environments with ease. Whether you’re tracking cluster health,Read More →

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As with most Mondays, we start with a job and task in mind but quickly as we begin catching up on news from the weekend, we find some interesting rabbit holes to investigate. This Monday morning was no different but I also do not usually have the urge to share such information. As you all know AI is everywhere, I mean if you do not have a chatbot can you even spell AI!? My morning started with reading up on a tool called ‘kubectl-cli’ from Google – https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai I had seen others doing similar things so was intrigued when Google come out with a project,Read More →

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This has been on my product bucket list for a while, in fact this initial feature request went in on the 9th September 2021. My reasons then were not sales orientated, I was seeing the Kubernetes community using the trusty Raspberry PIs as part of a Kubernetes cluster at home. By supporting in my eyes this architecture it would have opened the door to the home users, technologists and community to having a trusted way to protect the learning environment at home. Here we are 3 years on and we got the support. I have a single node k3s cluster running on a single RaspberryRead More →

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*As the title suggests in this post we are going to be talking about the upstream project KubeVirt, KubeVirt as a standalone project release and the protection of these VMs is not supported. It is only today supported for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation (OCP-V) and Harvester from SUSE. This is based on all the varying hardware KubeVirt can be deployed on. With that caveat out of the way in a home lab, we are able to tinker around with whatever we want. I am also clarifying that I am using the 5 nodes that we have available for the community to protect these virtual machines.Read 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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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 →