Kubernetes

Kubernetes: MetalLB in-depth

By working on a project for one of our customer, I have investigated how MetalLB works in details. This Kubernetes cluster is on-premises only and uses Nginx Ingress Controller for processing incoming L7 and L4 traffic. If you(…)

Cilium installation in Minikube using a multi-cluster environment

In this post I’ll share my experience with installing Cilium in Minikube on my Mac. It was not that hard but I faced an issue I had to troubleshoot. I’ll also show you how to create several Kubernetes clusters in(…)

Kubernetes Deployment Autoscaling using Memory & CPU

If you would like to implement autoscaling in your Kubernetes cluster then you are at the right place to get started, so read on. I’ve explored the implementation of the Kubernetes object called HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA for short) in order to(…)

Exploration of Calico in Minikube

If you are interested to learn Calico locally on your machine, it is possible to use it with Minikube. Minikube is a tool that sets up a Kubernetes environment on your local machine. It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux and(…)

Vim Tips & Tricks for the Kubernetes CKA exam

After being a regular reader of this blog for months, I’m thrilled to publish my first post! Vim is a very powerful editing tool to know in Linux and sometimes the only text editor available when connected to a machine(…)

Installing MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OKE using a MySQL Operator

During previous months, I've had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes. This is how it all began...

Do you know Rancher Desktop?

Today I stumbled across Rancher Desktop and thought I'll give it a try. If blogged about Rancher in the past but all those blogs talked about the full blown Rancher project. Rancher Desktop brings(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part I – Installation on Minikube

AWX is a web based GUI tool for managing Ansible playbooks. It is the open source upstream project of Red Hat Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) . As for Fedora and RHEL operating systems, the releases of(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 2

For my day 1 recap, please jump here. For the second day of that conference, I decided first to attend the keynote of Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Lots of annoucements as always covering various area and(…)

Kubernetes : two different OCI runtimes

Quick recap : in the previous episode, we have seen how to move from a Kubernetes cluster powered by Docker into a future-proof Kubernetes cluster, using containerd. Now let’s move on and fully enjoy the power of having(…)