Kubernetes is a complex beast, with lots of available drivers and plugins to handle different types of clusters. For example, to handle networking between pods in the cluster, you must install a CNI (Container Network Interface) plugin like Flannel, Calico, Weave Net, Cilium or other. To handle storage and volumes, you can install one of multiple CSI (Container Storage Interface) plugins like CephFS, GlusterFS, Google Cloud Storage etc. In this blog post we show how to use MicroK8s to simplify the installation process.
ReadLoki is a log database developed by Grafana Labs. In a previous blog post we have shown how to run Loki with docker-compose. In this blog post we will deploy Loki on a Kubernetes cluster, and we will use it to monitor the log of our pods.
ReadHelm is a template engine that can be used to deploy applications on a Kubernetes cluster. It allows to build a customized kubernetes resources definition, that can be deployed on your cluster. But helm has actually many other functionalities, to handle the whole process of building, distributing, installing and managing Kubernetes applications.
ReadIt's quite common now to run your web application behind a reverse proxy or a loadbalancer. This is typically the case if you are running your application in a Kubernetes cluster. In this case, the IP address that is logged by Apache is the IP of the proxy server, which is quite misleading and useless. To get Apache to log the real IP address of the clients, you will have to enable and configure the module remoteip.
ReadHaving your app running on Kubernetes is one important step. Now you have to make this killer app accessible from the Internet. And as usual with Kubernetes, there are a lot of possibilities Here are a few definitions and examples to help you understand your choices...
ReadIn this blog post series we will present how to deploy a Laravel app on Kubernetes. In this first tutorial, we start with a simple setup, and leave horizontal scaling and high-availability for a follow-up post...
ReadWhen multiple users must use the same kubernetes cluster, a good practice consists in segregating them in isolated namespaces. In this tutorial we show how to create a namespace, apply quotas so the user cannot exhaust the resources (memory and cpu) of the cluster, and create a dedicated kubectl user.
ReadIf you have a web application, with the appropriate Dockerfile, you can now go the next step and use GitLab to automatically deploy your application to a kubernetes cluster. Here is how...
Readkubernetes is a very powerful system, with a lot of available plugins to handle different situations. That's why tools like minikube exist that handle the whole configuration for you. In this blog post we show you how it works under the hood, and how to manually configure a kubernetes cluster.
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