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2023


MetalLB, a bare metal Load Balancer for Kubernetes

·5 mins
Running Kubernetes on bare metal can be challenging on several aspects. One of those is the use of load balancers. MetalLB is a bare metal load balancer that uses ARP to dynamically create new load balancers using dedicated internal IP addresses.

2019


Deploy a secure instance of Elasticsearch on Kubernetes

·5 mins
It’s easy to deploy Elasticsearch on Kubernetes. You get yourself a copy of the Elastic Helm Charts and you run helm install. Job well done… or not? The default Elasticsearch configuration doesn’t enable any encryption or security mechanism, that doesn’t sound really safe! In this blog post, I’ll explain how you secure your Elasticsearch instance by enabling encryption (SSL transport and HTTP over SSL) and native authentication.

Deploy Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE)

·6 mins
In this blog post, I’ll explain how you deploy a brand new Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE). Rancher Kubernetes Engine doesn’t include the Rancher management application itself and will deploy a vanilla Kubernetes Cluster for you, the exact same thing as kubeadm can do for you but much more simple!

2018


Use Kubernetes Certificate Manager to automatically add SSL/TLS certificates to ingresses

·3 mins
Kubernetes Certificate Manager (cert-manager) is a native Kubernetes controller helping you to issue certificates from a variety of sources, such as Let’s Encrypt, HashiCorp Valut, a signing keypair and self-signed. The Certificate Manager ensures certificates are valid and up-to-date, and attempt to renew certificates at a configured time before expiry.

GitLab Kubernetes Integration with RBAC enabled

·2 mins
Officially, GitLab doesn’t support RBAC enabled Kubernetes clusters yet, but with some manual configuration, it is possible to integrate your Kubernetes cluster into Gitlab with RBAC enabled.

Extend Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

·2 mins
In Kubernetes it is possible to use Persistent Volumes to add persistent storage to your Docker containers. When creating a Persistent Volume (Claim) you have to configure a storage type and storage capacity. When your application gets successful and your storage exceeds the limits, you have to extend the volume or create a new persistent volume. The latter isn’t a feasible solution in a production environment, but extending a persistent volume isn’t supported out-of-the-box in Kubernetes. There is a solution though! Extending the volume outside Kubernetes!

2017


Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack - Part 1

·5 mins
The last few weeks I’m working with Kubernetes and OpenStack. It’s a steep learning curve to get a production-ready Kubernetes Cluster running on OpenStack, especially because I didn’t want to use the available ready-to-use tools. In the next few blog posts, I want to share my experience how to run Kubernetes on an OpenStack platform.