25 november 2020 K9s — the powerful terminal UI for Kubernetes

Have you already heard about K9s? It is a terminal-based UI to manage Kubernetes clusters that aims to simplify navigating, observing, and managing your applications in K8s. K9s continuously monitors…

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19 november 2020 Installing fully-fledged vanilla Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, we will deploy on Raspberry Pi (or other ARM devices) a vanilla Kubernetes cluster with essential tools such as Ingress, Prometheus, Grafana, and cert-manager.

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21 october 2020 What GitOps actually is and what it is not

GitOps is a modern way to make better IaC for delivering apps in Kubernetes. It is all about determinism, idempotence, automation, observability… and many other exciting features! However, are you…

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5 october 2020 Overcoming the challenges of cleaning up container images with werf

How to store the container images you need and get rid of all others in your container registry? Here is our journey on understanding and solving this problem in a universal way using werf tool.

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11 september 2020 Go? Bash! Meet the shell-operator

Text summary of a recent KubeCon'20 talk about shell-operator and how it can simplify creating Kubernetes operators making the life of system administrators easier.

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13 august 2020 Ready-to-use commands and tips for kubectl

Our collection of kubectl commands, their combinations and tips to simplify performing regular tasks when you operate a Kubernetes cluster.

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4 august 2020 Recent troubleshooting cases from our SREs, part 2

Our stories include a poorly prepared Kafka in Docker, an unexpected network issue for ZooKeeper & ClickHouse, a faulty hardware in the data center, and the PgSQL database optimization.

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24 jule 2020 Modifying etcd data of your Kubernetes directly (without K8s API)

Sometimes you might need to make changes directly in etcd data of your Kubernetes cluster. Here is our experience in solving network issues using an enhanced version of etcdhelper tool.

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23 jule 2020 Grafana statusmap panel 0.3.0 and what it brings

Grafana statusmap panel plugin helps to visualize status of multiple objects over time. It's very useful for monitoring needs in your DevOps routines. What are the new features introduced with its v0.3.0 release? What is the project's roadmap?

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17 jule 2020 Kubernetes operators made easy with shell-operator: project status & news

Shell-operator allows you to make Kubernetes operators using scripts in Bash, Python, etc. (or other binaries): fast, easy and correct way. Here you will find last news from this Open Source project.

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