Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 100
Loss of 2 masters, Optimize startup time using VolumeSnapshots, 5 solutions for multi-cluster, Unified Helm, Argo Events: conditional triggers
9 Oct 2024
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Articles
Rescue my OpenShift cluster from loss of 2 masters
Haozhao
A Kubernetes cluster suffered a hardware failure, losing two master nodes and etcd data.
In this case study, you will learn how the author recovered without an etcd backup.
Mesh your Kubernetes cluster to the rest of your network with the Tailscale Kubernetes operator
Irbe Krumina
This article explains how to integrate Kubernetes clusters with broader network environments.
You'll learn to expose Kubernetes services to external networks, enable secure access to the control plane, and connect services across different clusters and cloud providers.
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Optimize Kubernetes pods’ startup time using VolumeSnapshots
Maya Aravot
Learn how the team at Riskified optimized their pods' startup time by leveraging VolumeSnapshots, achieving an 83% improvement from 37 seconds.
You'll discover how to manage snapshot creation, retention, and restoration.
5 solutions for multi-cluster communication in Kubernetes
This article compares 5 solutions for multi-cluster communication in Kubernetes: underlay networks, overlay CNIs, Submariner, Skupper, and KubeSlice.
Streamlining Microservices Management: A Unified Helm Chart Approach
Calin Florescu
Learn how to simplify microservices management by adopting a unified Helm chart approach.
This approach enables you to make changes across multiple microservices from a single location, reducing the complexity of working with multiple repositories.
Argo Events : conditional triggers
Chuk-Munn Lee
This article explores the use of Argo Events for conditional triggers, including an example of exposing a Service with Gateway API and routing gRPC, TCP, and UDP traffic.
You will also learn about auto-deploying HTTPRoutes from Services.
Articles worth checking out:
Tailscale
Dramatically simplify your Kubernetes networking needs with Tailscale.
Use Tailscale to secure access to your Kubernetes control plane and to provide access to services and pods in your Kubernetes cluster to trusted users.
Tutorials
Tailscale
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Tailscale Operator to configure ingress to Kubernetes services, egress to a tailnet, and secure access to the cluster control plane (kube-apiserver).
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Automated Kubernetes Gateway certificates management with Cert Manager
Addo Zhang
This tutorial explores how to use cert-manager to manage Kubernetes Gateway certificates automatically.
Using Pi-Hole as your external-dns provider in Kubernetes
Rob Rakaric
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure Pi-Hole as an external DNS provider in Kubernetes.
GitHub Action Runners on GKE with DinD-rootless
Will Sulzer
This tutorial explains deploying GitHub Action Runners on GKE with Helm, including setting up Docker-in-Docker in rootless mode.
It covers configuring GKE, deploying a workflow to build a Docker image on GitHub Actions, and monitoring the action logs.
Kubernetes hardware-accelerated home streamer
Zac Pollack
Learn how to set up a Kubernetes cluster for streaming with hardware-accelerated capabilities using a GPU using Helm, k3s, and Jellyfin,
Kubernetes jobs
Solution Architect with NVIDIA
Salary: $148K to $230K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, Data center, Python, C++
Software Engineer with Invitro Capital
Salary: $42K to $54K a year
Location: remote from Mexico
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Python, Cassandra, Mongo, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Platform Engineer with Veeam Software
Salary: $201K to $287.1K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, C++, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search
Software Engineer with Modern Treasury
Salary: $200K to $360K a year
Location: remote from the United States
Tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Python
Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →
Code & tools
Node Feature Discovery: add-on
Node Feature Discovery is a Kubernetes add-on for detecting hardware features and system configuration.
It detects hardware features available on each node in a Kubernetes cluster and advertises those features using node labels.
mcronce
oci-registry is a tool that implements the OCI Registry spec with filesystem and S3 storage back-ends.
kubectx: switch between clusters and namespaces
kubectx is a tool to switch between contexts (clusters) on kubectl faster.
kubens is a tool to switch between Kubernetes namespaces (and configure them for kubectl) easily.
Kubero is a fully self-hosted Internal Developer Platform that brings Heroku's workflows to your Kubernetes cluster.
It enables you to deploy your applications with a few clicks, has a built-in CI/CD pipeline, and supports multiple staging environments.
rancher
A Kubernetes in Kubernetes tool, k3k provides a way to run multiple embedded isolated k3s clusters on your kubernetes cluster.
Other interesting projects:
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— Dan
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