As of today, there is no single answer to the question "How do I deploy my workload?". Helm Chart? A set of yaml files? Templated yaml files?
And not just user-facing apps - how do I consistently deploy ingress controllers? K8s cluster user auth services? Diagnostics, metrics, and so forth …
read moreNow that Vsphere 7u1 is out (yay!), you, too, can run Vsphere with Kubernetes without NSX-T. But for the home lab of a former developer, what does that look like? We have our fancy Ubiquiti networking but we're not sure how to make the right networks. We also don't …
read moreYou got a Kubernetes! Your Vsphere team has given you access to a Vsphere Workload Management Namespace, which means you can start making clusters! But how, exactly? Assuming they didn't give you enough directions, how do you from 'access' to 'I have a Kubernetes workload!' ?
At a high …
read moreYou may occasionally find that a game you made in Roblox has been hijacked and immediately teleports you to another game when you start. This is a total bummer as it takes away all the time you spent creating the game and can leave you feeling helpless.
Bottom line …
read moreWe want to deploy a simple (read: development) instance of MongoDB in our Kubernetes cluster with as little work as possible. Additionally, we'd like to make that MongoDB deployment available to services outside the k8s cluster but not outside our VPC
Use Bitnami's MongoDB helm chart to deploy …
read moreNote: This will be light on details. The exact commands to run, unfortunately, are an exercise left to the reader. This post is more of a tactical guideline to jog your memory. The author regrets the lack of detail.
Creating your k8s clusters is just the first step. How …
read moreWe have Jenkins. We also have a need to build and deploy a typical application (in this case, a Java application). We need a way to go from "I just installed Jenkins" to "We have a Jenkins pipeline that can build and deploy our code".
We will install …
read moreIt was recently brought to my attention that this problem is probably solved by using certstrap, courtesty of Square. If you're in a hurry, I'd encourage you to go and give that a try first.
Link: https://github.com/square/certstrap
I'm leaving the below for posterity and pedagogical …
read moreAs of this writing, the docs for deploying PCF on Amazon using Terraform have a gap that could lead to a lot of frustration. In short, the Terraform files and docs have switched to using Network Load Balancers instead of 'Classic', Elastic Load Balancers. The end result is there …
read moreWe have an offline (i.e. airgapped) Ubuntu machine (or machines) and the need to install packages on them. We also are unable to stand up our own repo mirror (because reasons), so all we have is our single machine with limited disk space.
Package up only the …
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