Kubernetes
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Openlens Kubernetes IDE – Opensource Lens Desktop
If you are looking for a Kubernetes IDE solution that provides a graphical interface for interacting with your Kubernetes clusters, you may have stumbled onto Lens, an excellent product from Mirantis. Many have wondered about the future of the product…
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Install Hashicorp Vault in Kubernetes
A great solution to run inside Kubernetes is Hashicorp Vault. Vault server is a solution from Hashicorp that allows you to securely introduce secrets management and inject secrets in your environment by using environment variables, dynamic API calls, etc. You…
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Rancher cloud-config.yml Exampleย SSH keys in VMware vSphere nodes
If you have played around with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu and specifically the Ubuntu cloud images, there is functionality built into new Linux distros called cloud-init that allows customizing and initializing your Linux installation. If you are using Rancher…
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Install Harvester in VMware ESXi
I have been playing around with Harvester by Rancher which is a pretty cool project that combines Kubernetes with Virtual Machines. For those that want to play around with Harvester and may not have a physical workstation to play around…
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Rancher Kubevirt with Harvester Virtual Machines with Kubernetes
Rancher Harvester is a product from Rancher that allows organizations to run an HCI solution in their infrastructure. Wait, isn’t Rancher about running Kubernetes? It is. However, using Rancher Harvester, you can actually use it to run virtual machines. How…
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Traefik Helm install and configuration
Traefik is a great ingress controller for Kubernetes clusters allowing you to have an L7 ingress routing engine to route ingress traffic to your Kubernetes-hosted services. In this tutorial, we will look at Traefik helm install and configuration to see…
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Kubernetes Install MetalLB Loadbalancer
One of the toughest aspects of learning Kubernetes is wrapping your mind around how services and internal containers are exposed to the outside world. There are a number of ways to do this and each has pros and cons, but…
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Install Longhorn Rancher for Kubernetes Block Storage
Storage and specifically persistent storage has been a challenge with Kubernetes and containerized workloads. Rancher Longhorn is a solution that helps to solve the problem of Kubernetes persistent storage and allows organizations to install and configure Kubernetes storage easily and…
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Rancher Node Template VMware ESXi – Ubuntu Cloud Image
In one of the Youtube videos I had created some time ago, one of the questions that keep coming up is how you create the Rancher Node Template VMware configuration. Specifically, many run into challenges with the template portion of…
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Traefik Ingress Example YAML and setup in K3s
I have been playing around lately in my DevOps learning adventures with Traefik. Traefik is a great ingress controller that you will find used just about everywhere in Kubernetes deployments. However, it can be a bit challenging to deploy. There…
