Due to recent refactoring, I figured out that I need to move some Terraform state items from one S3 path to another. And then to merge configurations with other stuff at the destination directory. Terraform can move state items around, but this
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More than one year ago CoreOS introduced AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) support for Kubernetes. This project was born out of Ticketmaster’s tight relationship with CoreOS. It was in an alpha state for a long time, so I waited for some beta/stable
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I will say that “starting” a Kubernetes cluster is a relatively easy job. Deploying your application to work on top of Kubernetes requires more effort especially if you are new to containers. For people that worked with Docker this can also be
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Most users while starting to learn Kubernetes will get to the point of exposing some resources outside the cluster. This is like a Hello World example in the Kubernetes world. And in most cases the solution to this problem is the ingress
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Sometimes you just want to expose some services that don’t have any authentication mechanism. Many users have this issue, especially with Kubernetes, because it is damn easy to expose any service over ingress and also to have HTTPS by default with Let’s
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A few days ago I read a great post from Troy Hunt about HTTPS. The title “HTTPS is easy” is there for a good reason! HTTPS is easy, especially with the platforms like Kubernetes. Unfortunately, not all people agree with this. I
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A few months ago I wrote an article about Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller. That article is actually the second most popular post on this blog. It’s focused on using Kubernetes ingress for on-premises deployments. But, most of the users run Kubernetes on
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Make no mistake, running a production Kubernetes cluster is not that easy. And, unless you use cloud resources smart you will be spending a lot of money. You only want to use resources that are really needed. When you deploy Kubernetes cluster
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Last week I wrote about getting Kubernetes cluster metrics with Prometheus. Metrics are only one part of the story. Logs are important as well and luckily we have a great set of tools that will help us to create simple and easy
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Having a Kubernetes cluster up and running is pretty easy these days. But, when you start to use the cluster and deploy some applications you might expect some issues over time. Kubernetes being a distributed system is not easy to troubleshoot. You
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