Personal blog focusing on Software Development and Technology
Centralized Log Management is an essential solution for modern software development, especially when utilizing cloud native technologies. In Kubernetes, your application runs in pods which are relatively ephemeral i.e., disposable entities. Trailing the logs of pods is simply a nightmare and in general a very bad idea. A better approach is to persist all logs … Read more
This tutorial will show how to expose TCP or UDP services running in your Kubernetes cluster such as MySQL or any other database with the Nginx Ingress Controller. As you may know, the Kubernetes Ingress caters exclusively for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. If you want to expose other kind of services, you would need to … Read more
How to Create and Manage TLS Certificates for Free on a Kubernetes cluster with Nginx and cert-manager. Using HTTPS to publish your website or expose your API is a must nowadays. Luckily, long gone are the days where you needed to spend hundreds of dollars and time to create and manage a valid TLS / … Read more
Nginx is probably the most popular Ingress Controller with Kubernetes. It is available in many Kubernetes distributions and it is often enabled by default. In this post, I will show you install and configure the Nginx Ingress Controller in few steps. Existent Installation Check Before going ahead and installing the Nginx Ingress Controller, it is … Read more
End of last year I was dishing out blog posts regularly. Then it came Christmas and I decided to wrap up some very interesting articles on Kubernetes. The problem was that I started too much at one go and eventually never completed. Google Search was kind enough to send me an email with a report … Read more
Kubernetes has a fairly complex architecture. For years, developers and operators shied away from trying it out because of its complex installation. Its popularity pushed the community to find ways to simplify this process and tools like kubeadm were created. However, even kubeadm is not straightforward for most. Today I will show you the simplest … Read more
For years, I wanted to write about my take on Agile and DevOps. I never did because I feel there is no value in expressing an opinion if it’s not backed by facts. Today, I am finally in the position of sharing my opinion after having tried and tested successfully Agile and DevOps. I am … Read more
WordPress is without doubt the leading content management tool on the internet. It’s simple to use and it has an endless set of features and plugins. However, its setup and upgrade are not always straightforward. Today, I will teach you how to run it in just few minutes on a Kubernetes cluster. I will also … Read more
If you experienced some issues with your application not redirecting to HTTPs or the correct host on Kubernetes, you are not alone. While refreshing some clusters, I started experiencing this issue as well. I immediately checked the configuration of my Load Balancer but it looked perfectly fine. After digging through the stack, I realized the … Read more
Unfortunately, it has been a very hectic week in a very busy year! I did the wrong decision to refresh my Kubernetes cluster during the weekend. Some unexpected issues coupled with me being extremely tired and I managed to nuke my entire cluster of machines included the backups. No idea how I managed as it … Read more