Kubernetes the hard way but on-prem - part 1 (Discontinued)

DISCLAIMER I decided to not continue with this due to the huge implications that will be to redo everything not in the cloud. Basically, a lot of time should be invested and I miscalculated it by too much. Therefore, this will be probably the first and only post about these series. Context In order to practice for the CKA exam, it is recommended to perform the famous Kubernetes The Hard Way by Kelsey Hightower....

August 12, 2021 · 4 min · itgaiden

OSS monitoring series

OSS monitoring series Context If you work with micro-services (maybe not) and in the cloud (or not), you have probably heard about the many products for monitoring (or monitoring stacks), the most “modern” and famous OSS are: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki and Prometheus) All these products are open-source projects which have become the go-to for many companies and I can deny that they work well (at least in my experience) especially for services built in the cloud or micro-services....

July 27, 2021 · 2 min · itgaiden

Kubernetes the hard way but on-prem - part 2

Context Let’s continue with the guide, in this part 2. This is based in: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/blob/master/docs/03-compute-resources.md Kubernetes Controllers We will be using the following CIDR 192.168.1.0/24 for node within the cluster: Somred1: 192.168.1.50/24 Somred2: 192.168.1.51/24 Somred3: 192.168.1.52/24 Kubernetes Workers This nodes will act as the Kubernetes workers nodes which will host the pods, we need to have 2 NICs for each node. One NIC will be the one used before to communicate with the other nodes: 192....

1 min · itgaiden