In this post, we will see an automated approach to creating a guest VM with cloud-init using libvert/virt-install. In the Previous post described here, we have seen the manual procedure. Now, we will use a shell script wrapper to do the same for our convenience. For your convenience, the script is loaded with comments, so […]
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This post will demonstrate creating a high-performance guest VM with cloud-init using virt-install. The Qemu/libvert/KVM stack is currently the best bet to get the near-native performance from the virtual machines. When combined with cloud-init, the stack gets more empowered and highly convenient to set up virtual machines. This is especially helpful if you require creating
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In this post, we will see how to install longhorn into your Kubernetes cluster. If you are not familiar with longhorn block storage, it is a production-ready block storage solution specially designed for Kubernetes. you can install longhorn on any managed Kubernetes cluster, on-prem, or even in your home lab. It is a lightweight solution
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In this post, we will see 4 methods to fetch the Kubernetes CA Certificate. This may be needed by the services to validate their certs by the Kubernetes CA. I would prefer the one from the last two methods described here, however, it depends on your use case. Eg: You need it outside of the
This post will show the steps to configure a simple mutation webhook in the Kubernetes cluster. If you are not familiar with webhooks, you can read about them HERE. For this post, I will be using a python(flask) based webserver as a webhook for simplicity. Objective/Example Usecase: In this post, we will set up a
