What is a validation webhook in Kubernetes? If you are a Kubernetes administrator or learning the security and administration in the Kubernetes environment, this post is for you. Here, I have described the importance of the webhooks, and their uses, and explained how these webhooks may benefit you in administrating your cluster. The out-of-the-box Kubernetes […]
In this post, we will see a few ways to control and enforce the container image download behavior of Kubernetes(kubelet). We will also see the various examples with different Image Pull policies used. The Default behavior When a pod creation is requested, it will be scheduled on the most suitable node by the Kube-scheduler—the kubelet
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This post will provide the procedure and examples to enable the automatic namespace creation in the Kubernetes cluster. By default, if a user requests an object creation in any non-existing namespace, the request will fail. However, this default behavior of the API-Server(Kubernetes) can be altered by an admission plugin called NamesapceAutoProvision. The Default Behaviour: list
This post will describe the steps to store your media files, like images and videos, organized by their creation date. This tool is beneficial for photography enthusiasts and professionals to keep track of their work. Prerequisite: bash ExifTool WSL(if on windows) Important notes: The steps provided here are tested by me on my
One of the most common ways to interact with the Kubernetes Cluster is using the “Kubectl.” By default, in most cases, the output is returned in tabular format, which is good enough for most cases. However, sometimes if you want more control over the produced output, kubectl provides you following formats: kubectl get pod -o
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Have you ever wondered who created a suspicious pod/deployment/service or any other object in Kubernetes? The answer to these questions is the “audit logs.” This post will cover all about the audit logs and the procedure to set up the audit logs in your cluster. I will try to keep the wording of this post
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If you have worked in the Kubernetes environment, the chances are high that you have heard about ETCD Database. ETCD is typically used in distributed systems as a database; the most famous example is Kubernetes. So typically, you will find ETCD present in the controller nodes of the Kubernetes Cluster. For high Availability configurations, ETCD
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Ansible ships with a massive collection of built-in modules; these modules are pretty good in doing their job, cover most of the scenarios, have good documentation, and have a very reliable community backing them. If you wish to see the list or count of the inbuilt modules ansible provides, you can run the ansible-doc -l
This post is will provide steps to add a new node to the Kubernetes cluster using Kubespray. The below snippet shows the existing node in the cluster, note that I have one master and two worker nodes. kubectl get node -o wide NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME kube-master Ready control-plane,master
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In this post, the method to remote SSH into a Linux machine is covered. This is especially helpful when you do not wish to open any Port open in your ISP-provided Router configuration. Using this method, you can SSH into your home machine from any computer on the internet. You would not need any fancy
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