Today, I want to talk about how you can get back on your feet if your Kubernetes pods fail to start due to other errors or non-ready statuses, such as ErrImagePull, Pending, and 0/1 Ready. To do this, you can use the kubectl describe command …
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When developing Helm charts, you may encounter a use case where you need to create a specific Kubernetes resource only if that particular resource is registered with the API. For example, imagine you maintain a Helm chart that should be made deployable to different Kubernetes …
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Everyone who has worked with Kubernetes has seen that awful status before – CrashLoopBackoff. A CrashLoopBackoff indicates that the process running in your container is failing. Your container’s process could fail for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you are trying to run a …
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When you build a Docker image, a series of layers get cached to speed up subsequent builds. However, this caching can have adverse effects if an image layer contains secrets, such as credentials. A malicious person or process could find the layer containing your secrets …
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How many times have you forgotten the name of a Kubernetes API resource you intended to create, view, or modify? Maybe you knew the name of the resource but forgot what the proper schema should be? Both of these scenarios happen to me all the time, especially for resources with longer names or for those I may not interact with daily.
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Over the past several months, I have been co-authoring a book called Learn Helm: Improve productivity, reduce complexity, and speed up cloud native adoption with Helm for Kubernetes. I’m excited to announce that the book is finally available on Amazon and Packt’s website! Helm is … “Learn Helm”
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Earlier, I published a post about performing input validation in Helm using the required and fail functions. These functions provide a simple way to perform inline validation within your chart templates and can be used to ensure that expected values are provided and fit within … “Helm Tricks: Input Validation with values.schema.json”
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There are many times in OpenShift where microservices need to talk to each other internally without exposing routes to the outside world. These microservices interact via the Kubernetes service API, which acts as a load balancer that resolves a set of pods to a single … “Troubleshooting OpenShift Internal Networking”
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When writing charts with Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, it’s often necessary to incorporate some sort of input validation to ensure deployments go as-planned. I’ll talk about two ways of performing validation – using the ‘required‘ and ‘fail‘ functions. Required The better-known function of the … “Helm Tricks: Input Validation with ‘required’ and ‘fail’”
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