Tag Archives: kubernetes

Kubernetes Monitoring with Prometheus

By | March 11, 2024

Reading Time: 16 minutes In this article I am going show how to install Prometheus in a Kubernetes cluster using a Kubernetes operator. I will use the Operator Lifecycle Manager to install the operator, all with the ulterior motive to have infrastructure as code and in the extension be able to automate installation and configuration to an as large… Read More »

Traefik v2 in K3S – Take Two

By | April 20, 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutes Two years ago already?!? Apparently more than two years have already passed since I wrote an article about installing and testing Traefik v2 in a K3S cluster. Given a recent article in which I were able to completely automatize the creation and set up of a K3S cluster, I thought I would revisit my old… Read More »

Hot Ingress in the K3S Cluster

By | October 31, 2020

Reading Time: 9 minutes Update 2023-04-21: I have revised the K3S and Traefik installation processes and written a new article in which these are described. The Test-Drive part of this article is still relevant. In this article I will install the free open-source edition of Traefik 2, version 2.3 being the latest at the time of writing, into a… Read More »

OpenEBS on K3S – Open Source Container Attached Storage

By | July 10, 2020

Reading Time: 11 minutes In this article I will install OpenEBS on my K3S Kubernetes cluster and present a simple example showing how to allocate storage for an application running in the cluster.I will take a slight detour to kubectl user contexts and, later, I will use a Persistent Volume and a Persistent Volume Claim to make storage available… Read More »

Upgrading K3S in Multipass

By | May 12, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes These are instructions on how to update a K3S cluster running in Multipass virtual machines. My installation of such a cluster is described in a previous article.The procedure will update K3S, both master and agent nodes, to the latest version of K3S. Master Node When updating the master node I take the opportunity to obtain… Read More »

K3s in Multipass with Remote Management

By | March 29, 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes This is another Kubernetes-related notebook entry in which I will document the procedure for setting up a Kubernetes cluster using K3S in virtual machines created with Canonical’s Multipass. In addition, I will describe how to configure kubectl, the Kubernetes command-line cluster management tool to manage the K3S cluster from outside of the virtual machines in… Read More »

Kubernetes in Docker on Ubuntu and Mac OS X

By | March 8, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes Kubernetes and the echo-system around it has developed a lot during the last few years making Kubernetes much more accessible. In this article, which purpose mostly is to scribble down some notes for myself, I am going to describe how to run Kubernetes in Docker containers using Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) on Ubuntu and Mac… Read More »