Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz

Trick #3 – What Do I Have Permissions For?

Ahoy, There! This is just one blog post in an ongoing series about fun things you can do with the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl. We have a whole bunch of these over on our Silly Kubectl Tricks page. Also don’t forget to checkout out the video series on YouTube! Stretching as far back as version 1.8

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Trick #2 – List Running Images

Ahoy, There! This is just one blog post in an ongoing series about fun things you can do with the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl. We have a whole bunch of these over on our Silly Kubectl Tricks page. Also don’t forget to checkout out the video series on YouTube! Running Kubernetes in production means taking inventory.

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Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes!

Ahoy, There! This is just one blog post in an ongoing series about fun things you can do with the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl. We have a whole bunch of these over on our Silly Kubectl Tricks page. Also don’t forget to checkout out the video series on YouTube! To say that Kubernetes uses a bit

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Getting Started with Amazon EKS

Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, or more commonly, EKS, is a managed Kubernetes cluster offering from the makers of S3, EC2, and Route 53. With a managed Kubernetes cluster, you are responsible for providing (and paying for) worker machines that do all the heavy lifting in Kubernetes: run pods, manage networking, etc. With EKS, Amazon provides

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Building Docker images for Kubernetes running on ARM

Nearly every Docker image you’ve ever run on Kubernetes will not work on your Homelab Raspberry Pi cluster. Why? What do we need to do? This article introduces the “docker buildx” plugin to make it easy to produce mult-arch Docker images. I’ve started a new home lab of Raspberry Pis (and soon to include some

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Trying tiny k3s on Google Cloud with k3sup

Tutorial based on https://blog.alexellis.io/create-a-3-node-k3s-cluster-with-k3sup-digitalocean/ and converted for Google Cloud gcloud commands. At the end is a curl | bash -s up all-in-one command if you want to do this again in future. $ gcloud compute instances create k3s-1 \ –machine-type n1-standard-1 \ –tags k3s,k3s-master Created [https://www.googleapis.com/…/zones/us-west1-a/instances/k3s-1]. $ gcloud compute instances create k3s-2 k3s-3 \ –machine-type

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Public Bare Metal CF Cheaper than Public Cloud CF!  Whoa!

Cloud Foundry Summit EU is over and, as part of our servant leadership culture at Stark & Wayne, we reflect on what we’ve learned. First, we want to thank the Cloud Foundry Foundation for offering us the opportunity to sponsor the Hands-On Labs (HOL) and in particular, Chris Clark, for keeping everyone organized and on

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Kpack, oh kpack, wherefore art thou build logs?

Any CI/CD is just like a serverless platform or PaaS: you run other people’s code. The difference? With a platform you expect the code to work. With CI/CD you’re waiting for things to fail. So you can fix them. Until they work. Hopefully. And to fix them you need logs. kpack is a new open

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Too Many Open Files: A Fence or an Ambulance

Today I was researching an error message for a client that contained the error: Too many open files Usually this leads to answers like “change the file limit”. But this is using an ambulance when we need a fence. What do I mean by that? When I was in elementary school a man came to

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