Category: devops

Basic setups for working with Kubernetes

When working with kubernetes (maybe in a CKA exam), you work with terminal most of the time. Configuring the environment properly is vital to save you time. Here are things I do first when entering a new environment (Kubernetes Playground | Katacoda, for example). Enable bash completion Honestly, I don’t use this much. However, occasionally,… Continue reading Basic setups for working with Kubernetes

Affinity and Antiaffinity in Kubernetes simplified

Studying Affinity and AntiAffinity can be challenging due to the length of the official documentation. This post is not intended to replace the official docs but to provide a bird’s-eye view of the structure. Some takeaways: affinity is a sub section of pod’s spec The diagram as follow: The full diagram as follow: Please ignore… Continue reading Affinity and Antiaffinity in Kubernetes simplified

Create and use ConfigMap in Kubernetes With Diagram

Create ConfigMap from YAML file Create and use configmap from single values That would create a configmap with a key myval1 = 10000 Of course, you can use multiple –from-literal blocks in a single command. Use a single value from configmap in pod yaml Create and use multiple environment variables from file If you plan… Continue reading Create and use ConfigMap in Kubernetes With Diagram

Creating Kubernetes Replication Controller in 5 Minutes

Let’s look at the following diagram to create Kubernetes Replication Controller: What to remember when creating ReplicationController apiVersion: v1 You can define number of replicas, selector and template under spec spec->template has its own spec section along side metadata You specify containers’ related attributes under template‘s spec Create ReplicationController YAML file example

Configure SSO Server With Keycloak, HAProxy & Docker

Keycloak is quite a nice tool to handle user authentication and authorization. Both Keycloak and HAProxy are free so you can easily setup an authenication & authorization server very quickly and free (hosting is not free though :)). With the help of Docker, it will take a few minutes (less than 10) for you to… Continue reading Configure SSO Server With Keycloak, HAProxy & Docker