Posts tagged "Kubernetes"

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Your Kubernetes: Strategic Asset or Ticking Time Bomb?
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Your Kubernetes: Strategic Asset or Ticking Time Bomb?

A familiar story Two years ago, Marc, an executive at a respected company, made what seemed like a well-reasoned decision: to build and manage his own...
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Leveraging Exoscale Nested Virtualization Using Multipass
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Leveraging Exoscale Nested Virtualization Using Multipass

Over the last few years, I delivered many Kubernetes trainings, some of which were preparations for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certi...
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Revamping the SKS Node OS Image: Performance, Tooling, and Security
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Revamping the SKS Node OS Image: Performance, Tooling, and Security

Exoscale’s SKS (Scalable Kubernetes Service) has introduced a major revamp of the Kubernetes node base image as part of the Kubernetes 1.32 update. Th...
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Connecting to your cluster using Dex
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Connecting to your cluster using Dex

In a previous article, we explored how to connect to an SKS cluster with OIDC using GitLab as the OpenID provider. In this article we’ll introduce Dex...
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Connecting to your cluster using GitLab and OIDC
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Connecting to your cluster using GitLab and OIDC

In this article we’ll explore how to connect to an SKS Kubernetes cluster using GitLab as the OpenID provider. We’ll use users and groups defined in G...
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A deep dive into Exoscale SKS internals
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A deep dive into Exoscale SKS internals

Many people use cloud providers on a regular basis. Running a virtual machine, launching a Kubernetes cluster and managing complex infrastructure comp...
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How to deploy stateful Kubernetes workloads on Exoscale SKS
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How to deploy stateful Kubernetes workloads on Exoscale SKS

What are stateful workloads? By default, workloads running in Kubernetes are stateless. That means when a pod is restarted, all the data it wrote to i...
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cert-manager and Exoscale DNS - Manage SSL certificates with ease
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cert-manager and Exoscale DNS - Manage SSL certificates with ease

cert-manager is a powerful and extensible X.509 certificate controller for Kubernetes. It can manage certificates in the SKS environment and in combin...
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SKS - A Continuous Development of our Kubernetes Service
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SKS - A Continuous Development of our Kubernetes Service

Six months ago, we introduced our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) on the Exoscale platform. Since the first day SKS has evolved further, and we are ...
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Introducing SKS - Scalable Kubernetes Service
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Introducing SKS - Scalable Kubernetes Service

Today we held our webinar introducing Exoscale’s managed Kubernetes offering. Here is a recap of launch event explaining the strategy towards containe...
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Exoscale Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager
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Exoscale Kubernetes Cloud Controller Manager

!!! note The CCM is natively integrated in [Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service][kubernetes] to provides the benefits outlined below seamlessly. As t...
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Configuration management: a Spring Boot use-case with Kubernetes
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Configuration management: a Spring Boot use-case with Kubernetes

Configuration management is one of the lesser known and most undervalued areas in software. It addresses state sync across multiple machines - and eve...
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Kubernetes zero downtime deployment: a Spring Boot use-case
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Kubernetes zero downtime deployment: a Spring Boot use-case

In our first article on Kubernetes zero downtime deployment, we defined the reasons why one would want to achieve zero-downtime deployment, how Kubern...
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Kubernetes zero downtime deployment: when theory meets the database
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Kubernetes zero downtime deployment: when theory meets the database

If you happen to use established online applications like e.g. Gmail, or some the biggest social media or e-commerce platforms, you probably never enc...
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Configuring Kubernetes Applications with kustomize
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Configuring Kubernetes Applications with kustomize

Once you start using Kubernetes to manage your containerized applications, you will most likely embrace the command line interface kubectl. Since the ...
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Using RKE to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Exoscale
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Using RKE to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Exoscale

One of the biggest challenges with Kubernetes is bringing up a cluster for the first time. There have been several projects that attempt to address th...
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