In part 3 of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Labs Challenge, we will deploy a simple application by file and by command. Then we will expose and access the service from within the Kubernetes Cluster. After that, we will explore how Kubernetes Deployments helps us maintain the service by automatically restarting failed PODS through ReplicaSets. Last, but not least, we will discuss how to access the service from outside the Kubernetes cluster.
For the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Labs Challenge, I have decided to use the Katakoda Kubernetes Playground. This way, I do not need to install any Kubernetes cluster before starting the labs. This will be tested now.
The Challenge: perform all eleven labs of LSF558 as a path towards the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam within a day.
Three ways of installing Metricbeat (a performance monitoring solution) on Kubernetes are compared: native vs. helm with set options vs helm with values options. Metricbeat helps us monitoring performance indicators like CPU, Memory, Disk and many more on your Kubernetes nodes. We will show that (and why) installing Metricbeat via helm based on values file is the quickest way of installing Metricbeat. You just need to copy the Metricbeat chart’s values file, adapt it to your needs and run a helm command in order to roll out the Metricbeat agent to all nodes of your Kubernetes cluster.
In our most recent blog post, we have shown how to install ElasticSearch via Helm. This time, we will add a Kibana server (via Helm again), so we can visualize the data stored in the ElasticSearch database. Compared to the…
There may be simpler possibilities for installing ElasticSearch on Docker. However, here, we will choose a way that can be easily expanded for production use: the installation of ElasticSearch on Kubernetes via Helm charts. While installing ElasticSearch using Helm implements…
In this tutorial, we will expose a kubernetes application via HTTPS with a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate. A certificate manager will help us to automatically receive and provision a trusted TLS certificate. It is trusted since Let’s Encrypt has signed the…
You will find here step by step instructions on how to install an ingress controller on a Kubernetes multi-node cluster with an example application on both, HTTP and HTTPS. In our last blog post, we have installed a Kubernetes Ingress…
In this blog post, we will show how to create Kubernetes HTTPS applications with a redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. For that, we will create a and mount a self-signed wildcard certificate to an NginX-based Kubernetes ingress controller. We will…
Kubernetes local volumes go beta. However, what is it, a Kubernetes local volume? Last time, we have discovered, how to use Kubernetes hostPath volumes. However, we also have seen, that hostPath volumes work well only on single node clusters. Here,…
In this blog post, we will start our first persistent kubernetes application. In our role as an administrator, we first will create a persistent volume. Then, in our role as a developer, we will create a persistent volume claim. Later,…
In the blog post, we will learn how to create a kubernetes cluster with the help of kubeadm. We will deploy a Kubernetes master on a CentOS system before we will join a second CentOS system as Kubernetes Node. After describing…
This is part 2 of a series on Kubernetes a la minikube. Minikube is (probably) the easiest way of installing a small Kubernetes system including a graphical user interface. In part 1 we have shown how to install such a system on…
In this blog post tutorial, we will learn, how to install a single node Kubernetes cluster via minikube. We will install minikube on CentOS 7 natively without the need for any virtual machine layer. This post is inspired by the…
This blog post shows a quick way how to install Kubernetes, a Docker orchestration framework published by Google, as a set of Docker containers. With that you can circumvent the hassle you may run into while trying to install Kubernetes natively.…
See how you can run a user space podman container inside another non-privileged container. For that, we create a CentOS 7 image with podman v3 installed. We spin up a Kubernetes non-privileged container from this image, and we show that…
The latest version of Kubernetes does not support Docker as a container runtime anymore. That is why many Kubernetes administrators have migrated their cluster’s container runtime from docker to another container runtime like containerd or cri-o. Or they will do…
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