Calico is a pure layer-3 network solution to interconnect workloads as containers or virtual servers. I relies on bird (BGP opensource project), iptables and the Linux IP stack to work. Brings also additional security features like micro-segmentation. Thanks to BGP is very scalable and also it’s tightly integrated to Kubernetes as CNI plugin. Now we’ll…
Category: Containers and Orchestration
Anything regarding containers or kubernetes, like tips or specific configurations
kubernetes homelab: Installing rancher and creating k8s cluster
We have a small server and we’re going to set up some VMs in KVM for a Kubernetes homelab. I am planing to use OpenVSwitch for my virtual network, set a proxy and a DNS, and finally, install Rancher, and create a cluster with Calico. Over this post I am sharing my notes about installing…
kubernetes homelab: Setting up a Proxy and DNS for docker and centos packages
We have a small server and we’re going to set up some VMs in KVM for a Kubernetes homelab. I am planing to use OpenVSwitch for my virtual network, set a proxy and a DNS, and finally, install Rancher, and create a cluster with Calico. Over this post I am sharing my notes about setting…
Kubernetes homelab: Prepping cluster with KVM and OpenVSwitch
We have a small server and we’re going to set up some VMs in KVM for a Kubernetes homelab. I am planing to use OpenVSwitch for my virtual network, set a proxy and a DNS, and finally, install Rancher, and create a cluster with Calico. Over this post I am sharing my notes about installing…
Kubernetes homelab: Virtual network with OpenVSwitch and Namespaces
We have a small server and we’re going to set up some VMs in KVM for a Kubernetes homelab. I am planing to use OpenVSwitch for my virtual network, set a proxy and a DNS, and finally, install Rancher, and create a cluster with Calico. Over this post I am sharing my notes about installing…
Network namespaces in 5 min
Welcome to this brief reading of Network namespaces in 5 min. You will find answer for questions like: What are they? How they works? How they can be configured? Reader would need some understanding of Linux. If you want to know more about this sort things check my playlist “Great presentations and demos of K8s…
Kubernetes Ingress in 5 min
Welcome to this brief description of Kubernetes Ingress in 5 min. Reader would need some understanding of Kubernetes Services and YAML. If you want to know more about this sort things check my playlist “Great presentations and demos of K8s and tools” in our Youtube Channel and don’t forget to subscribe. Ingress is mainly use to…
Kubernetes Services in 5 min
Welcome to this brief description of Kubernetes services in 5 min. Reader would need some understanding of Kubernetes and YAML. If you want to know more about this sort things check my playlist “Great presentations and demos of K8s and tools” in our Youtube Channel and don’t forget to subscribe. Kubernetes services are objects like…
News – Prometheus accelerates the adoption of best DevOps practices
If you want to know more about Prometheus check my playlist “Great presentations and demos of K8s and tools” in our Youtube Channel and don’t forget to subscribe. Prometheus accelerates the adoption of best DevOps practices. The ecosystem surrounding the open source Prometheus monitoring systems for Kubernetes clusters is starting to mature. Cortex, a scalable,…
Cisco releases Cloud Native SD-WAN solution for Kubernetes
Cisco has introduced an open-source project that it says could go a long way toward reducing the manual work involved in optimizing performance of Kubernetes-applications across SD-WANs (announced at KubeCon Europe 2020) Cisco said it launched the Cloud-Native SD-WAN (CN-WAN) project to show how Kubernetes applications can be automatically mapped to SD-WAN with the result…