Kubernetes

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How to Deploy TOBS (The Observability Stack) on LKE

TOBS, short for The Observability Stack, is a pre-packaged distribution of monitoring tools and dashboard interfaces.

Using the Kubernetes Dashboard on LKE

The Kubernetes Dashboardis an industry standard open-source web-based user interface designed to be a visual hub for interacting with a Kubernetes cluster, allowing for a more intuitive interface for observing cluster objects, components, containers, applications, and more.

How to Safely Upgrade Minor LKE Versions

Upgrading a Kubernetes cluster is often an involved process in manual Kubernetes configurations, with special attention paid to control plane components and ensuring application uptime.

Cloud Implementation Strategy Road Map

A few years ago the cloud was an idea; one that most pundits and businesses scoffed at.

How to Enable High Availability for LKE Clusters

In LKE, enabling HA ( High Availability) creates additional replicas of your control plane components, adding an additional layer of redundancy to your Kubernetes Cluster and ensuring 99.

Kubernetes Security Best Practices: A Beginner's Overview

If you are deploying your first Kubernetes cluster, it’s important to consider the security best practices that are available to keep your workload safe.

Creating a Kubernetes CronJob

Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is an open source container orchestration system that helps deploy and manage containerized applications.

How to Set Up Rook NFS for Persistent Storage on LKE

Rook NFS allows remote hosts to mount filesystems over a network and interact with those filesystems as though they are mounted locally.

How to Install HashiCorp Consul Service Mesh

Consulis a service mesh offered by HashiCorp, with robust service discovery and diagnostic features for managing your application’s services.

Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline Using LKE

This series covers creating a continuous deployment pipeline within the cloud using LKE (Linode Kubernetes Engine), GitLab, and Helm.

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Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Accessing Internal Services

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Accessing internal services (Slide #93)Accessing Internal Services It’s often necessary to access internal services within the Kubernetes cluster without exposing them to the public internet.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: cert-manager

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: cert-manager (Slide #172)cert-manager The cert-manager tool can be used to manage SSL/TLS certificates for applications within a Kubernetes cluster.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: CI/CD with GitLab

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: CI/CD with GitLab (Slide #187)CI/CD with GitLab To complete this series, we’ll now build a continuous deployment pipeline using a self-hosted GitLab instance (running within our Kubernetes cluster).

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Deploy the Cluster

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Deploying our LKE Cluster (Slide #51)Deploying the LKE Cluster Managed Kubernetes clusters are much easier to setup and maintain than self-managed Kubernetes clusters.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: DNS, Ingress, and Metrics

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: DNS, Ingress, Metrics (Slide #100)DNS, Ingress, and Metrics The next steps are to access our sample application over a domain (DNS), setup an Ingress Controller as a load balancer / reverse proxy, and collect metrics on our application.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: ExternalDNS

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: ExternalDNS (Slide #135)ExternalDNS ExternalDNS is a tool that automatically manages external DNS records from within the Kubernetes cluster.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Get Ready

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Get Ready (Slide #10)Get Ready The goal of this series is to set up a continuous deployment pipeline for a Kubernetes app on a Kubernetes cluster.

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Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Installing metrics-server

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Installing metrics-server (Slide #152)Installing metrics-server Now that there is an application running on our Kubernetes cluster, the next step is to collect metrics on the resources being used.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Installing Traefik

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Installing Traefik (Slide #143)Installing Traefik Traefik is a popular Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, which manages external access to the cluster and provides load balancing functionality.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Kubernetes Review

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Quick Kubernetes review (Slide #62)Kubernetes Review This is an optional part of the series that provides an introduction to Kubernetes.

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Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Managing Stacks with Helm

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Managing stacks with Helm (Slide #107)Managing Stacks with Helm Helm allows us to locate, distribute, and manage software for Kubernetes.

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Prometheus and Grafana

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Prometheus and Grafana (Slide #163)Prometheus and Grafana Going beyond metrics-server, this guide goes over collecting more advanced metrics using Prometheus (to capture the metrics) and Grafana (to display the metrics within a user interface).

Continuous Deployment Using LKE: Sample Application

Slide deck: Cloud Native Continuous Deployment with GitLab, Helm, and Linode Kubernetes Engine: Our Sample Application (Slide #24)Our Sample Application The sample application that we’ll be running on Kubernetes is called DockerCoins (a demo app just for this presentation).

How to Deploy Jenkins X in Linode Kubernetes Engine

What is Jenkins X? Jenkins Xis CI/CD tool that automates the management of development environments and the promotion of new versions of applications between environments.

How to Deploy Prometheus Operator and Grafana on LKE

In this guide, you will deploy the Prometheus Operatorto your Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) cluster using Helm, either as:

How to Install the Linode Block Storage CSI Driver

What is the Linode Block Storage CSI Driver? The Container Storage Interface(CSI) defines a standard that storage providers can use to expose block and file storage systems to container orchestration systems.

Configure Load Balancing with TLS Encryption on Kubernetes

This guide will use an example Kubernetes Deployment and Service to demonstrate how to route external traffic to a Kubernetes application over HTTPS.

Install the Linode CCM on an Unmanaged Kubernetes Cluster

The Linode Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)provides a way for Kubernetes clusters to access additional Linode services.

How to Get Started with Load Balancing on an LKE Cluster

The Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is Linode’s managed Kubernetes service. When you deploy an LKE cluster, you receive a Kubernetes Master which runs your cluster’s control plane components, at no additional cost.

How to Deploy Kubeflow on LKE (Linode Kubernetes Engine)

What is Kubeflow? Kubeflowis an excellent alternative for training and evaluating machine learning models in public and private clouds.

How to Deploy the Elastic Stack on Kubernetes

What is the Elastic Stack? The Elastic Stackis a collection of open source projects from Elastic that help collect and visualize a wide variety of data sources.

How to Drain a Node Pool in Linode Kubernetes Engine

Draining a Node You can use kubectl drain to safely evict all of the pods from a node before you perform maintenance on the node such as kernel upgrade, hardware maintenance, and others.

What is Kubernetes cert-manager?

What is cert manager? Cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on designed to assist with the creation and management of TLS certificates.

How to Deploy an LKE Cluster Using Terraform

What is the Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)? The Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads.

How to Deploy K3s on Linode

K3sis a lightweight, easy-to-install Kubernetes distribution. Built for the edge, K3s includes an embedded SQLite database as the default datastore and supports external datastore such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and etcd.

How to Set Up a Docker Registry with LKE and Object Storage

Hosting a private Docker registry alongside your Kubernetes cluster allows you to securely manage your Docker images while also providing quick deployment of your apps.

How to Migrate from k8s-alpha CLI to Terraform

The k8s-alpha CLIis deprecated. On March 31st, 2020, it will be removed from the linode-cli. After March 31, 2020, you will no longer be able to create or manage clusters created by the k8s-alpha CLI plugin, however, you will still be able to successfully manage your clusters using the Kubernetes Terraform installer for Linode Instances.

How to Install Apps on Kubernetes with Helm 3

What is Helm?

Deploying a Static Site on Linode Kubernetes Engine

Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) allows you to easily create, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters to meet your application’s demands, reducing the often complicated cluster set-up process to just a few clicks.

How to Deploy NGINX Ingress on Linode Kubernetes Engine

In Kubernetes, an Ingress is an API object that manages the routing of external requests to one of the many possible internal services in a Kubernetes cluster.

Deploy and Manage a Kubernetes Cluster with the Linode API

The Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads.

Deploy and Manage an LKE Kubernetes Cluster on Linode

Note This guide uses Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster. For more information on Kubernetes key concepts, see our Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes The Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads.

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