It seems like every time I start to work on Kubernetes stuff, I get distracted in some way. Sometimes its other computer stuff, sometimes its just life stuff, but I'll start to get traction in Kubernetes, then I'll make some positive progress and then I'll stall a bit, and then …
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How is Kubernetes doing?
So, at first glance, Kubernetes is not doing well. I haven't seriously played with it in some time, have no current instances running and I do feel a bit disconnected to it. Okay. But, below the surface, things are going on. I'm following a k8s blog or three; I've built …
read moreGetting things set up
I'm starting to get things set up a bit better, and actually spent some time watching new Anais videos. One was ten tips she wished she'd known before learning Kubernetes, which had some good pointers. The most relevant one for me is to "keep going", as I'd hit a bit …
read moreWorking a bit on cloud foundations
While my focus is to learn about Containers and how they work in the Cloud, I'm trying not to neglect some of the basics along the way. To take a more cloud native approach, I'm looking through both Kubernetes the hard way and working through the AWS tutorial on the …
read moreStarting with namespaces
I've been too busy and pulled away from my computer so I haven't made much progress on the local k8s front. I have attended and watched a number of webinars and videos, so things haven't been completely fallow. My last watched video of Anais is the namespace one, so I …
read moreDevOps day and more automation
I spent a bit of time attending a weird but wonderful conference on DevOps hosted in Animal Crossing of all things. While the surroundings seemed silly, the talks I stopped in at were serious and very well done. I also watched another few Anais videos, one on using a templating …
read moreSome troubles and some progress
I'm still punching along k8s wise, but my practical process has slowed a bit. I ran into a server side hiccup, and so that distracted me from delivering more on the netboot side, and I haven't gotten a chance to spin up a local vm to play either. I have …
read moreKubernetes basics
Okay, so I've been fiddling around long enough with k8s that I think I can explain a few basics. First, a lot of this is abstraction layers, to simplify how to deal with things. At the bottom, there are the things we want to run, or programs. Generally these are …
read moreNew day, new k8s install
After struggling for a while on my original install, I decided to bite the bullet and do a fresh install from scratch. For this rev, I used microk8s from the start, but also used the latest and greatest LTS from Ubuntu, instead of my original (so 20 instead of 16 …
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