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enhancements
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IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
> was always told early on that although they supported vault on kubernetes via a helm chart, they did not recommend using it on anything but EC2 instances (because of "security" which never really made sense their reasoning).
The reasoning is basically that there are some security and isolation guarantees you don't get in Kubernetes that you do get on bare metal or (to a somewhat lesser extent) in VMs.
In particular for Kubernetes, Vault wants to run as a non-root user and set the IPC_LOCK capability when it starts to prevent its memory from being swapped to disk. While in Docker you can directly enable this by adding capabilities when you launch the container, Kubernetes has an issue because of the way it handles non-root container users specified in a pod manifest, detailed in a (long-dormant) KEP: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/... (tl;dr: Kubernetes runs the container process as root, with the specified capabilities added, but then switches it to the non-root UID, which causes the explicitly-added capabilities to be dropped).
You can work around this by rebuilding the container and setting the capability directly on the binary, but the upstream build of the binary and the one in the container image don't come with that set (because the user should set it at runtime if running the container image directly, and the systemd unit sets it via systemd if running as a systemd service, so there's no need to do that except for working around Kubernetes' ambient-capability issue).
> It always surprised me how these conversations went. "Well we don't really recommend kubernetes so we won't support (feature)."
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Exploring cgroups v2 and MemoryQoS With EKS and Bottlerocket
0 is not the request we've defined. And that makes sense. Memory QoS has been in alpha since Kubernetes 1.22 (August 2021) and according to the KEP data was still in alpha as of 1.27.
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Jenkins Agents On Kubernetes
Note: There's actually a Structured Authentication Config established via KEP-3331. It's in v1.28 as a feature flag gated option and removes the limitation of only having one OIDC provider. I may look into doing an article on it, but for now I'll deal with the issue in a manner that should work even with a bit older versions versions of Kubernetes.
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Isint release cycle becoming a bit crazy with monthly releases and deprecations ?
Kubernetes supports a skew policy of n+2 between API server and kubelet. This means if your CP and DP are both on 1.20, you could upgrade your control plane twice (1.20 -> 1.21 -> 1.22) before you need to upgrade your data plane. And when it comes time to upgrade your data plane you can jump from 1.20 to 1.22 to minimize update churn. In the future, this skew will be opened to n+3 https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-architecture/3935-oldest-node-newest-control-plane
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Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged
The KEP (Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal) is linked to in the PR [1]. From the summary:
> Sidecar containers are a new type of containers that start among the Init containers, run through the lifecycle of the Pod and don’t block pod termination. Kubelet makes a best effort to keep them alive and running while other containers are running.
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...
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What's there in K8s 1.27
This is where the new feature of mutable scheduling directives for jobs comes into play. This feature enables the updating of a job's scheduling directives before it begins. Essentially, it allows custom queue controllers to influence pod placement without needing to directly handle the assignment of pods to nodes themselves. To learn more about this check out the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal 2926.
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Dependencies between Services
What your asking is a (vanilla) Kubernetes non-goal, others have mentioned fluxcd and other add ons that provide primitives for dependency aware deployments. The problem space is so large, that it's unreasonable to to address these concerns in Kubernetes itself, instead, make it extensible... Look at this KEP for example: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/753 Sidecar containers have existed, and been named as such since WAY before that KEP's inception, defining what these things should and shouldn't do is largely arbitrary. Aka: your use-case is niche, if you don't like the behavior, use flux or argo, or write something yourself.
- When you learn the Sidecar Container KEP got dropped from the Kubernets release. Again.
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Kubernetes 1.27 will be out next week! - Learn what's new and what's deprecated - Group volume snapshots - Pod resource updates - kubectl subcommands … And more!
If further interested, I may recommend checking out the KEP. I love how they document the decision making, and all these edge cases :).
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How can I force assign an IP to my Load Balancer ingress in “status.loadBalancer”?
See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/conventions/#subresources and https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2590
autoscaler
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
We use Cluster Autoscaler to automatically adjust the number of nodes (cluster size) based on your actual usage to ensure efficiency. Additionally, we deploy Vertical and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers to scale your applications' resources as their needs change automatically.
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Not Everything Is Google's Fault (Just Most Things)
> * Hetzner: cheap, good service, the finest pets in the world, no cattle
You can absolutely do cattle with Hetzner. They support imaging and immutable infrastructure. They don't have a native auto scaling equivalent, but if you're using Kubernetes, they have a cluster autoscaler: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster...
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Kubernetes(K8s) Autoscaler — a detailed look at the design and implementation of VPA
Here we take the VPA as a starting point to analyze the design and implementation principles of the VPA in Autoscaler. The source code for this article is based on Autoscaler HEAD fbe25e1.
- Scaling with Karpenter and Empty Pod(A.k.a Overprovisioning)
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Reducing Cloud Costs on Kubernetes Dev Envs
Autoscaling over EKS can be accomplished using either the cluster-autoscaler project or Karpenter. If you want to use Spot instances, consider using Karpenter, as it has better integrations with AWS for optimizing spot pricing and availability, minimizing interruptions, and falling back to on-demand nodes if no spot instances are available.
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☸️ Managed Kubernetes : Our dev is on AWS, our prod is on OVH
Autoscaling is already provided on OVH, but we don't use it for now. Autoscaler has to be manually installed on the AWS/EKS cluster.
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relevant way of scaling pods
do you mean this: https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler/pkg/recommender/README.md
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Kubernetes Cluster Maintenance
Read more about this scaler in detail here!
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Anyone running Windows nodes in your clusters?
We have a default node group of Linux hosts, but there's a secondary nodegroup of Windows hosts that is typically scaled down to 0. When a team's build runs, a pod is scheduled based on their definition. Cluster-autoscaler will check the nodeSelector and automatically spin up a node from that nodegroup if necessary.
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How to make sure Kubernetes autoscaler not deleting the nodes which runs specific pod
I am running a Kubernetes cluster(AWS EKS one) with Autoscaler pod So that Cluster will autoscale according to the resource request within the cluster.
What are some alternatives?
kubeconform - A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
karpenter-provider-aws - Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
spark-operator - Kubernetes operator for managing the lifecycle of Apache Spark applications on Kubernetes.
cluster-proportional-autoscaler - Kubernetes Cluster Proportional Autoscaler Container
kubernetes-json-schema - Schemas for every version of every object in every version of Kubernetes
aws-ebs-csi-driver - CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
klipper-lb - Embedded service load balancer in Klipper
keda - KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
Hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement
descheduler - Descheduler for Kubernetes
connaisseur - An admission controller that integrates Container Image Signature Verification into a Kubernetes cluster
k3s-aws-terraform-cluster - Deploy an high available K3s cluster on Amazon AWS