Static pods are pods which are not managed by the Kubernetes control plane. Normally, the kubelet running on each node in a cluster watches the kube-api for instructions to launch or delete pods. However, in the case of static pods, the kubelet can manage pods by watching for manifests added to a directory or a […]
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This is going to be a short article, showing a couple of ways to output terraform sensitive data. If you don’t know what that is, basically, you can declare a variable as sensitive and terraform will prevent that data from appearing in CLI and log output. But beware – the data is still saved in
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Why External Secrets Operator Whenever we talk about secrets in Kubernetes, we typically mean sensitive data that should be shared with applications. These are things like API keys, database credentials, certificates, tokens, etc. Kubernetes has a native Secret Object that can expose secrets to pods, however, there are some drawbacks with the built-in approach: To
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If you search for information about setting CPU requests and limits for containers, you might end up becoming even more confused from all the conflicting advice on the topic. This article is my attempt to understand how CPU requests and limits work. In Kubernetes, CPU behaves differently from memory. CPU resources are compressible, meaning you
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