Trying K8sGPT – AI For Kubernetes

Artificial Intelligence is showing up everywhere, including Kubernetes! The K8sGPT project is an official CNCF sandbox project, first announced at KubeCon Amsterdam in 2023. It was open-sourced under the Apache-2.0 license and the github project already has lots of stars and contributors. Its motto is … Giving Kubernetes Superpowers to everyone In this article I

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Centralized Secrets with ESO and AWS Secrets Manager

If you manage several Kubernetes clusters across different AWS accounts, you know it can be challenging to manage Kubernetes secrets across all of those clusters. This article describes a method to store secrets values in AWS Secrets Manager in a single account and use those secrets in Kubernetes clusters running in different AWS accounts. Furthermore,

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Understanding How Kubernetes Exposes Metrics

Kubernetes does not come with a full-featured monitoring solution out-of-the-box, however it does expose metrics for the health and state of the cluster and its workloads. These metrics are exposed by APIs, which are in turn collected by monitoring solutions such Prometheus, Metric Server and many other third-party tools. You can read more about the

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Exploring Static Pods

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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