I was honoured to be a guest on the “Ask an OpenShift Admin” webinar recently. Where I had the chance to talk about OpenShift on VMware, always a hot topic, and how we co-innovate and work together on solutions. You can watch the full session below. Keep reading to see the content I didn’t get … Continue reading OpenShift on VMware – Integrating with vSphere Storage, Networking and Monitoring.
If you’ve have been following any of my blogs that relate to Kubernetes, I am sure that you will have seen the use of my demo application Pac-Man, designed to replicate a small production application with a front end UI service, DB back end service and load balancing service. If not, you can find it … Continue reading Creating and hosting a Helm Chart package to install Pac-Man on Kubernetes
In this post, I will cover how to deploy Prometheus and the Telegraf exporter and configure so that the data can be collected by vRealize Operations. Overview vRealize Operations Delivers intelligent operations management with application-to-storage visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Using policy-based automation, operations teams automate key processes and improve the IT efficiency. … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Telegraf
The Issue When I updated my Kasten application in my Kubernetes cluster, I found that one of the pods was stuck in “init” status. dean@dean [ ~ ] (⎈ |tkg-wld-01-admin@tkg-wld-01:default) # k get pods -n kasten-io -w NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE aggregatedapis-svc-78564d4697-wl9wg 1/1 Running 0 3m9s auth-svc-7977b9684b-zph27 1/1 Running 0 3m11s catalog-svc-7ff7779b75-kmvsr 0/2 Init:0/2 … Continue reading Kubernetes Troubleshooting – Kubelet Unable to attach or mount volumes – timed out waiting for the condition
Over the past month or so I noticed an issue with my Pac-Man Kubernetes application, which I use for demonstrations as a basic app front-end that writes to a database back end, running in Kubernetes. When I restored my instances using Kasten, my Pac-Man high scores were missing. This issue happened when I made some … Continue reading MongoDB Container data loss issue – A Journey