Did you know you can use the -f argument with kubectl get? Yep me either. It’s pretty handy actually, as it will provide the status for all your Kubernetes resources deployed using that file or even file from hyperlink! Below is a screenshot example using a file. You can also specify multiple files by adding … Continue reading Quick Tip: Supercharge Kubernetes Resource Retrieval with ‘kubectl get -f’
I had a need to delete a number of Namespaces all at once that were created as part of some automated platform testing. Each namespace had a common naming convention starting with “e2e”, the below command will get all namespaces without the initial returned header line from Kubectl, look for anything with the pattern “e2e” … Continue reading How to delete Kubernetes namespaces or pods with a specific pattern or name
The Issue When deploying a brand new Tanzu Kubernete Grid Management Cluster to a vSphere environment we kept hitting failures like the below. The deployment was very vanilla with the default settings, no extra metadata inputted into the build. !! [1223 15:26:17.84239]: init.go:732] Failure while deploying management cluster, Here are some steps to investigate the … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.6 – Management Cluster deployment failure – unable to patch the cluster object
In this blog post I’m going to dive into how you can create a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster and specify your own container network interface, for example, Cilium. Expanding on the installation, I’ll also cover installing a load balancer service, deploying a demo app, and showing some of the observability feature as well. What is … Continue reading How to Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster using the Cilium CNI
Recently I was working with a software integration that required a Kubernetes Kubeconfig file. I didn’t want to provide my own kubeconfig file, and I also wanted to set the right permissions via a service account. Below is the code I put together for this, partially inspired by this stackoverflow post I came across. If … Continue reading Creating a kubeconfig file for a Kubernetes Service Account