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 blog post I’m going to detail how deploy and configure a Nvidia GPU enabled Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster in AWS. The method will be similar for Azure, for vSphere there are a number of additional steps to prepare the system. I’m going to essentially follow the official documentation, then run some of the … Continue reading Deploying Nvidia GPU enabled Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters
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
In this blog post I am going to walk you through how to edit the Machine Resource configurations for nodes deployed by Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Example Issue – Disk Pressure In my environment, I found I needed to alter my node resources, as several Pods were getting the evicted status in my cluster. Node-Pressure Eviction … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – How to edit Node resources and Scale a Cluster Vertically With kubectl
I’m currently troubleshooting an issue with my Kubernetes clusters where pods keep getting evicted, and this is happening across namespaces as well. The issue now that I am faced with, is being able to keep ontop of the issues. When I run: kubectl get pods -A | grep Evicted I’m presented with 100’s of returned … Continue reading Quick Tip – Kubernetes – Delete all evicted pods across all namespaces