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Understanding cilium_event_type when using Cilium & Hubble

The Issue In a platform that’s deployed with Cilium, when using Hubble either to view the full JSON output or to configure which events are captured using the allowlist or denylist you may have seen a field called event_type which uses an integer. Below is an example allow list using “event_type”, to define which flows … Continue reading Understanding cilium_event_type when using Cilium & Hubble

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vRealize Automation – Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh

This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Google Kubernetes Clusters (GKE), register them as: Kubernetes endpoints in vRA Cloud Assembly and Code Stream An attached in Tanzu Mission Control Onboard in Tanzu Service Mesh This post mirrors my other blog posts following similar concepts: Using vRA to deploy … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh

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EKS – Kubectl – Unable to connect to the server – Exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1

The Issue After moving my life over to a new Macbook and installing the latest AWS CLI tools including “aws-iam-authenticator” tool, I couldn’t run commands against my EKS Clusters. I kept hitting the following issue; > kubectl get pods Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1, … Continue reading EKS – Kubectl – Unable to connect to the server – Exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1

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Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling

Continuing from the First Look blog post, where we created a distributed application between different public cloud Kubernetes deployments and connected them via Tanzu Service Mesh. We will move onto some of the more advanced capabilities of Tanzu Service Mesh. In this blog post, we’ll look at how we can setup monitoring of our application … Continue reading Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling

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GKE – User cannot create resource – requires one of [“container.roles.create”] permission(s)

The Issue I stood up my first ever GKE cluster! Woo, go me! However when I was trying to setup Tanzu Service Mesh, I hit issues such as: Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating “operator-deployment.yaml”: roles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io is forbidden: User “[email protected]” cannot create resource “roles” in API group “rbac.authorization.k8s.io” in the namespace “vmware-system-tsm”: requires one … Continue reading GKE – User cannot create resource – requires one of [“container.roles.create”] permission(s)