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Kubernetes

KUBECTL TOOLS 

Are you tired of typing the namespace in every kubectl command? Do you keep forgetting the command for switching the kubectl context? Speed up your kubectl process with these kubectl tools! I am refering to the tools that come with kubectx. Installation On macOS I…

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Cloud, Kubernetes, Ops

PROMETHEUS ALERTING 

In an earlier post we saw how to setup a Prometheus instance in our cluster. Here we create alerts on the Prometheus monitoring for when some action is needed on our pods. No need for constant monitoring with Prometheus alerting. For in depth documentation on…

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Cloud, Kubernetes

KUBERNETES INGRESS 

In previous posts on deploying an application to a Kubernetes cluster we used a NodePort to expose the service to the outside world. Kubernetes Ingress is a separate Pod where we can control this exposure via routing, security and rate limiting. In this post we…