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Set command arguments with environment variables
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When configuring command line arguments for containers we might need to be able to use certain values that might be elsewhere like the name of the current namespace.
We can use environment variables as the source of the information without having to write a wrappet to actually populate them
26/08/2022
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Dynamically provisioned PersistentVolumes using StatefulSet
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The basic idea behind a StatefulSet is to be able to manage stateful workloads on Kubernetes, unlike Deployments, creating a unique identity for each Pod using a common spec.
With this in mind we might just copy the Pod's template from a Deployment to a StatefulSet object to make it stateful, but it's not always quite that simple.
21/02/2022
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What's a Kubernetes Deployment object?
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Maybe the most common object used for deploying applications on Kubernetes is the Deployment object. It is intended to provide declarative updates for Pods at a controlled rate.
With a Deployment we are setting the desired state of a ReplicaSet. The Deployment controller will take the appropriate actions to adjust the ReplicaSet so it has the correct amount of Pods
09/08/2021
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Kubernetes deployment strategies
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To update a Deployment objects we can choose between two built-in strategies used to replace old Pods by new ones: Recreate and RollingUpdate
Let's see the differences between them
04/08/2021
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Using an HPA object to autoscale a deployment based on it's Pods CPU metrics
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On Kubernetes, scaling an application is just a matter of defining how many replicas we want:
$ kubectl scale deployment/demo --replicas=5 deployment.apps/demo scaledHaving to manually adjust the number of replicas is not really practical. Here's where the HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) comes into play
01/07/2021
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