• Setup EKS connector

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    AWS EKS Kubernetes ROSA OpenShift

    With the EKS connector you are going to be able to connect any Kubernetes cluster to the AWS EKS console to visualize it's status, configuration, nodes and workloads but not much else. Let's take a look what's needed:

    12/09/2022

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  • OpenShift: Assign SCC to a SA

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    SecurityContextConstraint OpenShift ServiceAccount Pod

    If you try to create a pod with some privileges using the securityContext you are going to find out that it's not going to work on OpenShift as it would on a vanilla Kubernetes:

    $ kubectl describe sts example-no-scc
    Name:               example-no-scc
    (...)
    
    Events:
      Type     Reason        Age                 From                    Message
      ----     ------        ----                ----                    -------
      Warning  FailedCreate  18s (x13 over 38s)  statefulset-controller  create Pod example-no-scc-0 in StatefulSet example-no-scc failed error: pods "example-no-scc-0" is forbidden: unable to validate against any security context constraint: [provider "anyuid": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, spec.initContainers[0].securityContext.capabilities.add: Invalid value: "DAC_OVERRIDE": capability may not be added, spec.containers[0].securityContext.capabilities.add: Invalid value: "DAC_OVERRIDE": capability may not be added, spec.containers[1].securityContext.capabilities.add: Invalid value: "DAC_OVERRIDE": capability may not be added, provider "nonroot": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "hostmount-anyuid": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "machine-api-termination-handler": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "hostnetwork": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "hostaccess": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "node-exporter": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount, provider "privileged": Forbidden: not usable by user or serviceaccount]
    

    08/09/2022

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  • Kubernetes Secrets: Install External Secrets Operator

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    Kubernetes Secret ExternalSecret Operator SecretStore

    The Kubernetes External Secrets have evolved into an Operator: External Secrets Operator What does it bring to the table?

    05/09/2022

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  • OpenShift: The difference between Project and Namespace

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    project namespace difference OpenShift

    In OpenShift instead of working with Namespaces it uses Projects, but by creating a Project it going to create a Namespace under the hood. What's the difference?

    $ oc get project
    NAME                                               DISPLAY NAME   STATUS
    (...)
    demo                                                              Active
    $ oc get ns
    NAME                                               STATUS   AGE
    (...)
    demo                                               Active   29d
    

    02/09/2022

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