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Run multiple multiple clusters with minikube
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Whenever we need to test something on a Kubernetes clusters one of the easier (and cheaper) option is test it out using minikube. However, how do we test a feature that require multiple clusters?
21/03/2022
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terraform: Retrieving values from a map using the lookup function
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When using HCL, if we want to access an element within a map we can use the usual index access present on many other languages. By using the lookup function we can do exactly that but providing a default value in case there's no such key.
18/03/2022
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List all the images a minikube is using
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Running applications on minikube is a great test bed, but it can get messy pretty easily. That's specially true if there are several people messing with it.
It might be useful to retrieve all the images we are using to run the services. For this we can either describe all the Pods on all the Namespaces or check that the minikube image ls command
17/03/2022
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How to create Composite Resources with Crossplane
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With Crossplane we define Composite resources as the combination of other resources. Let's take a look on how to do this we are going to take some terraform code, tranform it into Crossplane objects and the create a Composition based on them
16/03/2022
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How to mount a host directory on minikube
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To be able to test Kubernetes applications, minikube is a great tool: You can create an ephemeral Kubernetes cluster to test whatever is needed and delete it as easily as it was created. Futhermore, since it can use your computer's resources you won't get billed as you would if you'd choose to use a cloud provider.
Another advantage is that we can make available local directories to the cluster using minikube mount
14/03/2022
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