• helm's dry-run mode to render yaml files without applying them

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    kubernetes helm yaml dry-run helm chart

    When you are installing or upgrading a helm chart sometimes feels like an act of faith: You don't really know what it's going to actually deploy. With the --dry-run option

    08/01/2021

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  • Preview changes before applying a yaml file to a kubernetes cluster

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    kubernetes diff change

    Applying changes to a kubernetes cluster using yaml files it's very similar to applying changes to source code: It's always best to have the diff for being able to actually see the changed that we are going to make.

    07/01/2021

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  • Usage of git stash

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    While working on a change it can happen that someone else have updated the remote repository with completely unrelated changes. Instead of having to perform a merge commit we can download the changes to apply our changes on top of that commit.

    06/01/2021

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  • Access kubernetes secrets as volumes

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    kubernetes secret volume pod deployment mount

    To be able to use a secret on a Deployment (or generally speaking, any pod) we can choose to share it by using either volumes or environment variables. Let's take a look hwo it would look like using an volume mount.

    05/01/2021

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  • kubectl top

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    kubernetes kubectl cpu memory metrics-server

    If we have the metrics-server installed on our kubernetes cluster, we can use kubectl to see the amount of resources out pods are using and how much loaded are our worker nodes

    04/01/2021

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