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Kubernetes: Creating a Static Pod
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Static pods are managed directly by the kubelet without relying on the Kubernetes API server. Unlike regular pods, static pods are defined as manifest files placed in a specific directory on the node.
Since static pods are bound to a specific node, they are suffixed with the node hostname in the pod name. In this post, we will create a static pod in a kind cluster by mounting a directory from the host to the kubelet's static pod directory.
24/02/2025
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Kubernetes: Pod Security
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Security is one of the key concerns when running workloads on Kubernetes. To help teams safeguard their cluster environments, Kubernetes offers Pod Security Standards (PSS). These standards define how to enforce security controls for your pod workloads.
02/09/2024
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Kubernetes: Tunneling through a Pod with socat
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When you need to connect to some service as if you were in the same network as the Kubernetes cluster, you can use a Pod with socat to create a tunnel to the service.
28/08/2024
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Kubernetes: Configuring Topology Spread Constraints to tune Pod scheduling
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Ensuring high availability and fault tolerance in a Kubernetes cluster is a complex task: One important feature that allows us to addresses this challenge is Topology Spread Constraints.
10/07/2023
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Set the default container for kubectl
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One of the many improvements we get in Kubernetes 1.27 is the ability to set what's the default container:
apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: multi-container-pod spec: containers: - image: alpine:latest name: one command: - sh - -c - 'while true; do echo one; sleep 1m; done' - image: alpine:latest name: two command: - sh - -c - 'while true; do echo two; sleep 2m; done' - image: alpine:latest name: three command: - sh - -c - 'while true; do echo tree; sleep 3m; done'01/06/2023
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