In the Kubernetes environment, we could often see that pods might fail due to various reasons. Most of the time, it could be related to config issues or capacity-related issues. In such conditions, you could see the pod status could be “pending”, “Crashloopbackoff”, “evicted”, “Failed”, “ContainerCannotRun”, “Error”, “ContainerCreating” etc. As a DevOps engineer, you need […]
How to login to Docker Container/Pods ? Kubernetes/OpenShift
Container is a lightweight, standalone, and executable package of software that includes everything needed to run a piece of software, including the code, a runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings. containers are built from images, which are essentially snapshots of a container at a specific point in time. Docker is most widely used container solution […]
Kubernetes (k8s)- Disaster Recovery Strategies
A disaster recovery (DR) strategy is a plan for maintaining and recovering critical systems and data in the event of a disaster or other interruption. Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is a popular open-source container orchestration system that allows users to automate containerized applications’ deployment, scaling, and management. A disaster recovery (DR) test is important […]
VMware VM Backup and Recovery Solutions – Native vs Third-Party
Backing up your virtual machines (VMs) is a crucial step in protecting your business against data loss and downtime. The size and technologies used in your data center will determine the backup and recovery products that are most suitable for your needs. While this article focuses specifically on the VMware environment, it is important to […]
Cloud Instance Backup / VM Backup strategies
Backing up your cloud instances is important for various reasons. Cloud instances can experience data loss due to a variety of reasons, including hardware failure, software bugs, and cyber attacks. Backing up your instances can help protect against data loss by providing a copy of your data that you can use to restore your instance […]
Git for beginners – Zero to Hero – Basic Operations
Git is a version control system similar to subversion. It is primarily used for source code management in software development. It can be used to keep track of changes in any set of files. With Git, users can track changes to files over time, revert back to earlier versions of the files, and collaborate with […]
Openshift secure route TLS – Is it possible to use secrets?
The OpenShift Container Platform provides multiple options to provide access to external clients. The route is one of the methods to provide the access to external clients. We can enable TLS termination on route to encrpt the data sent over to the external clients. We need to update the valid certificate and private key in […]
Backup Solution for VMware vSphere v8 / vCenter v8
Are you looking for a VMware vSphere 8-supported enterprise backup tool? VMware vSphere 8 is a next-gen hypervisor to host enterprise workloads on both ONPREM and Cloud. It also supports GPU-based acceleration and is integrated with Kubernetes to support microservices. Most of the workloads will be migrated to the microservices platform by 2025. VMware Tanzu is exclusively […]
How to expose service on the Openshift? Enable TLS secure route?
Openshift provides multiple options to expose the application to external traffic. When you deploy a pod in openshift, kubernetes allocates the internal IP address for each pod. If you are deploying an nginx container to serve the webpage, the nginx pod will have a unique internal IP address but it can’t be accessed outside the […]
Quick vi editor hacks for DevOps Engineers
DevOps engineers have to work on a wide range of toolsets to meet the organization’s requirements. In the DevOps role, one tool is going to stay forever to make an engineer’s life simple and more powerful. As the article heading says, it is “vi” editor. The “vi” editor is created by Bill Joy in 1976 […]