Securing etcd in a Kubernetes cluster is crucial as etcd is a distributed key-value store that holds the cluster’s configuration data, including sensitive information. It acts as a reliable and highly available database that stores information about the cluster’s configuration, its current state, and metadata. What “etcd” does in kubernetes ? 1. Configuration Data Store: […]
Kubernetes: How Blue-Green Deployment works?
Blue-green deployment involves simultaneously operating two application environments within a production cluster. In this deployment approach, the stable version of the application is deployed in the first environment (blue), while the new version is deployed in the second environment (green). By default, Kubernetes performs a rolling update of a deployment. As part of the rollout […]
BDRSuite v5.6.0 – Released with Active Directory for Client addition
BDRSuite is a software suite designed for backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity purposes. It is typically used by businesses and organizations to protect their critical data and ensure that they can quickly recover from unexpected events, such as hardware failures, cyberattacks, natural disasters, and other disruptions. BDRSuite v5.6.0 released with fluid and clutter-free web […]
Setup, Scale & Operate: How-to Run MongoDB on AWS Cloud
During the boom of the cloud infrastructure industry, Amazon Web Services (AWS) was one of the forerunners that jumpstarted the move to the cloud. Starting out 15 years ago as a solution to help software engineers overcome issues when creating and maintaining digital infrastructure, Amazon began selling access to a web-based app. This technology enabled individuals […]
Top 10 Cloud Website Builders for Devs in 2023
Although no-code has been a popular avenue for website builders to provide accessibility, developers still opt for options that offer code integration as an added layer of customization. Plenty of builders in the market still use intuitive drag-and-drop without sacrificing coding capabilities. With around 200 million active websites, you can bet that the added functionality […]
How to create an Ansible playbook quickly? Use ChatGPT
ChatGPT made a big revolution in the 21st century and called big giants to think differently rather than polishing existing products. ChatGPT can respond like an actual human or even better. ChatBots become quite popular to provide basic information for simple queries. ChatGPT is powered by AI(Artificial intelligence) with deep learning techniques and developed by […]
How to get root access on the docker host filesystem?
How to gain root access to the host filesystem in a Docker environment when you don’t have root or “sudo” privileges on the host? Since many Kubernetes systems still run on Docker and a transition to Podman is ongoing, this article provides a solution to allow access to the host filesystem with root privileges from […]
Kubernetes – How to cleanup the failed pods from all namespaces ?
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 […]