A weekly kubectl command you might find useful — The Command This command will retrieve the cpu and memory capacity of all the nodes in your cluster. It shows both “capacity” and “allocatable”. Kubelet reserves a certain amount of cpu and memory with the intention that it will be used for Kubernetes processes like kubelet and your CRI. …

Platform engineers must know this — The concept of having your automated jobs in a UI right next to your git repos is great. It’s what launched Gitlab to success. For a while, it was mostly just them doing this (as far as I know). Most alternatives were external 3rd party CI/CD solutions like Jenkins that…

A weekly kubectl command you might find useful — Update Not sure how I missed this one, but this functionality exists directly in kubectl with: kubectl top po -A --sort-by=cpu Thanks to emmanuel Gelati Mesa for pointing that out. I’ll leave the original tip here in case you anyone finds the tail or sort part out useful for other ideas. The Command …

A weekly kubectl command you might find useful — This blog series is for quick posts of occasionally useful kubectl commands. I hope you find a few of these tips helpful. The Command This one liner is similar to last week’s but might show you some additional functionality that could help you figure out more specific solutions you might be looking…

Into the weeds with k8gb and GSLBs — There are 2 reasons to go “global”: Better performance by proximity to customers Obtaining the highest level of availability and disaster recovery In this post, I’ll be covering the latter use case and it’s why I put “global” in quotes, since the architecture I’ll be discussing is really multi-zone, and…

There’s a better title — Introduction Okay, so there are DevOps Engineers, but the title is misleading and in theory, it shouldn’t be used. DevOps is not any one person’s responsibility. It’s in the name itself. It is the continual goal to improve the processes between developers and operators. It often feels like giving someone that…

RabbitMQ is surpassing Kafka in features and maintainability — Introduction RabbitMQ seems to have fallen to the wayside in recent years with more and more companies turning to streaming databases like Kafka to handle high throughput messaging. That might be changing soon. Kafka has a reputation for being difficult to run at scale. Strimzi, an open source project, tries to…

There’s a better option that you’ve probably never heard of — Introduction I use a lot of great open source projects, but the vast majority of the time, the reason I don’t adopt an open source project is because of the 3rd party database dependency that they rely on. It appears that when a NoSQL (document) database is needed, open source developers…