Implement Tanzu on private networks with VyOS
With a virtual router (here VyOS ), and proper routing table, it is possible to implement VMware Tanzu on private networks without NSX-T.
Kubernetes
Use cert-manager with Karavi Observability
Check out how Prometheus metrics & Grafana dashboard work for CSI PowerFlex from this karavi observability video .
Learn more about karavi and karavi-observability from their respective repositories.
PersistentVolume static provisioning
In this article, we will discuss and present a script (ingest-static-pv.sh ) for Persistent Volume static provisioning of Dell CSI Drivers for PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerFlex, and Unity.
K8s mount PV with SELinux
If you want to use Kubernetes with SELinux and mount PersistentVolume, you have to make sure your mounted FS has labels.
You can do it with the mountOptions -o context="system_u:object_r:container_var_lib_t:s0" and if your driver doesn't support it, you can write an SELinux policy.
Pod uses dynamic environment variable
This post is build-up on the Merge ConfigMap and Secrets post. It is another use of initContainers , templating, and entrypoint to customize a container startup.
Gitlab CI/CD with CSI PowerMax
Watch the basic deployment & snapshot-based deployment videos on Youtube and check the .gitlab-ci-cd.yaml on Gitlab.
Merge ConfigMap and Secrets
To use a Secret value within a ConfigMap you can use an initContainer to call a template engine.
K8s events monitoring
For events monitoring you can use this ready-to-go elastic + kibana + k8s-event-exporter stack from: k8s-events-reporting