One awesome tool that I got to learn a great deal more about during KubeCon EU is Linkerd 2. It’s simple to use and looks really promising. This post is about setting it up and the things I encountered during that process.
Kubernetes Linkerd Service Mesh
The past few months I’ve heavily invested into learning Kubernetes. So far, I’ve loved every part of it. At work I am constraint at the environments we run our systems in. We’re not able to move to the public cloud for various reasons, and do not have any persistent storage available through an API that can be easily mounted and controlled using a storage plugin / driver. So I started browsing around.
Kubernetes Rook Storage
I have various Terraform modules for many purposes and often they end up using CentOS with a Docker install script. While demoing something to a co-worker, we had to wait ~7 minutes for a Terraform apply it to finish with an install script. This should be a lot faster, so I sat down this sunday and looked into Packer.
DigitalOcean Packer Terraform
There are many solutions for performing log collection or log management. Personally I’ve got experience with using the ELK stack. So this post will focus on ELK with Logspout for log collection.
Docker Swarm mode Logspout
Here’s how to upgrade Docker in a Swarm mode cluster without cluster down time.
Docker Swarm mode
I recently started playing around with Terraform. Since I often manually spin up a couple of droplets on DigitalOcean to set up a Swarm mode cluster to try out some projects or set ups, I figured I should put all of that into code as my first Terraform project. I created a Terraform module for provisioning a basic Swarm mode cluster during this project. Ideal for labs or development clusters.
Terraform Orchestration DigitalOcean Swarm mode