We will be using a TKGi cluster to setup Velero and to replicate a production environment, we will use the air-gapped (using images from private registry instead of pulling images directly from the internet) approach to install velero.Hence, we assume a private registry (ex: Harbor) and docker client already exists in the environment and we…
I was recently tasked with upgrading a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster to v1.26.5 (version v1.26.5+vmware.2-fips.1 to be specific). Once I completed the upgrade, to my surprise, when I did a “kubectl get pods“, I found them to be missing. When i went digging for any known issues, I noticed something related to Pod Security that I…
It has been a while since I wrote something in the space. This one has been long overdue. Almost all enterprises are slowly migrating their workloads to cloud native spaces, either on-prem or on the cloud. There are many external factors that aids the decision making process of whether the cloud-native applications are going to…
I previously wrote about setting up a kubernetes cluster here and about how to further add nodes to that cluster here. As a follow up to this series of blogs, I would like to demonstrate setting up a private image repository here.Pre-requisites: Pre-installed docker client on any linux variant SSL Certs of the node where…
My newfound love, Kubernetes or K8s (how its fondly known), has made my lazy weekends more meaningful. While I am at the very early stages of getting exposed to a production grade kubernetes environment, I continue to play around with the technology at every chance I get, with the least of resources I have managed…
With the tech world shifting its focus towards app modernization (as they call it), cloud native platforms have become increasingly popular. One such platform has become my new found love, of course, after other few priorities! To those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes or K8s before, I am sure you will regret for having missed…
