Tag: Kubernetes

Working with ReplicaSets in Kubernetes

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In Kubernetes, pods are the smallest unit of deployment for compute. A pod can contain one or more containers for the application. However, you would often want one or more instances of pods running in parallel for reasons like scalability, sharding or other reasons. A ReplicaSet ensures that a specified number of pod replicas (one or more) are running at any given time.

ReplicaSets are the building blocks used for the higher level concepts such as deployments or horizontal pod autoscalers. By ensuring that specified number of pod replicas are running, they provide self-healing for applications for certain failure conditions such as node failures or network partitions. Most of the time, one would be using higher level concepts like deployments instead of directly using ReplicaSets.

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Create Multi Node Kubernetes Cluster with k3d

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k3d is a lighweight wrapper to run k3s with docker. Unlike k3s, docker containers can be used to create Kubernetes nodes. It makes it useful to create local multi node clusters on the same machine like kind. This is particularly useful for devs and testers alike, as they would not need to deal with complication of setting up multi node Kubernetes setup.

Installation and Setup for k3d

One of the pre-requisites for k3d to work is docker. You can refer official instructions for same or one of our previous posts for installing docker in rootless mode.

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Control CPU and Memory Resources consumed by Pods in Kubernetes

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By default, containers / pods are allocated unbound resources in the Kubernetes cluster. This allows them to consume as much resources as they need on a given node. However, this is a not a pretty scenario for cluster administrators. With the resource quotas, admins can restrict the amount of cpu and memory resources available, on a namespace basis. Within a namespace, the resource per container or pod can be controlled by using limit ranges.

Limit Range policy can be also be used to minimum and maximum storage request per PersistentVolumeClaim as well.

If no resource requests or limits are defined by the pod/container, limit range policy can be used to do the default allocation.

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Create and Manage Pods in Kubernetes

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A pod is a group of one or more containers in Kubernetes and it is the smallest unit of deployment for compute. The containers in a pod lives in their own cgroups but share a number of linux namespaces. Applications running in the same Pod share the same IP address and port space (network namespace), have the same hostname (UTS namespace), and can communicate using native interprocess communication channels over System V IPC or POSIX message queues (IPC namespace). 

The containers in the pod are not managed individually, they are managed at pod level. The pod may also include init containers, sidecar containers and ephemeral containers, other than containers running actual application processes.

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Working with pods with podman generate and podman play

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Podman pods are a way to manage group of application containers together as one pod. It is similar in that way to Kubernetes pods. While you may add many containers as you need with a pod, it would be easier if you can export and import pod manifests entirely. This would allow you to easily create pod with requisite containers rather than running a bunch of commands. You can also use generated manifest to create kubernetes pods. podman generate is a way to generate pod definition manifest yaml format. Similarly, podman play is to import pod definition and spin up a pod for you.

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Auto Update Container Images for Kubernetes workloads with Argo CD Image Updater

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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It follows the GitOps pattern of using git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. With ArgoCD, application deployments can be automated and updates to application can be made at the simple git commit events without the need of any complicated Continuous Integration and/or Deployment Pipelines.

This is our sixth post in the series of blog post on deploying and managing application with Kubernetes and Argo CD. You can find the series index here.

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Deploy Application with Kustomize Manifests on Kubernetes Clusters with Argo CD

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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It follows the GitOps pattern of using git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. With ArgoCD, application deployments can be automated and updates to application can be made at the simple git commit events without the need of any complicated Continuous Integration and/or Deployment Pipelines.

This is our fifth post in the series of blog post on deploying and managing application with Kubernetes and Argo CD. You can find the series index here.

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Deploy Helm Charts on Kubernetes Clusters with Argo CD

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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It follows the GitOps pattern of using git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. With ArgoCD, application deployments can be automated and updates to application can be made at the simple git commit events without the need of any complicated Continuous Integration and/or Deployment Pipelines.

This is our fourth post in the series of blog post on deploying and managing application with Kubernetes and Argo CD. You can find the series index here.

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