Tag: Kubernetes

Another blog on docker depreciation in Kubernetes and what needs to be done about it

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In the Kubernetes release v1.20, the development team has marked dockershim as deprecated. There was initially some shock and confusion, as it was perceived that team is moving away from docker completely, however that is not the case. As its turns out, what the team is doing, is steering the Kubernetes away from the proprietary parts of Docker or Docker Engine or just simply called Docker. The Docker Engine is further comprised of many different sub-components like dockerd, containerd, runc etc., many of which were initially developed by Docker Inc and then given away to community. These were later standardized and maintained by the community.

The Kubernetes community has written a detailed blog post about deprecation with a dedicated FAQ page for it. This blog post is being written to understand the impact and what needs to be done about it. Depending on how do you use Docker, think and understand about it, you may or may not have to do anything about it or get worried about sleepless nights.

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Setup Local Kubernetes Cluster with Docker, WSL2 and KinD – Part 2

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In first part of this post, we setup WSL2, Docker Desktop, Enabled Integration of WSL2 with Docker, Setup KinD cluster and spin up a single node and multi node cluster. Since 6 nodes HA cluster was too much for our learning needs, lets first delete it using kind delete cluster --name multicluster and provision a fresh single node cluster for us.

Setup Kubernetes Dashboard

Some people like to see using visual mode, to get on started with things. For this, we can use Kubernetes Dashboard. To set it up, we can use below commands:

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Setup Local Kubernetes Cluster with Docker, WSL2 and KinD

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Kubernetes has raced ahead of other container management platforms in last few years. However there remain difficulties in setup and running multi node clusters for developers to test their container workloads. Many organizations come around this by provisioning separate kubernetes clusters for devs. Some other go to the extent of provisioning one kubernetes cluster per developer. However it soon becomes additional hassle for devs and ops alike and also keeps contributing to company’s rising cost.

Minikube is one of solutions that can be used to solve this scenario but minikube is limited to single node setup. But to gain Kubernetes experience, most need to run multi node solutions or clusters. KinD is a tool which can be used for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container nodes. KinD was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

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Change TimeZone in Docker and OCI compliant Containers

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By default, Docker and Container uses UTC timezone. When container engines like Podman, Docker or CRI-O run containers, they pull down the specified OCI image from a container registry. The container image is usually built with a hardcoded link from /etc/localtime to one timezone. Once the image is pulled, the container engine just launches the container based on the hardcoded time zone. This means that your container running in London could be reporting that it is running in New York or Singapore, depending on where the image was built. Depending on your application and sometimes to meet certain audit requirements, it might be necessary for you to control the timezone in the containers.

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Run Azure DevOps Private Agents in Kubernetes Clusters

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Since in last post, we discussed on how to run Azure Pipelines agents as docker containers and configure them accordingly, the next step would be to run them on the Kubernetes platform. This kubernetes cluster can be on-premise and/or cloud and could be self managed or managed by the cloud service provider itself.

One of the reasons you may want to run them on Kubernetes is because you want better utilization of your kubernetes cluster. Another reason might be to leverage your existing knowledge of the kubernetes platform and work on it. Another reason would be to not use Microsoft hosted agents, as by default you would get only 1800 minutes of agent time to utilize, for free accounts.
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Configure CI/CD for dockerized apps using VSTS and deploy to AKS

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n this blog post, we’ll discuss how to configure CI/CD for dockerized apps using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and deploy to a Linux based kubernetes cluster in Azure Container Services (ACS). For building dockerized app, we’ll use .NET core and build a linux based docker image. Also we’ll be using Azure Container Services to deploy Linux based Kubernetes cluster and Azure Container Registry for providing docker registry.

Deploy Kubernetes cluster on ACS

For this, please refer to this blog post here.

Deploy Azure Container Registry

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Deploy kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service from Ubuntu based build server

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Azure Container Service is an offering from Microsoft which makes it simple to create, configure, and manage a cluster of virtual machines that are preconfigured to run containerized applications.  The following guide is based on steps mentioned in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/kubernetes/container-service-kubernetes-walkthrough but deviates a little. First, the guide is based on using Azure Cloud Shell which creates two issues. In my experience, this cloud shell is not ready for prime time usage as you will keep getting issues like authentication failure, for some reason the shell will expire after every 20 mins, etc. Also CI/CD cannot be build on top of the cloud shell.

Most likely scenario would be using a CI/CD tool like Jenkins, VSTS etc. using a custom agent and then you would need to run shell commands for deploying containers. In this blog post, we’ll examine how to prepare a ubuntu based workstation for this and deploy a kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service.

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Create a kubernetes cluster on CentOS

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What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes, or k8s or “kube”, if you’re into brevity, is an open source platform that automates Linux container operations. It eliminates many of the manual processes involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications. In other words, you can cluster together groups of hosts running Linux containers, and Kubernetes helps you easily and efficiently manage those clusters. These clusters can span hosts across public, private, or hybrid clouds.

Kubernetes was originally developed and designed by engineers at Google. Google was one of the early contributors to Linux container technology and has talked publicly about how everything at Google runs in containers. (This is the technology behind Google’s cloud services.)
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