K8s

Helm is extremely useful and efficient when it comes to distributing, installing and upgrading applications hosted in Kubernetes. But sometimes you may have a need to patch an existing release and there is a quick way to do that which I would like to share with you today. A scenario I had to face was that I discovered missing PodDisruptionBudget on one of the production deployments and after this has been fixed in the source code I had therefore a need to add it to the existing Helm release to ensure configuration consistency. ...

So, recently I’ve faced a scenario where I got a chance to dig more into different Kubernetes Service types and experiment with those. I would like to share about one of the experiments where I tested several Kubernetes Service types in order to implement proxying of the requests to external services from Kubernetes cluster. Why would proxying to external services from Kubernetes cluster be relevant? There may be multiple reasons for why you would look into setting up this kind of proxying to external services from Kubernetes cluster. ...