Kubernetes Tag

12 Jan 2021

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Our Tech Stack 2020

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I last wrote about our tech stack 2 years ago. There hasn’t been a huge change. We’ve been moving slow and steady. Our migration from PHP/Yii to JavaScript/React is not yet complete but we’re slowly getting there. 3 years on and we’re 40% done. Migrating…

22 Aug 2019

2

Kubernetes upgrading from autoscaling/v2beta1 to autoscaling/v2beta2

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We use a HorizontalPodAutoscaler Kubernetes resource to scale Pods that work off items from our AWS SQS queues. We found the scale-up to be very aggressive and wondered whether the new version would help. I couldn’t find any documention about the syntax change in v2beta2…

14 Aug 2018

0

Working around the lack of volumes-from in Kubernetes

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We have been running containerised apps since early 2014 so in theory, moving to Kubernetes should be easy. The problem is that we currently make use of the –volumes-from docker flag to share volumes between containers of the same app. For example, a common pattern…

12 Jul 2018

0

EKS – best instance type to use as worker nodes optimising for price per IP address

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We are playing with the new Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes from Amazon (EKS) and have found it interesting that instead of using a overlay network like we have been used to in previous Kubernetes experiments, they are assigning IP addresses to each Pod via…