Over the past year I’ve taken a step back and evaluated how we build and deploy web applications. When we talk about modernising web applications people immediately jump to the cloud-native catch phrase. It ramps up pretty quick, it spirels quickly into kubernetes, docker, Paas, Ingress, load balancing, service mesh and site reliability engineering. For […]
In this post I will show you how to create your very own Highly available K8s cluster for just R90 a month…the cheapest I could find. For this we will be using k3s, a lightweight kubernetes distribution created by rancher labs. So lightweight, that the requirements for the server nodes is only 512MB of RAM […]
Found this K8S troubleshooting guide from learnk8s.io
These days many api’s over HTTP that we query return JSON. That is great and all, it is much more readable for humans than XML. What about when there is a large set of JSON and you only need a small part of it? There are different ways of doing it, like converting the json […]
In Rancher 2.1.0 they added support for SAML authentication with Keycloak. What this means is Rancher will use a Keycloak realm to authenticate users. This means that there is one place to manage users for a host of your applications. It also means that if they have logged on to the realm with their browser […]