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Scaling out a Kubernetes Cluster - 2024 edition
Dec 31, 2023 (Last modified: Jan 8, 2024)kubernetes containers cka ·
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This is an updated version of my blog post from 2020 on how to scale out a Kubernetes cluster on virtual machines. In this version we use Kubernetes version 1.28 installed on Ubuntu VMs. We'll see how to configure HAProxy as a load balancer for the kube-proxy service on the control plane nodes, and eventually how to add more control plane nodes and workers to the cluster to make it highly available

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Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster on Virtual Machines - 2024 edition
Dec 29, 2023 (Last modified: May 30, 2024)kubernetes containers cka k8s ·
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This is an updated version of my blog post from 2020 on how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on virtual machines. In this version we install Kubernetes version 1.28 on Ubuntu VMs with containerd as the container runtime, and Calico as the CNI

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CKAD Exam Study Resources
Jan 19, 2021 (Last modified: Jan 30, 2021)kubernetes k8s ckad containers ·
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Here' you'll find a list of blog posts covering preparations for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. I've also a collection of study notes for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam which you can find here This page will be updated as content gets created First the current (as of Jan …

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CKA Exam Study Resources
Dec 31, 2020 (Last modified: Feb 25, 2024)kubernetes k8s cka containers ·
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Here' you'll find a list of blog posts covering preparations for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. I've also a collection of study notes for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam which you can find here This page will be updated as content gets created Update Jan 2024: Note that …

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Upgrading a Kubernetes Cluster
Dec 30, 2020 (Last modified: Jan 29, 2024)kubernetes containers cka ·
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In this post we'll take a look at how to upgrade a Kubernetes cluster to a new version

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Scaling Out a Kubernetes Cluster with more VM nodes
Aug 14, 2020 (Last modified: Dec 31, 2023)kubernetes containers cka ·
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This is a write up of the steps needed for setting up a simple Kubernetes cluster on VMs which I'm using for preparations towards the CKA exam

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Setting Up a Kubernetes Cluster on virtual machines
Aug 8, 2020 (Last modified: Dec 30, 2023)kubernetes containers cka ·
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This is a write up of the steps needed for setting up a simple Kubernetes cluster on VMs which I'm using for preparations towards the CKA exam

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Running Grafana on the Red Hat Openshift Container Platform
Mar 19, 2018 (Last modified: May 3, 2025)containers docker grafana influxdb openshift powercli redhat vsphere ·
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Last year we started building our own solution for Performance Monitoring of our Infrastructure platform with the focus on the VMware vSphere environment. The components used for this solution is PowerCLI for extracting the metrics, InfluxDB for storing the metrics, and Grafana for presenting the metrics. I did a Blog …

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