Author Archives: setevoy

DevOps IT Ring

8 June 2021
 

 💥9 June, 17:00 — IT Ring “DevOps” | Online/Offline. 6 speakers will come together in one IT Ring to determine the real functions of DevOps specialists and discuss what their cooperation with programmers should be. Topics: 📌 “Who are DevOps: people or tools?” 📌 “The perfect Architect – DevOps or developer?” 📌 “If you have… Read More »

DevSecOps Build-up from Cloud Builders

1 June 2021
 

  Cloud Builders Community invites to join the DevSecOps Build-up to discuss the best DevSecOps practices with experts from Microsoft, Pulumi, Stand Out In Tech, and Intellias. Speakers lineup: Continuously Implementing DevSecOps in AWS, — Volodymyr Shynkar, Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at Intellias. Join the fireside chat in Cloud AMA (ask me anything) format with… Read More »

ArgoCD: declarative Projects, Applications, and ArgoCD deploy from Jenkins

19 May 2021
 

 An application, cluster, or repository can be created In ArgoCD from its WebUI, CLI, or by writing a Kubernetes manifest that then can be passed to kubectl to create resources. For example, Applications are Kubernetes CustomResources and described in Kubernetes CRD applications.argoproj.io: [simterm] $ kubectl get crd applications.argoproj.io NAME CREATED AT applications.argoproj.io 2020-11-27T15:55:29Z [/simterm] And… Read More »

ArgoCD: Okta integration, and user groups

17 May 2021
 

 In the previous post ArgoCD: users, access, and RBAC we’ve checked how to manage users and their permissions in ArgoCD, now let’s add an SSO authentification. The idea is that we don’t add user accounts locally in the ArgoCD’s ConfigMap, but instead will use our Okta users databases and Okta will perform their authentication. And… Read More »

Github: Github Actions overview and ArgoCD deployment example

7 May 2021
 

 Github Actions actually is very similar to the TravisCI, but have much more closer integration with Github, and even its interface is included in the Github WebUI: So, let’s take a closer look at its abilities, how to use it, and in the following posts will deploy its self-hosted runners to a Kubernetes cluster and will… Read More »

Kubernetes: spec.ports[0].nodePort: Forbidden: may not be used when `type` is ‘ClusterIP’

5 May 2021
 

 During applications deploy from a Helm chart described in the Istio: shared Ingress/AWS ALB, Helm chart with conditions, Istio, and ExternalDNS we are getting the “spec.ports[0].nodePort: Forbidden: may not be used when `type` is ‘ClusterIP’” error. Let’s reproduce it and find solutions with kubectl and Helm to solve it. The “spec.ports[0].nodePort: Forbidden: may not be… Read More »

Istio: shared Ingress/AWS ALB, Helm chart with conditions, Istio, and ExternalDNS

27 April 2021
 

 Let’s proceed with our journey with Istio. Previous parts: Istio: an overview and running Service Mesh in Kubernetes Istio: external AWS Application LoadBalancer and Istio Ingress Gateway Besides Istio, in this post, we will also configure ExternalDNS, see the Kubernetes: update AWS Route53 DNS from an Ingress for details. Everything described below is a kind… Read More »

Istio: a cause and solution of the “SQLSTATE Connection refused”

23 April 2021
 

 During starting a pod we got errors “SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused’” in two different applications – a РНР/Yii and NodeJS. In the РHР/Yii it’s coming when we are running a pre-install hook during deployment with Helm and on the MySQL Migration Job execution: Yii Migration Tool (based on Yii v2.0.38)Exception ‘yii\db\Exception’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002]… Read More »

Kubernetes: metrics-server – “401 Unauthorized” amd “kubelet stopped posting node status”

23 April 2021
 

 On our AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service Dev cluster, we got a couple of namespaees hanging i nthe Termination state. “401 Unauthorized”, response: “Unauthorized” Remembering a similar issue where the root cause was the metrics-server (see the Kubernetes: namespace hangs in Terminating and metrics-server non-obviousness post for details), the first thing I did was to check… Read More »