Category Archives: HOWTO’s

Grafana Loki: architecture and running in Kubernetes with AWS S3 storage and boltdb-shipper
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7 January 2023

The last time I worked with Loki when it was still in Beta, and it looked much simpler then than it does now. In the new project, there is no logging system at all, and since we all love the Grafana stack, we also decided to use Loki for logging. Although to be honest, I… Read More »

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Prometheus: Kubernetes endpoints monitoring with blackbox-exporter
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11 December 2022

The blackbox-exporter is an exporter that can monitor various endpoints – URLs on the Internet, your LoadBalancers in AWS, or Services in a Kubernetes cluster, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Blackbox Exporter can give you HTTP response time statistics, response codes, information on SSL certificates, etc. What are we going to do in this… Read More »

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Pritunl: running VPN in Kubernetes
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5 October 2022

Pritunl is a VPN server with a bunch of advanced security and access control features. In fact, it is just a wrapper over OpenVPN, adding such Access Control Lists to it in the form of Organizations, users, and routes. The task is to deploy a Pritunl test instance in Kubernetesб so we can take a closer… Read More »

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Kubernetes: Minikube, and a LoadBalancer in the Pending status
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5 October 2022

After running Pritunl in Minikube, it is not possible to connect to the VPN: … 2022-10-03 13:50:32 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]194.168.3.100:1194 2022-10-03 13:50:32 UDP link local: (not bound) 2022-10-03 13:50:32 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]194.168.3.100:1194 … Check its Kubernetes Service: [simterm] $ kubectl -n pritunl-local get svc NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE… Read More »

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PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes, and its Prometheus monitoring
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23 September 2022

So, we’ve launched Druid, see Apache Druid: Overview, Running in Kubernetes, and Monitoring with Prometheus . So far, a local Apache Derby database is used as the default storage for metadata . Next, we will switch Druid to PostgreSQL, and later we will remove ZooKeeper from the cluster setup. To begin with, let’s start a PostgreSQL cluster in Kubernetes, add… Read More »

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Apache Druid: overview, running in Kubernetes and monitoring with Prometheus
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18 September 2022

Apache Druid is a columnar database, focused on working with large amounts of data, combining the features and benefits of Time-Series Database, Data Warehouse, and a search engine. The general task is to set up monitoring of the Druid cluster in Kubernetes, so at first, we will see what it is in general and how… Read More »

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