This is the third part of deploying an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster with Terraform, in which we will add Karpenter to our cluster. I’ve decided to post this separately because it’s quite a long post. And in the next and final (hopefully!), the fourth part, we will add the rest – all kinds of… Read More »
Traffic in AWS is generally quite an interesting and sometimes complicated thing, I once wrote about it in the AWS: Cost optimization – services expenses overview and traffic costs in AWS. Now, it’s time to return to this topic again. So, what’s the problem: in AWS Cost Explorer, I’ve noticed that we have an increase… Read More »
I updated my Arch Linux yesterday, and for the first time in 9 years of using this system, I encountered an error when after a reboot the system could not mount a disk: ERROR: device UUID not found. mount: /new_root: can’t find UUID. ERROR: Failed to mount UUID on real root. You are now being… Read More »
So, Terraform is great, but so far in our project, we have decided to create the first AWS EKS clusters using the AWS CDK, because firstly, it is already on the project, and secondly, it is very interesting to try a new tool. Today we will see what came out of it, and how a… Read More »
After running our self-hosted GitLab in production, we faced a bug: during git clone/pull/push operations, the request sometimes hung for 1-2 minutes. It looked like some kind of “floating” bug, that is, it could normally work 5 times, and then hangs once. The issues gitlab-shell timeouts For example, one time git clone works well: [simterm]… Read More »
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 »
During system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I got internet disruption, and on the next upgrade I got the error from pacman. It sounds like “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume“: [simterm] … ==> Retrieving sources… -> Downloading clightd-5.6.tar.gz… ** Resuming transfer from byte position 12288 % Total % Received % Xferd… Read More »
During an SSH connection, I started getting the “Too many authentication failures” error message from a remote host. The error, and its cause Actually, the root cause is simple: during establishing a new SSH connection, the local ssh-client first tries to use keys, that are loaded by the local ssh-agent, and only after that will… Read More »
We have Github runners in our AWS Elastic Kubernetes service cluster, that are used to build Docker images and deploy them with Helm or ArgoCD. On the first helm install run in a Github runner’s Pod, we are getting the “x509: certificate signed by unknown authority” error: [simterm] # helm –kube-apiserver=https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local list Error: Kubernetes cluster unreachable:… Read More »
This post isn’t an overview of the AWS Cost Explorer service, but just a quick example of how to detect costs for your AWS account and its services. So, when I came back from the vacation, I noticed that we’ve paid more than usually for the AWS CloudWatch for August – almost 50 dollars per… Read More »