Category Archives: Virtualization

In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual version of something, including virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources.

Kubernetes: monitoring processes with process-exporter
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1 November 2025

We are debugging one issue with memory usage in Kubernetes Pods, and decided to look at the memory and number of processes on the nodes. The problem is that a Kubernetes Pod with Livekit usually consumes about 2 gigabytes of memory, but sometimes there are spikes of up to 10-11 gigabytes, which causes the Pod… Read More »

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AWS: Monitoring AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with CloudWatch
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1 November 2025

Let’s continue our journey with AWS OpenSearch Service. What we have is a small AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with three data nodes, used as a vector store for AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Previous parts: AWS: Introduction to OpenSearch Service as a vector store AWS: Creating an OpenSearch Service cluster and configuring authentication and authorization Terraform:… Read More »

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Terraform: creating an AWS OpenSearch Service cluster and users
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18 September 2025

In the first part, we covered the basics of AWS OpenSearch Service in general and the types of instances for Data Nodes – AWS: Getting Started with OpenSearch Service as a Vector Store. In the second part, we covered access, AWS: Creating an OpenSearch Service Cluster and Configuring Authentication and Authorization. Now let’s write Terraform… Read More »

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AWS: introduction to the OpenSearch Service as a vector store
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15 September 2025

We are currently using AWS OpenSearch Service as a vector store for our RAG with AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base. We will talk more about RAG and Bedrock another time, but today let’s take a look at AWS OpenSearch Service. The task is to migrate our AWS OpenSearch Service Serverless to Managed, primarily due to (surprise)… Read More »

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AWS: creating an OpenSearch Service cluster and configuring authentication and authorization
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15 September 2025

In the previous part, AWS: Getting Started with OpenSearch Service as a Vector Store, we looked at AWS OpenSearch Service in general, figured out how data is organized in it, what shards and nodes are, and what types of instances we actually need for data nodes. The next step is to create a cluster and… Read More »

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Terraform: AWS EKS Terraform module update from version 20.x to version 21.
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6 August 2025

AWS EKS Terraform module version v21.0.0 added support for the AWS Provider Version 6. Documentation – here>>>. The main changes in the AWS EKS module are the replacement of IRSA with EKS Pod Identity for the Karpenter sub-module: Native support for IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) has been removed; EKS Pod Identity is now… Read More »

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Kubernetes: PVC in StatefulSet, and the “Forbidden updates to statefulset spec” error
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22 July 2025

We have a VictoriaLogs Helm chart with a PVC size of 30 GB, which is no longer enough for us, and we need to increase it. But the problem is that .spec.volumeClaimTemplates[*].spec.resources.requests.storage in STS is immutable, that is, we can’t just change the size through values.yaml file, because it will lead to the error“Forbidden: updates… Read More »

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Kubernetes: what are the Kubernetes Operator and CustomResourceDefinition
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21 July 2025

Perhaps everyone has used operators in Kubernetes, for example, PostgreSQL operator, VictoriaMetrics Operator. But what’s going on under the hood? How and to what are CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) applied, and what is an “operator”? And finally, what is the difference between a Kubernetes Operator and a Kubernetes Controller? In the previous part – Kubernetes: Kubernetes APIs,… Read More »

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Kubernetes: Pod resources.requests, resources.limits, and Linux cgroups
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20 July 2025

How exactly do resources.requests and resources.limits in a Kubernetes manifest works “under the hood”, and how exactly will Linux allocate and limit resources for containers? So, in Kubernetes for Pods, we can set two main parameters for CPU and Memory – the spec.containers.resources.requests and spec.containers.resources.limits fields: resources.requests: affects how and where a Pod will be… Read More »

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