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: vertical Pods scaling with Vertical Pod Autoscaler
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1 May 2023

In addition to the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), which creates additional pods if the existing ones start using more CPU/Memory than configured in the HPA limits, there is also the Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), which works according to a different scheme: instead of horizontal scaling, i.e. increasing the number of Pods, it changes resources.requests of a Pod, which… Read More »

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Prometheus: running Pushgateway on Kubernetes with Helm and Terraform
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28 April 2023

We have a lot of AWS Lambda functions in the project, and developers want to be able to send metrics to our Prometheus to add their own alerts and graphs in Grafana. For this, the functions use the Prometheus library, which allows these metrics to be created (see Prometheus: Building a Custom Prometheus Exporter in… Read More »

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AWS: security – Instance Metadata Service v1 vs IMDS v2, Kubernetes Pod and Docker containers
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24 April 2023

Instance metadata (IMDS – Instance Metadata Service) – data about an EC2 instance, such as information about AMI, IP, hostname, etc. You can also add User Data to Instance Metadata to store some parameters, which can then be retrieved inside the instance. See Instance metadata and user data and Instance metadata categories. From the beginning of the IMDS,… Read More »

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Knative: Serverless for Kubernetes – an overview and launch in Minikube
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9 April 2023

Knative is a system that allows you to use the Serverless development model in Kubernetes. In essence, Knative can be imagined as another level of abstraction that allows developers not to dive into the details of deployment, scaling, and networking in “vanilla” Kubernetes. The development of Knative itself was started at Google with the participation of… Read More »

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GitLab: monitoring – Prometheus, metrics, and Grafana dashboard
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12 March 2023

So, let’s continue our journey with migrating GitLab to Kubernetes. See previous parts: GitLab: Components, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Launching from the Helm Chart in Minikube GitLab: Helm chart of values, dependencies, and deployment in Kubernetes with AWS S3 GitLab: міграція даних з GitLab cloud та процес backup-restore у self-hosted версії в Kubernetes In general, everything is working,… Read More »

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Grafana Loki: alerts from the Loki Ruler and labels from logs
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12 March 2023

For general information on Grafana Loki, see the Grafana Loki: architecture and running in Kubernetes with AWS S3 storage and boltdb-shipper. Among other services that make up Loki, there is a separate service called ruler that is responsible for working with alerts that can be generated directly from logs. The idea is very simple: create… Read More »

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Prometheus: Building a Custom Prometheus Exporter in Python
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25 February 2023

Prometheus has many ready-to-use exporters, but sometimes you may need to collect your own metrics. For this, Prometheus provides client libraries that we can use to generate metrics with the necessary labels. Such an exporter can be included directly in the code of your application, or it can be run as a separate service that will poll one… Read More »

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GitLab: Helm chart of values, dependencies, and deployment in Kubernetes with AWS S3
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4 February 2023

We continue our engagement with GitLab and its deployment in Kubernetes. The first part – GitLab: Components, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Launching from the Helm Chart in Minikube, and now let’s get ready to deploy to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service. What will we do and where: deploy to AWS from the Helm-chart, with some test env Kubernetes –… Read More »

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GitLab: Components, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Launching from the Helm Chart in Minikube
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2 February 2023

As GitLab recently changed the policy of providing free access, and now only 5 users will be available for the Free subscription, we decided to move to the self-hosted version. In general, they have interesting terms with the license: the price depends on the number of users, you can buy it for at least one… Read More »

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