I wrote about launching Nexus in the Nexus: launch in Kubernetes, and PyPI caching repository configuration post, now I want to add Docker image caching to PyPI, especially since Docker Hub introduces new limits from April 1, 2025 – see Docker Hub usage and limits. We’ll do it as usual: first run manually locally on… Read More »
In Kubernetes, we run GitHub Runner for the build and deploy of our Backend API, see GitHub Actions: Running Actions Runner Controller in Kubernetes. But over time, we noticed that there was too much traffic on the NAT Gateway – see VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki.… Read More »
We continue the migration from Grafana Loki to VictoriaLogs, and the next task is to transfer Recording Rules from Loki to VictoriaLogs and update the alerts. Recording Rules and integration with VMAlert were brought to VictoriaLogs relatively recently, and I haven’t tested this scheme yet. Therefore, we will first do everything by hand to see… Read More »
One day, we looked at our AWS costs on AWS Load Balancers, and understood that we needed to decrease the spends a bit. What we wanted was to have one LoadBalancer, and through it to route requests to different Kubernetes Ingresses and Services in different Namespaces. The first thing that came to mind was either… Read More »
We run GitHub Runners in Kubernetes to build and deploy our Backend API, see GitHub Actions: running the Actions Runner Controller in Kubernetes. But over time, we noticed that there was too much traffic on the NAT Gateway – see VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki. The… Read More »
In the previous post – AWS: VPC Flow Logs – logs to S3 and Grafana dashboard with Loki, we created a Grafana dashboard that displays NAT Gateway traffic usage statistics. What we were interested in there was which Kubernetes Pods use the most bytes, because it directly affects our AWS Costs. And everything appears to… Read More »
Continuing the topic about AWS: VPC Flow Logs, NAT Gateways, and Kubernetes Pods – a detailed overview. There we analyzed how to work with VPC Flow Logs in general, and learned how we can get information about traffic to/from Kubernetes Pods. But there is one problem when using Flow Logs with CloudWatch Logs – the… Read More »
We use GitHub Actions for deployments, and eventually came to the point where we wanted to run its Runners on our own Kubernetes cluster because: self-hosted GitHub Runners are cheaper – in fact, you pay only for the servers that run the jobs we need to run SQL migrations on AWS RDS in AWS VPC… Read More »
Disruption budgets were introduced in version 0.36, and it looks like a very interesting tool to limit Karpenter from recreating WorkerNodes. For example, in my case, we don’t want EC2 instances to be killed during business hours in the US because we have customers there, so we currently have consolidationPolicy=whenEmpty to prevent “unnecessary” deletion of… Read More »
VictoriaLogs is a relatively new system for collecting and analyzing logs, similar to Grafana Loki, but – like VictoriaMetrics compared to vanilla Prometheus – less demanding on CPU/Memory resources. Personally, I’ve been using Grafana Loki for about 5 years, but sometimes I have concerns about it – both in terms of documentation and the overall… Read More »