Microk8s
Using a Microk8s Kubernetes Ingress as a Reverse Proxy for External Web Servers
26/05/21 22:52 Filed in: Systems Administation
Fairly early in the Kubernetes journey you are told about Ingress Controllers. They take an incoming connection (usually HTTP or HTTPS) and direct it to one or more services based on the path referred to in the incoming connection. In the case of the NGINX Ingress Controller it is literally a reverse proxy that is used as a frontend for services.
If you happen to need a reverse proxy (for example to provide authentication for your Let's Encrypt SSL certificate automatic renewal) it looks tantalisingly like it should be easy to do this from your Microk8s cluster. And with the benefit of MetalLB (Bare metal Load Balancer) it should be possible for this to keep working if one of the nodes should fail.
This turned out to be far harder than expected. Only by combining a lot of separate examples and parts was it possible to accomplish this. Furthermore, this functionality is only really intended for use while you are in process of migrating an external service into a Kubernetes cluster.
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If you happen to need a reverse proxy (for example to provide authentication for your Let's Encrypt SSL certificate automatic renewal) it looks tantalisingly like it should be easy to do this from your Microk8s cluster. And with the benefit of MetalLB (Bare metal Load Balancer) it should be possible for this to keep working if one of the nodes should fail.
This turned out to be far harder than expected. Only by combining a lot of separate examples and parts was it possible to accomplish this. Furthermore, this functionality is only really intended for use while you are in process of migrating an external service into a Kubernetes cluster.
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Node not ready under microk8s
18/10/20 20:00 Filed in: Systems Administation
I have just started monitoring my experimental Microk8s cluster via Icinga2 (a topic for another day) and encountered a critcical error. One of my nodes is not ready. This isn't the first time I have run into this issue, but this time I decided to fix it the right way i.e. diagnose what went wrong and make the minimal correction required to fix it.
Although there is nothing earth shattering or difficult in this post, what was surprising is that the answer did not turn up early in the search results if you Google:
A bit of thinking was required to figure out the solution. Hopefully this post will make the solution more easily found. Read More...
Although there is nothing earth shattering or difficult in this post, what was surprising is that the answer did not turn up early in the search results if you Google:
kubelet has stopped posting node status microk8s
A bit of thinking was required to figure out the solution. Hopefully this post will make the solution more easily found. Read More...
Kuber - a nice app for your Kubernetes cluster
24/08/20 18:27 Filed in: Systems Administation
Kuber
Kuber (http://getkuber.com) is a neat little app form monitoring and controlling your cluster (available for both iOS in the App Store).
But there is a tiny hurdle to getting started … it is not obvious where your api server is on MicroK8s.
All you need to know is it is on your cluster host on port 16443 with the default install on MicroK8s and with that you are ready to go Read More...
Ingress Server Crashing on microk8s
26/06/20 14:26 Filed in: Systems Administation
I have Microk8s Kubernetes running on an old server. Apparently one of the release versions of the ingress service needed sse-4.2 and would crash without it. The problem is described well at https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/23626. Unfortunately the solution given assumes as bit of Kubernetes knowledge. Here I fill in some of the gaps. Read More...