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How to Set Up Kubernetes Monitoring with Loki
I switched most of my log stacks from Elasticsearch to Loki a while back, and the reasoning was…
How to Use NetworkPolicies in Kubernetes
By default, Kubernetes networking is completely flat — every pod in a cluster can talk to every other…
How to Set Up Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Custom Metrics in Kubernetes
CPU-based autoscaling is the default everyone starts with, and it’s also frequently the wrong signal. I’ve managed services…
How to Implement Node Affinity in Kubernetes
If you’ve ever run a mixed workload cluster — some nodes with GPUs, some in a specific availability…
How to Set Up Kubernetes Monitoring with Thanos
Prometheus is great until it isn’t. It runs beautifully for a single cluster with a few weeks of…
How to Use Taints and Tolerations in Kubernetes
The first time I really understood taints and tolerations was after a bad afternoon where a batch analytics…
How to Set Up Multi-AZ Clusters with Kubernetes on AWS
A single-AZ Kubernetes cluster is a ticking time bomb dressed up as a cost saving. I learned this…
How to Implement Job Objects in Kubernetes
I used to run one-off data migration scripts as bare Pods, back before I understood why that was…
How to Set Up a Kubernetes Development Environment with Kind
For a long time I tested manifests directly against a shared dev cluster, which meant every broken YAML…
How to Use VolumeSnapshots in Kubernetes
The moment VolumeSnapshots actually mattered to me was during a botched database migration where a bad script wiped…