The Problem: So I tend to get up very early in the morning, maybe 4-5am most days. ‘Sleeping In’ for me is ~6am or later, and that rarely happens. Lately, instead of adding more blog content, I’ve been working on a new site to attach to ShavingTheYak. Its an automated blog feed/aggregator, and its getting […]
Whether you use Terraform or something else to code your EKS cluster configurations, you will have likely run into the following scenario: Hmm – these nodes are old, lets swap them out with a newer instance type. Wait.. Why can’t I just change the instance type in my node group? Or the name, for that […]
I’m not clear on why this took me a few days to figure out. I suppose I was dealing with other requests as they came up, as is the job. Now I wasn’t the person who installed most of our EKS ingresses, but I haven’t taken a ton of time to see how they were […]
Here’s the scenario: Lets say we have a deployment in our kubernetes cluster for pods that do some sort of important processing work. They might be doing something like pulling messages from a queue and then processing uploaded files from your customers. Now if the processing task is quick and there is a way to […]
I recently came up against this topic while trying to solve a bottleneck issue in production. While the end result was still ‘throw cpu at it’, in the process I learned that pod cpu resource settings and how they translate into actual host cpu usage is a bit more of a twisting path than I […]
So I was working on a project that required me to create a custom webhook into a pre-existing service running in our EKS cluster. I needed to use the ingress nginx controller due to needing to create a custom server block for the webhook, and due to the fact that this particular cluster didn’t seem […]