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Daniel Nachtrub

Daniel Nachtrub

Kind of likes computers. Linux foundation certified: LFCS / CKA / CKAD / CKS. Microsoft certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert & Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Multus - pod stuck in terminating state

Multus - pod stuck in terminating state

Having multus in place, pods might be stuck in starting or terminating state if you made a mistake in the config.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Kubernetes
Get filesystem access using an ephemeral container in kubernetes

Get filesystem access using an ephemeral container in kubernetes

Sometimes you need to access a containers filesystem but the container itself is eventually distroless or does not offer any shell. Here's how to access the filesystem anyway using ephemeral containers!

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Cloud
Using AKS kubectl (kubelogin) on headless systems or pipelines

Using AKS kubectl (kubelogin) on headless systems or pipelines

Running kubectl on pipelines with interactive authentication is somewhat non-optimal :-) Let's make it better without using long-living tokens.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Azure
Choosing a postgres operator

Choosing a postgres operator

This post describes my journey on the selection of the postgres operator that matches our demand.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Kubernetes
SAML tokens and too much accuracy on clients

SAML tokens and too much accuracy on clients

Having multiple clients not being able to log in we discovered that our ADFS tokens NotBefore date is maybe too accurate for some very picky clients. Let's add some tolerance.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Windows
Manually remove a member from etcd

Manually remove a member from etcd

Recently, I needed to rollback a kubernetes control-plane node to an older snapshot. This cause (obviously) that etcd could not operate anymore in the etcd cluster. The approach in this scenario is to remove the etcd node from the cluster and add it again. The removal of it is rather

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Ubuntu 22.04 (or 21.10), kubernetes & cgroups v2

Ubuntu 22.04 (or 21.10), kubernetes & cgroups v2

On some of our systems we've recently upgraded Ubuntu to 22.04 LTS (from 20.04 LTS). And one thing that has been problematic afterwards is that containers kept crashing - or to be more exact: the containers have been killed because the probes failed. This affected cilium

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Using crun as container runtime

Using crun as container runtime

Most of you will be aware that runc is one of the (currently) most commonly used container runtimes. In this image you can see runc is available besides other runtimes like kata of firecracker. If you need stronger isolation you might also be awaer of gVisor. However - there'

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub