Cloud

Linux kernel keyrings, container isolation and maybe some kerberos Members Public

On a recent project I've been stumbling on the case that kerberos tickets have been inadvertently shared across containers on a node - which obviously caught my attention as I'm not keen on sharing such secrets across workloads. This post describes why this happens and what to do to prevent this.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Kubernetes

nginx ingress controller cannot load default-ssl-certificate Members Public

nginx ingress controller supports scoping to namespaces. This can be an issue with the default-tls-certificate in case this is not part of the scoped namespaces.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Container

Terraform - transform values of a map Members Public

If you're developer, you might wonder about control structures in terraforms declarative language. Some things need to think about the corner, some things are more straight forward than expected. Second applies to using for loops to map values.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Cloud

Service accounts in kubernetes 1.24 Members Public

Kubernetes 1.24 changed the way serviceaccounttokens are presented by default on the cluster itself. If you need to retrieve the token, you mostly use a secret for this. This guide shows how to do this in kubernetes >= 1.24.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Container

terraform - use nullable in variables for default values Members Public

Writing terraform makes it easy to split code into modules. To avoid setting default values on each layer of the stack, use nullable to provide a way to fallback to the module's own default value.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Azure