Container
Kubernetes, blockDevices & denied permissions Paid Members Public
Mounting (block)devices on containers might result in permission errors (Permission denied) if pods have applied a securityContext. It's possible to configure this on containerd and get both of best worlds - fast device access and reduced permissions on containers.
Get filesystem access using an ephemeral container in kubernetes Paid Members Public
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!
Choosing a postgres operator Paid Members Public
This post describes my journey on the selection of the postgres operator that matches our demand.
postgres - database has no actual collation version, but a version was recorded Paid Members Public
Upgrading a major postgres version using containers with different C libraries caused me some headaches because I go an error "database has no actual collation version, but a version was recorded" - and I did not fix it. At least I can give a hint on why it happend and how you could avoid it.
postgres - upgrading postgres with timescaledb running in a container Paid Members Public
Uprading postgres with timescaledb caused me some issues related to the collation. After some retries I've found a reliable way to doing the upgrade. This post describes the steps to be done.
Why you should use rook ceph on kubernetes (onprem) Paid Members Public
If you run kubernetes on your own, you need to provide a storage solution with it. We are using ceph (operated through rook). This article gives some short overview about it's benefits and some pro's and con's of it.
Linux kernel keyrings, container isolation and maybe some kerberos Paid 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.
What happens if you ask kubernetes for 1254051 replicas Paid Members Public
One of our playgrounds recently had an incident which caused control-plane to go out-of-memory. This article shows how to diagnose and especially how to fix or event prevent this.
