Kubernetes
Zabbix Server not running after upgrading to 7.4.0 Paid Members Public
Upgrading a self-hosted Zabbix instance in Kubernetes sounds like a straightforward task, right? That’s what I thought - until I upgraded our Zabbix deployment to version 7.4.0 and was greeted by an all-too-familiar frontend error: “Zabbix server is not running” This post walks through the upgrade process,
k8s resource limits and their edge cases Paid Members Public
In a kubernetes podspec, ressource limts can be quite suprising...
ingress-nginx 1.12 & allow-snippet-annotations Paid Members Public
If you need to use snippet annotations (why?) on ingress-nginx - you'll also need to adjust the annotation filtering.
multus - deadlock state on thick plugin Paid Members Public
Using Multus CNI's 'thick plugin' in Kubernetes can cause pod startup deadlocks due to circular dependencies between pods and the Multus daemon. Switching to the daemonless 'thin plugin' mode effectively resolves this initialization issue.
kubernetes, cgroups v2 and failing health probes Paid Members Public
Running Kubernetes on a systemd-based OS can lead to pods restarting endlessly due to health probe failures, caused by the systemd cgroup driver. Previously, this was fixed by modifying boot options, but a simpler approach is to switch the kubelet to use cgroupfs instead.
Helm's Hidden Quirks: Merging boolean values Paid Members Public
Helm is a powerful tool for manageing Kubernetes applications. Despite its ubiquity in the kubernetes-world, there are some nuances to consider when working with boolean values—especially when merging complex objects.
Can't delete kubernetes namespace (NamespaceDeletionDiscoveryFailure) Paid Members Public
While trying to delete a namespace on a kubernetes cluster I learned that there is a resource type apiservice :-) This post shows how to unblock deletions due orphaned apiservice definitions.
Unexpected behavior of TUN devices in Kubernetes >= 1.31.3 Paid Members Public
Sometimes, security improvements in one project can cause problems in places nobody ever expected. In this case, we had to deal with one of these improvements.
