Recent Articles - Kubernetes

Types of Probes in Kubernetes
Types of Probes in Kubernetes
Feb 19, 2022 · 4 min read

It's tempting to use the same health check endpoint for multiple probes in Kubernetes, but the kubelet uses each probe for very different purposes.


Writing Meaningful Health Check Endpoints
Writing Meaningful Health Check Endpoints
Feb 14, 2022 · 6 min read

If your health check endpoints return a hard-coded response then you don't actually know the health of your service.


Installing a Specific Version of Helm
Installing a Specific Version of Helm
Nov 24, 2020 · 4 min read

Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, can be sensitive to the version of Tiller running in cluster, and as a result may require you to install a specific version.


Getting Started With minikube
Getting Started With minikube
Nov 1, 2020 · 4 min read

minikube is a tool for running a Kubernetes clusters for local development, and the setup of it is super simple.


Restarting Deployments in Kubernetes Before v1.15
Restarting Deployments in Kubernetes Before v1.15
Jul 10, 2020 · 2 min read

Restarting resources such as deployments in Kubernetes is a fairly common task, but before v1.15 it wasn't very straight-forward.


Restarting Resources in Kubernetes v1.15+
Restarting Resources in Kubernetes v1.15+
Jul 9, 2020 · 1 min read

Restarting resources such as deployments in Kubernetes is a fairly common task, and starting with Kubernetes v1.15 there's an easy command for it.


Port-Forwarding to Kubernetes
Port-Forwarding to Kubernetes
Jun 22, 2020 · 3 min read

If you're using Kubernetes, it's likely you have services without public ingresses in production, which makes sending test requests to them hard - but Kubernetes offers a number of way to port forward to these services.