Kubernetes on Zachary Loeber's Blog

Understanding Organizational Secrets

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s face it, IT often struggles with secrets management. From API keys that need to be registered/rotated, certificates that need to be requested/renewed, LDAP/AD credentials that need to be maintained, password complexity requirements to be enforced, and more. It can be cognitively difficult to manage the various secrets for a single project let alone an entire organization. This discussion will help define the credential categories and the tools used to manage them.

2021 - IT Industry Predictions

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:27:05 -0500

Wild speculations on hot trends to follow in information technology for 2021 and beyond.

The Declarative Mindset

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:05:58 -0500

I’m going to wax poetic on the virtues of declarative thinking within the IT industry. Along the way we will go over some definitions and introduce the pseudo-declarative manifest and how it can add value to a project.

Aws Testing With Localstack on Kubernetes

Thu, 21 May 2020 09:22:20 -0500

Testing out your AWS DevOps tricks in a local Kubernetes instance with localstack is pretty easy to do.

Libvirt Terraform Kubernetes Lab

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:22:48 -0500

I found out that it is relatively easy to setup a local Kubernetes cluster in Linux using terraform and the libvirt provider.

Kubernetes API Specs

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:47:59 -0500

Can you quickly list out all the available pod security policy attributes on Kubernetes? How about listing the autoscaling apiVersions along with their spec attributes?

DevOps Patterns

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:33:38 -0600

Many standard DevOps patterns are well known at this point. Advances in technology, cloud computing, and workload orchestration in IT have heralded a new generation of DevOps engineer and tooling to meet modern business challenges. In this article we are going to attempt to surface and give name to a few patterns as it relates to the emerging realm of pipelines as code, declarative deployments, multi-cloud, and more.

Kubernetes App Deployments with Terraform

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:31:40 -0500

Deploying applications via the kubernetes terraform provider is a viable solution for some workloads.

Managed Kubernetes Idiosyncracies

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:27:15 -0600

Managed Kuberentes services allow you to dive into Kubernetes quickly. But even a managed kubernetes cluster requires more thought and care than one may expect.

Helm 3 Namespace Creation

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:46:26 -0600

Helm 3 was released and works great except that it no longer creates namespaces for your deployments. Here is one solution along with alternatives worth looking into.

Some Cool Kubernetes Tools

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:59:43 -0600

Are you working with kubernetes regularly? There are so many tools out there it can be difficult to know which ones to use. Here are a few of them I’ve found to be useful but may have flown under your radar.

DevOps – Automating Kubernetes Deployments

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:49:46 +0000

If you are deploying your own Kubernetes clusters you already know that:

Kubernetes is hard

But there is hope!

There are a few great projects to keep an eye on in this space. I’ve covered some of them in an article you can read on the Lumen.

Cheers!