On the 23rd and 24th of February the Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) were organised by the Dutch Kubernetes meetup group backup by the CNCF. The first KCD of its kind was organised in 2019 in the Netherlands. Nowadays it is an CNCF supported event organised by the local community in a country. There are KCD events …
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If you want to try out Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on your VMware environment, you can use the Demo Appliance for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid from William Lam. Version 1.1.3 just has been released. This is a Virtual Appliance that pre-bundles all required dependencies to help customers in learning and deploying standalone Tanzu …
Read MoreThe engineers from VMware created a new cool fling, Kubewise. If you want to get in contact with the engineers who created it or download it, go to https://flings.vmware.com/kubewise. You can run this tool on Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Apple Macbook. Summary Kubewise is a simple multi-platform desktop client for …
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If you install k3s with the default settings it also installs Traefik as a load balancer. Traefik also offers a dashboard which is very easy to enable. If you go on your k3s machines to the path /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests you can find their traefik.yaml. To enable the Traefik dashboard you have to add …
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As I already explained in my earlier post, this was my first KubeCon | CloudNativeCon that I attended. What I liked about KubeCon was the diversity in sessions and that it was often a difficult choice per time slot which session to attend. For me this congress was next to attending sessions also about networking with …
Read MoreIn my post about first experience with k3s I blogged about setting up my k3s based cluster on Raspberry PI's. Since that post I have added two more nodes Raspberry Pi's and also updated to the 0.3.0 version of k3s. 1pi@k3s-master-1:~ $ kubectl get nodes 2NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION 3k3s-master-1 Ready master 4h11m …
Read MoreRancher has released v0.2.0.of k3s. Information of the new release is in this article. As soon as I have some time and I have added two extra nodes to the cluster, I'm going to add the cluster to my Rancher server. I have upgraded my Raspberry Pi's to v0.2.0. The process of upgrading is really simple. Just download the …
Read MoreRancher introduced alsmost week ago k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes Distribution. In the YouTube video below you hear Shannon Williams and Darren Shepherd from Rancher talk about K3S, what it is, the usecases and demo of K3S. https://youtu.be/5-5t672vFi4 k3sis a fully compliant, production-grade Kubernetes distribution …
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