It caugt me a little by surprise last week when Microsoft released a Service Mesh: We are beyond excited to introduce Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight and extensible #servicemesh that implements @SMI_spec and runs on @kubernetesio @EnvoyProxy! Check out what we’ve been up to here:https://t.co/l6fy4OUorO — Open Service Mesh (@openservicemesh) August 5, 2020 The […]
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Maintaining client IP on a Service in the Azure Kubernetes Service
Did you know that if you’re running a service in Kubernetes without additional configuration that you lose the client’s IP address? If you’re answer was ‘no’, you’re in the same boat I was last weekend. Tim Hockin from Google made a nice presentation about connecting into a Kubernetes cluster that opened my eyes to this […]
Run Kubernetes clusters locally using kind
How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to ‘test something new’? How often have you created a new Kubernetes cluster to start learning about new functionalities? In my case, I do this pretty frequently. I very frequently spin up (and down) Azure Kubernetes clusters. This approach comes with two downsides however: it takes […]
How to automatically start the Docker daemon on WSL2
I like running Docker containers in WSL2. However, one piece of nuisance for me has been that the Docker daemon doesn’t automatically start, and there’s no ‘easy’ way to start it automatically. Since WSL2 doesn’t run systemd, you cannot use systemd to automatically start Docker as you typically would in a Linux system. In this […]
How to sync a GitHub fork
I recently needed to sync a GitHub repo I forked to the latest status of the original fork. This is easy to do, but you have to know which buttons to push. To start, open the forked repo in Github. You should see a mention that this branch is behind the original branch. Next to […]