Devops

Kubernetes is very good at reporting desired state. A Deployment can be available while its pods restart every few hours. A cluster can show green nodes while workloads have no disruption budgets, probes, resource limits, or network isolation. Dashboards show signals; they do not necessarily connect them into an operational judgment. That is the gap KubeBuddy tries to fill. The open-source KubeDeck project is a Go-based command-line scanner that connects through an existing Kubernetes context and evaluates cluster health, workloads, security, RBAC, networking, storage, and configuration. It can add provider-specific checks for AKS and GKE and emit terminal, HTML, JSON, and CSV output. There is no controller, Helm release, or long-running agent to install in the cluster. ...

Kubernetes has become so familiar that many teams don’t choose to adopt it anymore; they just start using it. When a new internal API appears, someone sets up an AKS cluster, and within weeks, the team manages node pools, upgrade channels, ingress, identity, policies, observability, and a backlog of Helm charts. None of these decisions are incorrect, but the issue is that the workload might never have required a Kubernetes platform in the first place. ...

From the 21st of June till the 23rd of June the Devopsdays Amsterdam were held in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. There is a first time for everything and for me this I attended the Devopsdays in three roles: Attendee, for me this was the third time I attended the Devopsdays in Pakhuis de Zwijger. (Gold) Sponsor, Luminis was one of the gold sponsors. In 2019 the company I worked for at that moment was also a gold sponsor. Speaker, this was the first time for me to speak at Devopsdays. Devopdays starts with a workshop day and after that two days of sessions. Next to that there is a lot of stuff going on what makes my Devopsdays in my opinion an conference everyone should attend. I will give a recap of some of sessions that I thought were interesting and also some focus on my different roles during the conference. ...