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Finding enabled admission plugins on the Kubernetes API server

I needed to verify the enabled admission plugins on the Kubernetes api server. While working on Ansible-Kubernetes which is an installer for a kubeadm based cluster that hardens it based on the CIS benchmark and DoD Stigs, I needed to verify the enabled plugins. Originally, we included all enabled

DevOps Featured

Implementing a successful DevOps and platform engineering team

I'm starting this post from when the organization was small and just starting out in DevOps all the way through implementing a platform engineering team with self service.

Kubernetes

CIS Hardened Kubernetes

Hardening a Kubernetes cluster against the CIS Benchmark and the U.S. DOD STIG

Docker

GoBGP with health checks

While rebuilding my network, I'm going through the exercise of making everything highly available with GoBGP.

DevOps

Pre-pull images in the docker-in-docker image

We needed to pre-pull images into the upstream docker:dind image. Here's a way of doing this.

Linux

Cloud-init, Hyper-V and a custom image

Today I'm going to go over using Cloud-init with Hyper-V and customizing the base image.

DevOps

MetalLB, Calico, BGP, and LoadBalancer IPs

This post will cover exposing only your LoadBalancer service IP's to your BGP Peer.

DevOps

Automatic DNS configuration with WSL and AnyConnect client

We have the AnyConnect client and are now sending all traffic over the tunnel. This breaks WSL DNS resolution, here's how I worked around it.

C-Sharp

Logging invalid model state requests in Dot Net Core 6

I am working on a new project and needed to log invalid model state requests.

DevOps

Solr and Azure Active Directory

Setting up Solr to use Azure Active Directory Open ID Connect.

Linux

Fixing network issues with a Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes

In this post, I am going to cover how to replace dhcpcd with systemd to resolve some no route to host errors.

DevOps

Disable ArgoCD local admin user

I wanted to disable the admin user in Argo, primarily because I wanted to have all logins go through my SAML provider.

DevOps

ArgoCD and Kube-Prometheus-Stack

Deploying the Kube-Prometheus-Stack through ArgoCD is resulting in a metadata.annotations: Too long error. Here's a workaround.

DevOps

Accessing the Kubernetes API from a pod in Bash

I have a use case for Kubernetes, a pod gets a job to run from a queue, runs it, deletes itself. Here's how I accomplished it in Kubernetes.

DevOps

Running an adhoc pod in Kubernetes

I found myself needing to run an adhoc pod in Kubernetes on a specific node with a taint. Here's how.

DevOps

strongSwan inside of Kubernetes

I needed a VPN and I wanted to run it inside of Kubernetes. Here is how I did it.

3D-Printer

Raspberry Pi, OctoPrint and the NoIR Camera

I'm working on my Raspberry Pi with OctoPrint and I was getting errors about the camera not supporting MJPG.

Kubernetes

OctoPrint and Kubernetes

I wanted to get OctoPrint running in my Kubernetes cluster to manage my 3D printer. Here is one way to accomplish that.

DevOps

Running DHCP in Kubernetes

My continuing venture in to Kubernetes led me to wanting to run DHCP inside of it.

DevOps

Building your own ArgoCD Arm64 image

I like Argo, I like Pi's, I need an Arm64 image of Argo.

DevOps

Installing Azure-CLI on arm64

I have a need to run az on my Pi's. Here's how to install it.

Programming

URI Protocol Handler in Internet Explorer stops working

URI Protocol Handler in Internet Explorer stops working

DevOps

Unable to install optional features in Windows 10

We use an on-prem WSUS server and we were no longer able to install optional features. This is a quick, temporary, workaround so you can get them installed.

DevOps

Work around for AnyConnect client and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

When using the Cisco AnyConnect client and WSL2 you may find that your WSL environment loses network connectivity. Here is a work around.

DevOps

Setting a default Azure Container Registry name

Tired of typing the registry name every time you run az acr? So was I.