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I ran into an issue where having a local disk wasn’t the best solution and decided it was time to migrate to a Google Cloud Storage Bucket. This particular situation has to do with Artifactory where I was using a PersistentVolume (gcePersistentDisk) and now wanted to use a storage bucket (the right way). I had […]
SonarQube is an open sourced code quality scanning tool. You can use a helm chart, but at the time of writing this blog I didn’t see a Google SQL proxy option. I ended up using helm template to generate the majority of the yaml files and added the Google SQL proxy parts myself. https://github.com/Oteemo/charts/tree/master/charts/sonarqube Create Database […]
Updated: September 23, 2020 https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack Add Repo helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/ helm repo update Create custom-values.yaml GKE uses kubeDNS by default, so I enabled it. I created persistent disks and added an Internal Load Balancer by adding a google specific annotation. cat <<EOF > custom-values.yaml coreDns: enabled: false kubeDns: […]
This is going to be a quick and to the point blog. As many of you know (if you’re here at this point, I know you know), Google Cloud SQL backups are directly linked to the instance itself. WHAT!? That means if the instance is deleted, so are your backups. As a DevOps engineer, this […]
Why use Sealed Secrets? Sealed Secrets provides a mechanism to encrypt a Secret object so that it is safe to store in a private or public repository. https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets How it works Sealed Secrets comprises the following components A controller deployed to cluster A CLI tool called kubeseal A custom resource definition (CRD) called SealedSecret Upon startup, […]