Setting up reverse proxies on nginx ingress controller on Kubernetes

In another installment of stupid Kubernetes routing tricks I bring you the following problem: So I figured the thing to do is to just use Kubernetes as a reverse proxy to send traffic to Webflow. So that’s what I did. I broke this up into two different sections. First, let’s tackle the webflow issue. This…

Increasing the size of persistent volumes

My coworker and I needed to increase the amount of days that Prometheus keeps logs from 15 days to around 90 days. This meant that we wanted to increase our storage, or our persistent volume. We use the kube-prometheus-stack helm chart for installing helm and have customized it to have persistent storage. It turned out…

Kubernetes Cron Jobs vs. AWS Lambdas

I’ve always stressed that it should never be Kubernetes or Serverless, but rather: What is the right tool for the job. Both technologies are great and both technologies carry their own baggage. This week as I was working on some design and thought about its implementation I had to decide whether I should add a…