The Full Stack: Apps, AI, DevOps, Infrastructure
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…
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…
This is a pretty confusing title but the gist of it is this: We have a service, let’s suppose its a database, running internally. We can get to it from our Kubernetes cluster, but resources outside of Kubernetes can’t get to it. And the only way we can get to Kubernetes services is through a…
Previously I had installed wordpress pods on Kubernetes and it made it very easy to administer and add multiple sites for clients. However, as time went on they started getting more aggressive in the different themes they were uploading. To solve the problem required configuration changes in two places. The Ingress Controller The PHP file…
As I’ve been dealing with streaming data one of the architectural decisions I’ve had to make is how to run periodic batch jobs on the data as it comes in. In the case of web traffic, it is logged into a database. What my batch jobs do is take the data from the MariaDB MySQL…