Kubernetes has quickly become the industry standard for managing applications in the cloud. What was once seen as a complex technology is now part of the basics for companies looking to grow and scale their digital operations. These days, setting up a Kubernetes cluster is fairly straightforward, and many teams can get up and running in no time. However, just because it’s easy to set up doesn’t mean it’s always done right.
Read articleKubernetes has quickly become the industry standard for managing applications in the cloud. What was once seen as a complex technology is now part of the basics for companies looking to grow and scale their digital operations. These days, setting up a Kubernetes cluster is fairly straightforward, and many teams can get up and running in no time. However, just because it’s easy to set up doesn’t mean it’s always done right.
Automating DNS Management with External-DNS, FluxCD, and Cloudflare Managing DNS records can invole a lot of manual work. If you’ve ever had to manually copy and paste IP addresses to create DNS records, or tried to rely on wildcard entries that point to a single load balancer IP or CNAME, you know the pain. It often goes something like this: you run kubectl to grab the load balancer IP, then hop over to your Terraform DNS repo, make the necessary changes, create a Merge Request, wait for the review, and only after all that, you finally get the DNS record updated.
On behalf of Jeroen Veldhorst and myself, I am pleased to announce that as of July, we have become a member of the Dutch Cloud Community (DCC)! This is an important milestone for our company, and we would like to share why this is such a valuable step, fully aligned with our mission.
One awesome tool that I got to learn a great deal more about during KubeCon EU is Linkerd 2. It’s simple to use and looks really promising. This post is about setting it up and the things I encountered during that process.