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This post picks up where the Flux Operator blog left off, diving deeper to demonstrate the power of Sveltos and Flux for Kubernetes add-on deployment and management. Join the club as we explore what next-level Kubernetes deployments and management look like in action!
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Learn how to install and use the Flux Operator in a Kubernetes environment and connect it to an on-prem GitLab instance.
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Learn how to integrate Cilium, Gateway API, cert-manager, let's encrypt and Cloudflare to dynamically provision TLS certificates for ArgoCD.
Are you ready to simplify how your Platform team spins up and down development environments while improving DevX? In this post, we demonstrate how CAPI, Sveltos, and Cyclops work together to automatically create Kubernetes environments while allowing developers to interact and manage their applications in a user-friendly environment. It is not magic, it is the power of Sveltos combined with the right tooling!
Another amazing Civo Navigate conference came to an end. In today's blog post, I wanted to share some highlights from the event. I had the chance to present Sveltos and how templating alongside Validate Health can be used to deploy and update different Kubernetes add-ons and applications effortlessly.
Below, I will dive into the key highlights from the conference, provide resources about tooling I found interesting and last but not least, provide more details about the Sveltos presentation!
How easy is it to handle Day-2 operations with existing CI/CD tooling? Sveltos provides the ability to perform not only Day-1 operations but also helps platform administrators, tenant administrators and other operators with Day-2 operations. For example, we can use the HealthCheck and the ClusterHealthCheck features to not only watch the health of a cluster but also collect information from the managed clusters and display them in the management cluster.
In today's blog post, we will cover a way of deploying Cilium as our CNI alongside Cilium Tetragon for observability. We will then continue with a simple TracingPolicy deployment to capture socket connections and then use Sveltos to display the tracing results back to the management cluster.
The goal of the demonstration is to showcase how Sveltos can be used for different Kubernetes cluster operations based on the use case at hand.
In previous posts, we outlined how Sveltos allows Platform and tenant administrators to streamline Kubernetes applications and add-on deployments to a fleet of clusters. In today's blog post, we will take a step further and demonstrate how easy it is to target and update a subset of resources targeted by multiple configurations. By multiple configurations, we refer to the Sveltos ClusterProfile or Profile Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). The demonstration focuses on day-2 operations as we provide a way to update and/or remove resources without affecting production operations.
This functionality is called tiers. Sveltos tiers provide a solution for managing the deployment priority when resources are targeted by multiple configurations. Tiers are easily integrated into existing ClusterProfile/Profile definitions alongside defining the deployment order control and straightforwardly override behaviour.
Today, we will cover the case of updating the Cilium CNI in a subnet of clusters with the label set to tier:zone2 without affecting the monitoring capabilities defined in the same ClusterProfile/Profile.
Sveltos is on tour! Another non-technical post describing my experience at the OSSummit Europe 2024. Apart from outlining my experience, the post will include useful resources on open-source projects I learned during the event.
About Sveltos, Gianluca Mardente and I had the chance to talk at the conference and present Sveltos and how it is used to deploy and manage different Kubernetes applications and add-ons in a Multi-Cloud setup.
In the sections below, I will outline my highlights of the conference and what I have learned, while later on, I will describe what we presented about Sveltos and where to locate the required resources.
Today's post will not be as technical as previous ones however, I wanted to share my experience at the Civo Navigate in Berlin. I had the chance to talk at the conference, present Sveltos and how it can be used to painlessly deploy different Kubernetes applications and monitoring capabilities on a fleet of clusters.
Apart from that, I attended many different sessions covering relevant topics (Cloud native, Security, Thought Leadership, AI) and meet fellow enthusiasts.
In the sections below, I will outline some of my highlights and afterwards provide an introduction to the Sveltos presentation alongside the useful resources.
In a previous post, we covered how to create an RKE2 cluster on Azure Cloud using the cloud-free credits from the Rancher UI. As this is a convenient approach to get started with Rancher, in today's post, we will demonstrate how to use OpenTofu to automate the deployment.
OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform. It is an open-source project, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation. If you want to get familiar with what OpenTofu is and how to get started, check out the link here.
Additionally, we will demonstrate how easy it is to customise the Cilium configuration and enable kube-vip for LoadBalancer services from the HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) definition.
