Craig NewtoninGeek CultureBuilding a Kubernetes cluster on AWS from scratchThese days rolling out a Kubernetes cluster on any cloud provider is quite simple and easy, but not always cost effective. Us as DevOps/Ops…Jul 9, 20222Jul 9, 20222
Craig NewtoninThe StartupHow I passed the INE Certified Cloud Associate (ICCA) ExamThe ICCA certification courseware introduces you to the foundational and fundamental aspects of the cloud, and not just one specific…Mar 4, 20224Mar 4, 20224
Craig NewtoninThe StartupKubernetes on AWS — gotcha when using EFSI was happily migrating a lot of applications over to EKS when my pods went into an Init state. Panic set in and I was having a look…Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Craig NewtoninThe StartupHow to run a Kubernetes cron job manually as a one time jobI recently had to create a cron job in Kubernetes that would run a data archive script that would archive the immutable MySQL table data…May 28, 20202May 28, 20202
Craig NewtoninThe StartupPublic and Private Istio Ingress Gateways on AWSBy default, istio creates a service with a publicly accessible classic load balancer (ELB). However, there are times where we only want…Aug 30, 20192Aug 30, 20192
Craig NewtoninThe StartupHow to fix — Kubernetes namespace deleting stuck in Terminating stateSo AWS launched their hosted Kubernetes called EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) last year and we merrily jumped onboard and deployed most…Jul 12, 201914Jul 12, 201914
Craig NewtoninThe StartupKubernetes with Minikube and switching Docker environmentsThe popularity of Kubernetes as a container orchestration service has been growing at an amazing rate. Developers are flocking to the…Jun 8, 20192Jun 8, 20192
Craig NewtonHow to assign an EIP to an AWS NLB in KubernetesOut of the box Kubernetes has no support for assigning an EIP to an AWS Network Load Balancer. There is currently a pull request for this…Jun 7, 20191Jun 7, 20191