In this post I will go through the steps needed to deploy a Kubernetes RKE2 cluster with Rancher on top of it. I used Terraform to define the infrastructure resource on Azure and Ansible to configure RKE2, Rancher and its dependencies. NOTE: this project is a demo environment and should not be used in production.
Argocd Workflows is an orchestrator of parallel job on Kubernetes.
I was looking for a simple project to get my hands dirty with Go again and I came up with the HTTP proxy server. At a first glance, it seems a trivial project: create an HTTP server read the HTTP method, the URL, and the HOST from the request send an identical request to the target server.
Terraform workspaces are a feature of some backends to associate many terraform states to the same configuration. It is convenient to have a workspace where you can try changes to infrastructure. When the changes have been tested, you can switch to the production workspace and apply the changes.
Changing the Service type from NodePort to LoadBalancer and viceversa is useful depending on the cluster you are working on. If you are doing experiments in a local development cluster, like Kind, you don’t have a real load balancer in front of your cluster and you need to expose your services externally using a NodePort service. On contrary, if you are w...