With the official retirement of the community-supported Ingress NGINX controller on March 31, 2026, the Kubernetes networking landscape has reached a turning point. If your organization is still running Ingress NGINX, you are no longer receiving security patches-leaving your clusters exposed to known vulnerabilities such as CVE-2025-1974 (IngressNightmare). While there are many alternatives, Istio has...
Managing secrets across dozens of websites and APIs in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) can be a nightmare if you’re still using static credentials. Hardcoded secrets, long-lived keys, and manual rotations increase the risk of exposure and slow down deployments. On Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), we’ve evolved with the Secrets Store CSI Driver, Azure Key Vault,...
Pre-requisite InfluxDB installed and admin user created Influx CLI installed on computer Create Config influx config create -a --username-password ADMINUSER -n myconfig -u INFLUXDBURL Enter Admin password at prompt Replace the following:ORG: Organization name for the new userADMINUSER: Username of the admin userINFLUXDBURL: URL for Influx DB Create User in InfluxDB To create user, run...
As you may or may not know services with Kubernetes do not natively support ICMP protocol but there is a way to get around this limitation with load balancer services on Amazon EKS. Internet Control Message Protoco (ICMP) The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is...
The root issue for Kubernetes: System.IO.IOException inotify instances error is caused by the Kubernetes cluster running out of inotify resources at the OS level. The resource limit for the inotify resources is defined by “fs.inotify.max_user_watches” and “fs.inotify.max_user_instances” environment variables. You can view the limits on the Kubernetes cluster by executing into a pod of your...
ETCD on Kubernetes with High Availability In this blog, we will cover how to maintain an Etcd on Kubernetes with High Availability. We will be installing Etcd v3.5.4 on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), but a similar setup should work for other Kubernetes clusters as well. Prerequisites Kubernetes 1.19+ Helm 3.2.0+ Clone and create a...