Category: Cloud

Replace Flannel with Weave Net in Kubernetes


The major reason that I replaced Flannel with Weave Net as the Kubernetes CNI is that Flannel does not support multicast. I did not realize it until my test Confluence DC cluster became dysfunctional. There are two Confluence nodes in the Confluence DC cluster. Each one is a pod, they are working fine when they … Continue reading Replace Flannel with Weave Net in Kubernetes →

Use Glusterfs for Dynamic Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes


I recently setup a single node Kubernetes cluster on-premise for testing Jira and Confluence Data Center (which I will write a seperate blog later). In this blog, I want to share how I use Glusterfs as the shared storage which supports dynamic volume provisioning. Traditionally, to use persistent volume (PV) in a pod, you have … Continue reading Use Glusterfs for Dynamic Volume Provisioning in Kubernetes →

Port Forwarding over AWS Session Manager


Continue with the Session Manager over PrivateLink, another good use case for session manager is port forwarding. Here is a quick demo: First, login into the EC2 instance with session manager to install a Apache server # Install Apachesudo yum -y install httpd # Start Apache web serversudo systemctl start httpd # Ensure port 80 … Continue reading Port Forwarding over AWS Session Manager →

Use AWS SSM Session Manager Over PrivateLink


AWS SSM Session Manager is a great addition to the existing AWS services, simply speaking it provides a secured, manageable and easier way to access the instance inside the VPC, and more (e.g. port forwarding). There are two ways to use session manager: over Internet vs over PrivateLink. Over Internet: The instance communicates to the … Continue reading Use AWS SSM Session Manager Over PrivateLink →