Kubernetes

How to restart Kubernetes Pods with kubectl

Anyone who has used Kubernetes for an extended period of time will know that things don’t always go as smoothly as you’d like. In production, unexpected things happen, and Pods can crash or fail in some unforeseen way. When this happens, you need a reliable way to restart

Divine Odazie
Divine Odazie
Kubernetes

Kubernetes Architecture Explained: Worker Nodes in a Cluster

When you deploy Kubernetes, you get a cluster. And the cluster you get upon deployment would consist of one or more worker machines (virtual or physical) called nodes for you to run your containerized applications in pods. For each worker node to run containerized applications, it must contain a container

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Divine Odazie
Kubernetes

How to run Minikube on an Apple M1 chip without Docker Desktop

Docker Desktop failed me, and at the time (13th July 2022) of writing this article, Hyperkit, VirtualBox, and other hypervisors specified here don’t work on the Apple M1 chip. Weeks ago, while using Docker Desktop, it suddenly got stuck in a start-stop loop. I spent hours trying to resolve

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Divine Odazie
Kubernetes

Persisting Data in Kubernetes with Volumes

Persisting Data in Kubernetes is complex. And this is because though Pods have readable and writable disk space, the disk space still depends on the Pod’s lifecycle. When building applications on Kubernetes, there are use cases where developers would want storage for their Pods that doesn’t depend on

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Divine Odazie
Kubernetes