Monthly Archives: February 2018

ExternalDNS is a relatively new Kubernetes Incubator project that makes Ingresses and Services available via DNS. It currently supports AWS Route 53 and Google Cloud DNS. There are several similar tools available with varying features and capabilities like route53-kubernetes, Mate, and the DNS controller from Kops. While it is not there yet, the goal is for ExternalDNS to include all of the functionality of the other options by 1.0. In… Read More »

AWS Keymaster is a simple utility that allows you to import your own personal key pair into all AWS regions with a single command. Distributed as a single binary with no dependencies, AWS Keymaster is easy to deploy and run. It is also available as a Docker image. For example, to import your personal key as a… Read More »

Kops is a relatively new tool that can be used to deploy production-ready Kubernetesclusters on AWS. It has the ability to create a highly-available cluster spanning multiple availability zones and supports a private networking topology. By default, Kops will create all of the required resources on AWS for you — the EC2 instances, the VPC and subnets, the required DNS entries… Read More »

Still with the alpha/beta features but not that much (it’s been here since v1.1), this week we’ll focus on the Ingress resource that makes publishing services a lot easier. First we’ll see what Ingress and Ingress Controller are then we’ll demo with an awesome cloud native reverse proxy that implements the Ingress feature. To stay swag, we’ll throw in automatic and… Read More »

A lot of people seem confused about how Ingress works in Kubernetes and questions come up almost daily in Slack. It’s not their fault, either — unfortunately the Kubernetes documentation is pretty weak in this area. Updating the documentation itself is probably a better use of time than writing this, I just prefer this …medium. I’ll try to… Read More »